introduction: due to the whole network of polyposis registers worldwide and early prophylactic treatment, survival of familial adenomatosis (fap) patients is improved. extracolonic manifestations are remarkable feature of fap. two extracolonic manifestations (duodenal adenomatosis, leading duodenal cancer and desmoid tumours) play a very important role in the reasons of death in polyposis popul...

objectives we aimed to perform the first such study to measure the injury incidence, severity and type as the first step in creating a badminton injury prevention program. patients and methods a prospective, longitudinal survey was conducted between april 2012 and march 2013 with 133 national tournament-level badminton players from junior high school to university in japan with the teams’ physi...

spinal cord injury (sci) is a devastating condition with enormous personal and social costs. to develop preventive strategies, the determination of epidemiological features and causes is required. due to iran's high incidence of road traffic crash (rtc) injuries, epidemiologic data concerning specific causes of sci may assist in reducing this national health dilemma. in a retrospective stu...

background and purpose: tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that is commonly caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. as kurdistan province is close to iraq (risky due to political instability in recent years), the bane city had high interaction with iraq, so the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of tuberculosis in bane (kurdistan) between 2003 and 2010. materials and methods: thi...

background: iraq fought three wars in three consecutive decades, iran-iraq war (1980-1988), persian gulf war in 1991, and the iraq’s war in 2003. in the nineties of the last century and up to the present time, there have been anecdotal reports of increase in cancer in ninawa as in all provinces of iraq, possibly as a result of exposure to depleted uranium used by american troops in the last t...

background and objective: in iran, prenatal chlamydia and gonorrhea screening of pregnant women and neonatal eye prophylaxis are not routine practice. the present research aimed to identify bacterial agents of neonatal conjunctivitis. materials & methods: a cross sectional study was conducted on all babies born over a period from april 2007 to april 2008 in hajar hospital of shahrekord uni...

current study determined the overall incidence, common causes as well as main predictors of this final diagnosis among neonates admitted to a rural district hospital in iran. this study was conducted on 699 neonates who were candidate for admission to the nicu. study population was categorized in the case group, including patients exposed to final diagnosis of neonatal seizures and the control ...

conclusions cardiovascular and respiratory problems mortality, as well as referrals to hospitals due to such diseases, was increased since 2010 till 2012. in 2013, however, the death toll was less than what had been in 2012, in spite of more concentration. the reason is that ahvaz had 160 days with concentration more than 400 μg/m3 in 2013 whereas this was 198 days in 2012. also, every 10 μg.m-...

conclusions this study confirmed a relatively high incidence of nssis among hcws. inadequate occupational health and safety measures such as lack of training on occupational health hazards and safety issues, absence of written protocols for reporting nssis, and lack of safety instructions were associated with nssis. effective training programs and raising the awareness of hcws to reduce unsafe ...