Objectives: Diagonal ear lobe crease (ELC) has been introduced as a diagnostic physical sign for coronary artery disease (CAD) and the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between ELC and CAD in Iranians. Methodology: In a crosssectional study, 106 consecutive patients, referred from cardiologists for angiography, were studied for presence of ELC and CAD in four academic hospitals ...

OBJECTIVES The aim was (1) to investigate the association between education and smoking status (current, former and never-smoking) among non-western immigrants in Norway and (2) examine if these associations fit the pattern predicted by the model of the cigarette epidemic. DESIGN Data came from the Oslo Health Study and the Oslo Immigrant Health study (2000-2002). The first included all Oslo ...

Background: Knowing the human platelet angens (HPA) and genes frequency in different populaons is important not only for populaon studies but also for clinical transfusion pracce. HPA genes frequency in Iran is not evaluated, so we invesgated the HPA-2, HPA-3, and HPA-5 frequency and their polymorphism. Materials and Methods: DNA from 120 Iranians (99 Iranian blood donors and 21 paents wi...

The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing personality traits among athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students studying at Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. 280 athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students (130 Iranians, 40 Syrians, 80 Afghans, and 30 Yemenis) were picked using Stratified Random Sampling method, and they completed NEO-FFI (a shortened form of revised bi...

BACKGROUND Social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. The aim of study was to determine domains and sub-domains of individual social health of Iranians. METHODS This study was carried out with a qualitative approach, using thematic content analysis. Twenty five experts participated in interviews, using individual semi-structured interviews between November 2010 and Ju...

Country-of-origin is one of the most crucial aspects a brand's success. has significant impact on how brands are perceived, especially in terms promise quality they deliver. While different countries have announced vaccines, there been global hesitation to buy into those claims. Successful adoption successful vaccine critical re-launching travel and leisure economy. In this article, we discuss ...