Before 1987, iodine deficiency was not considered an issue of major importance in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Progress began with a systematic national study of goitre and other iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) in the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1983. Following a major review of the prevalence of IDD in member states, Guidelines for national programmes for the cont...

This descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken to describe the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors in elderly people in Amirkola, Islamic Republic of Iran. A total of 1019 people aged 60+ years were assessed using a standard questionnaire and a review of medical records. The most common chronic diseases were cardiovascular disease (29.5%), digestive disorders (2...

Gonu, the second tropical cyclone of the 2007 northern Indian ocean cyclone season, affected Oman, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and the Islamic Republic of Iran. This report examines the effects of cyclone Gonu in the Islamic Republic of Iran where it approached on its path on 6 June 2007 and reviews the actions taken before, during and after the cyclone. The incident highlighted the need...

Old-age disability has become a public health concern. This study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of disability and its related factors among the elderly population in Kashan city, Islamic Republic of Iran. A cross-sectional study was conducted on a multistage random sample of 350 elderly people. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II was used as the disability...

1Department of Internal Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Endocrine and Metabolism Research Centre, Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 11/04/02; accepted: 02/02/03 ABSTRACT To assess the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with hyperhomocysteinaemia (hyper-Hcy) and hyperlipidaemia, we performed a case–contr...

1Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, School of Health, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to S.M.T. Ayatollahi: [email protected]). Received: 18/09/02; accepted: 07/10/03 ABSTRACT With increasing life expectancy, menopause is an increasingly important aspect of women’s health. We recorded the age at natural menopause among women...

Some of the papers produced in this stage were written by international collaboration with Barnabas Bede, from DigiPen Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Redmond, WA, USA, Marek Gagolewski and Przemyslaw Grzegorzewska from Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Technical University of Warsaw, Luciano Ste...

Iran and blogging. Most of us, when encountering the relationship between the two, would probably think about conservatism and the extent of repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Arrests of some prominent Iranian bloggers, such as Hussein Derakshan, popularised through the Western media would also spring to mind. But not many of us would know that Persian is one of the most used languages...

An integrated simulation-based fuzzy regression-time series algorithm for electricity consumption estimation with non-stationary data Ali Azadeh a , Morteza Saberi b c d & Anahita Gitiforouz a a Department of Industrial Engineering, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 11365-4563, Iran b Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Tafresh, Tafresh, Iran c In...

At the turn of the 20th century, according to estimations, the population of Iran was around 10 million. In 1933, it had increased to 13 million, in 1976, to 34 million and in 1986 to 49 million. By 1996, the Iranian population had reached 60 million, a more than six-fold increase within a century. The last three decades of the country’s history have been marked by major political changes, the ...