The incidence rate of gastric cancer in western countries has shown a remarkable decline in recent years while it is still the most common cancer among men in Iran. Ardabil, a North Western province, was found to have the highest rate of GC in Iran and one of the highest gastric cardia cancer rates in the world. We used the most recent data from Ardabil cancer registry to update on the incidenc...

aFaculty of pharmacy, International Aras Branch, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. bDrug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz. cDepartment of Microbiology, Bonab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bonab, Iran. dStudent Research Committee, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran. Copyright © 2017 by School of Pharmacy Shaheed Behes...

BACKGROUND Ardabil, a Northwestern province of Iran, was found to have the highest rate of gastric cancer (GC) in the country (ASRs = 51.8/100,000 for males and 24.9/100,000 for females) and one of the highest gastric cardia cancer rates in the world. The aim of the present study was to assess the associations of the cagA and babA2 status of Helicobacter pylori with GC in the Ardabil population...

Background and Purpose. Trauma is the leading cause of death for youth in developing countries. Given the prevalence of head trauma (HT) in society and its complication and burden, the epidemiologic study of head trauma is necessary and is the main aim of this study. Materials and Methods. This retrospective population-based survey describes the epidemiology of head injury in a defined populati...

Background and aims: many countries use different strategies for example downsizing in order to optimal use of resources and reduce costs. Therefore, this study was implemented to evaluate of different downsizing methods in public hospitals of Tabriz and Ardabil cities. Methods: This study was a descriptive study that was conducted in 2015 and 2016 in order to identify of downsizing methods in ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to detect the genotype of Fasciola spp. in Meshkin-Shahr, Ardabil Province, northwestern Iran in different hosts using PCR-RFLP. METHODS The parasite hosts included cattle, and sheep. Overall, 70 adult flukes from livers of slaughtered animals were collected from the abattoirs of aforementioned area. The included 35 samples from infected sheep and 35 sampl...

Evaluation of Professional Ethics and Its Facilitating Factors in Ardabil Khalkhal Nurses 2020

Brain hydatid cyst constitutes one of the leading causes of cranial mass in the endemic region, especially among the children. Symptoms of the disease are associated with rising of intracranial pressure and focal neurological deficit. Surgical excision of the cyst is essential to treatment. Here we present a 19 yr-old male livings in Ardabil, northwest of Iran, referred to Neurosurgery Clinic i...

BACKGROUND Upper gastrointestinal cancer is the most common cancer in Ardabil Province, North-West of Iran, accounting for more than 50% of all cancer deaths in this area. We conducted this study to determine the present survival rate of patients with esophageal and gastric cancers before launching interventional studies. METHODS A prospective follow-up study of 420 biopsy-proven patients (12...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. (Corresponding author) MD, FACMT, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 2. MD, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Ardabil Universit...