Consanguineous marriages are practiced worldwide but very common as social characteristic norms of the tribal society Pakistan and have reached (~63%). Couples married within blood relatives, inheriting different genetic disorders including epilepsy in their offspring.
 Objectives: The present work is ever first attempt to reaffirm association between disease (ED) consanguinity Tribal Soci...

background it seems that there is a relationship between consanguinity and profound hearing loss but there is little data about the association of consanguinity and hearing loss in iran. objectives the aim of this study is to demonstrate the causes of profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss among iranian samples who are candidates for cochlear implantation. methods this study was retrospe...

how to cite this article: najafi r, hashemipour m, mostofizadeh n, ghazavi mr, nasiri j, shahsanai a, famori f, najafi f, moafi m. demographic and clinical findings in pediatric patients affected by organic acidemia. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2): 74-81. abstract objective metabolic disorders, which involve many different organs, can be ascribed to enzyme deficiency or dysfunction and...

consanguinity has been a long-standing social habit among iranians. the effect of consanguinity on early death (stillbirth plus infant death) and pre-reproductive mortality (death before age 15 years) was studied in an ecological study in 10 provinces of iran (including, boosheher, chaharmahal-o-bakhtiari, east azarbaijan, ilam, fars, kashan, kerman, kermanshah, markazi, semnan, and yazd). the ...

The cross-sectional study was based on the Primary Health Care Centers among Arab patients aged 18–55 years from January 2009 to December 2010. Of the sample size of 1,491 subjects, 1,184 patients agreed to participate in this study (79.4%). Institutional review board approval was obtained from the Hamad Medical Corporation for conducting this research. The subjects who did not agree to partici...