organic nitrates are commonly used in angina pectoris and ischemic cardiomyopathy. in order to optimize their effectiveness and patient convenience, several aspects must be observed. adequate doses, suitable dosage forms and asymmetric pattern of usage to prevent the nitrate tolerance are some factors that a physician must be familiar with. the objective of the present study was to define the p...

175 words) Using data from the 2002 Iran Fertility Transition Survey (IFTS) collected in four Iranian provinces, the authors examine changes in elapsed time between marriage and first pregnancy. Across 1971-2000 marriage cohorts, a u-shaped pattern is observed. This pattern can be explained by: i) a monotonic decline in conception interval length possibly associated with a shift from arranged t...

Several studies have investigated the relation between benign breast diseases (BBD) and food intake. However, dietary patterns of these patients have not been taken into consideration up to now. The aim of this study is to determine the association between dietary patterns and BBD. In this case-control study, ninety-six patients with BBD and seventy controls were selected from women attending t...

Background: It is well recognized that different patients respond in different ways to medications. The inter-individual variations are greater than the intera-individual variations, a finding consistent with the notion that inheritance is a determinant of drug responses. The recent identification of genetic polymorphisms in drug-metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters led to the hypothesis ...

background: web of science (wos) is an online academic citation index provided by thomson reuters which supplies valuable bibliometric information for comparing impact of specific author, organization, or country in science production. the aim of this study was to compare toxicology publications of iran and turkey indexed in wos from bibliometric point of view. methods: the wos database was que...

Abstract The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality-Self-Report (CAPP-SR) is the most recent operationalization CAPP model which uses 33 symptoms to conceptualize psychopathic personality disorder. In current study, we sought examine cross-cultural utility CAPP-SR in an Iranian sample. Study 1, translated into Persian and assessed linguistic convergence between original English ve...

In this study we explored the most important topics of acculturation experiences among Iranian refugees in the Netherlands, using the Self-Confrontation Method (Hermans & Hermans-Jansen, 1995). We discussed the Dialogical Self Theory reffering to the multiple selves of people who have to deal with different cultures. Ewing (1990) and Hermans and Kempen (1993) argued that a person could have con...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the features of Iranian nursing journals, specifically the subject areas used in articles, study designs, sampling methods, international collaboration of Iranian nursing scholars, specialty and academic rank of authors, and the most frequently contributing academic institutions in articles. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze the content of the ar...