inflammation plays a major role in coronary artery disease (cad). currently, it is unclear, whether cytomegalovirus (cmv) infection is associated with the risk of the atherosclerosis. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti- cmv antibodies in cad and non cad patients undergoing artery bypass surgery. sera from 157 patients who underwent coronary angiography were tested for...

The article by Pan et al. in the May issue shows that the prevalence of myopia is very low in adults from two ethnic groups—Han Chinese and Yi (one of China’s national minority groups) living in the same rural area in Yunnan Province. The very low prevalence of myopia in both groups shows that myopia is not inevitable in East Asian populations, but requires exposure to environmental risk factor...

in this study, we aimed to conduct a meta-analysis on the results of eligible studies to estimate the prevalence of asthma, copd, and chronic bronchitis in iran. international and iranian databases including pubmed, scopus, web of science, iranmedex, and scientific information database (sid) were searched for population–based studies that had reported the prevalence of asthma and copd from 1990...