background: this article was to present the sampling and measurements methods and the main preliminary findings of the kercadr cohort study (first round) in an urban and peri-urban setting, kerman, southeastern iran2009-11. method: 5900 (3238 female) people aged between 15 to 75 years were recruited in the household survey by non-proportional to size one-stage cluster sampling. trained internal...

Much adult physical inactivity research ignores early-life factors from which later influences may originate. In the 1958 British birth cohort (followed from 1958 to 2008), leisure-time inactivity, defined as activity frequency of less than once a week, was assessed at ages 33, 42, and 50 years (n = 12,776). Early-life factors (at ages 0-16 years) were categorized into 3 domains (i.e., physical...

BACKGROUND Since the 1930s, the environment has become increasingly obesogenic, leading to rising rates of adiposity and socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity. Building on studies comparing body mass index (BMI) for cohorts born over a period of 20 years, we examine the social patterning of BMI and central adiposity for three cohorts born over a 40-year period. METHODS Using data from the W...

Many complicated mechanisms are involved in brain ischemia and the role of inflammatory factors in the progression of post-ischemic injury is inevitable. In present study, anti-inflammatory effect of berberine has been investigated in reperfusion injury after acute ischemic stroke. Male Wistar rats weighing 250-270 gr were randomly divided into four cohorts: healthy rats (control, n=20), sham-o...

the purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences in value of children between the 1960s, 1970s, after 1980 birth cohort, and identifying the factors affecting. the data for this study are drawn from a survey in semnan province in 2012. information is related to 405 married women aged 15-49 years. the result shows that the highest score of the children value belonged to the 1960 birth...

there are limited documents about hiv patients switched to second-line antiretroviral therapy (art) in resource-limited countries. we aimed to assess the efficacy of second-line art for hiv patients following first-line art failure. this was a cohort study of hiv/aids patients with first-line art treatment failure switched to second-line art between january 2004 and march 2014, who followed for...

objective: there are various attempts to confirm variables that could predict postpartum depression in advance. this study determined antenatal risk factors for postpartum depression in women at risk of developing this disorder. methods: a prospective cohort study was conducted with 2279 eligible women who attended at mazandaran province’ primary health centers from 32-42 weeks of pregnancy to ...

objective: bipolar disorder is strongly associated with suicidal ideations, attempts and commissions. although several studies have been conducted on suicide risk factors in patients with bipolar disorder worldwide, a comprehensive study has not been reported from iran. methods: patients with bipolar disorder type i, hospitalized in iran hospital of psychiatry since may 2008 to august 2011 were...