1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 2Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Reference Laboratory), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 4Department...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Pooneh Rahimi, RouhAllah Vahabpour, Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi, Syed Mehdi Sadat, Nader Howaizi, Ehsan Mostafavi, Ali Eslamifar, Vida Fallahian 1 Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, 2WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, Pasteur Institute of I...

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran. 2. Neuroscience Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. 4. School of Computer Engineering, Iran Un...

1. Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran 2. Dental Research Center, Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Orthodontic Department, Dental Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 4. Molecular Immunology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 5. Nature of Gene Mutat...

1 Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3 Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 4 Student’s Research Committee, Tabriz University ...

A Decade of Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialty Program in Iran, Achievements and Challenges Ramin Kordi, and Navid Moghadam Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Vice President of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Tehran, IR Iran Department of Sports Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding auth...

The most common method for defining obesity is based on BMI (i.e., a person’s weight [kilograms] divided by the square of his or her height [meters]). The World Health Organization (WHO) considers a BMI between 20 and 25 kg/m2 as normal weight, a BMI between 25 and 30 kg/m2 as overweight, and a BMI of 30 kg/m2 as obese. The National Institutes of Health defined morbid obesity as a BMI ≥ 35 kg/m...

BACKGROUND Several reports have shown an increased prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in obese subjects in community-based studies. To better understand the role of the GI tract in obesity, and because there are limited clinic-based studies, we documented the prevalence of upper and lower GI symptoms in morbidly obese individuals in a clinic setting. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study w...