BACKGROUND Body mass index (BMI) before pregnancy and weight gaining during pregnancy affect infant birth weight and are associated with unfavorable pregnancy outcomes. The aim of this study was to describe the weight gain pattern of Iranian pregnant women according to the BMI status at the beginning of pregnancy. METHODS This was a longitudinal cross sectional study. A total of 500 pregnant ...

Babak Mostaghaci1,2, Arash Hanifi3, Brigitta Loretz1 and Claus-Michael Lehr1,4 1Dept. of Drug Delivery (DDEL), Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infectious Research (HZI) Saarland University, Saarbruecken 2Biomaterials Group, Materials Engineering Department Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 3Tissue Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab, Bioeng...

1 Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4 Iranian National Center of Addiction Studies (IN...

1Department of Pediatrics, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 2Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 3Health Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 4Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Ilam Universi...

Plants are the most common bioindicatorsused in air quality biomonitoring studies because they are immobile and they have more sensitive to the most prevalent air pollutants than humans and animals. To identify the concentrations and sources of heavy metals in ornamental plants of Isfahan landscape, samples of leaves and soil around Pinuseldarica and Nerium oleander were collected at different ...

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IR Iran Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran Corresponding author: Mohammad Taghi Goodarzi, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, ...

Abdolrazagh Hashemi-Shahraki, Parvin Heidarieh, Samira Azarpira, Hasan Shojaei, Mohammad Hashemzadeh and Enrico Tortoli Author affiliation: Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran (A. Hashemi-Shahraki, S. Azarpira, M. Hashemzadeh); Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran (P. Heidarieh); Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran (H. Shojaei); and San Raffaele Scientific In...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Publi...