Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged Iranians yesterday to rejoice in their final break with the “ world-devouring plunder’’ America, and the Tehran gov­ ernment began mobilizing the people for a “ holy war” of belt-tightening and possible rationing to grapple with econ­ omic woes. President Abolhassan BaniSadr declared there was “ no reason to worry” about the U.S. econom ic em bargo ag a in st I...

OBJECTIVES Robust scientific evidence exists about the role of non-conventional risk factors in type 2 diabetes worldwide. The current epidemiological pattern of the disease in Iran suggests a precipitating role for these non-conventional risk factors. This review was performed to examine the research evidence suggesting a higher prevalence of non-conventional type 2 diabetes risk factors in Ir...

Geographic or ethnic differences in the occurrence of disease often provide insights into causes of disease and possible opportunities for disease prevention. A wide variation on the incidence and prevalence of PsA was reported in different countries. The prevalence in China was similar to the rest of the world, whereas the incidence and prevalence of PsA was much lower in Japan. Among patients...

BACKGROUND Social health is a dimension of health affected and interacts with other dimensions. Considering the rate of world changes, foresighting the influence of future events and possible trends on social health could bring about advantageous information for social policy makers. METHODS This is a qualitative study of futurology with cross impact analysis approach. After studying possible...

Genetic polymorphisms have been shown to be involved in dopaminergic neurotransmission. This may influence susceptibility to Parkinson's disease (PD). We performed a case-control study of the association between PD susceptibility and a genetic polymorphism of MAOB and COMT, both separately and in combination, in Iranians. The study enrolled 103 Iranian patients with PD and 70 healthy individual...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the incidence and determinants of non-fatal injuries, and the cost imposed on victims in an Iranian population aged 15-64 years. DESIGN Cross-sectional household survey. METHODS Three-stage probability sampling was conducted for selection of a representative sample of Iranians. Data on the demographics, history and cost of injury were obtained from face-to-face int...

Iranians of whom 52 were females and 109 were males. The median age was 35, the youngest being 18 and the oldest 66 years of age. They represented individuals from all the Iranian regions who live in Tehran, the capital. For the factor V Leiden mutation 9 heterozygotes were found (frequency of 5.5%), with an allele frequency of 2.7% and for the G20210A mutation 5 heterozygotes were found (frequ...

Em tempos em que a luta contra o Racismo é imprescindível e urgente, os discursos de Malcolm X demarcam um período importante homem revertido ao Islam, após seu Hajj (peregrinação Meca) amplia sua perspectiva sobre humano não era homens brancos, sim, exploram outros homens. Passou ser conhecido entre muçulmanos como Al Malik Al-Shabazz (1925-1965), distinção dada toda pessoa faz Hajj. Mais X, f...

The objective of this work is to discuss the urgent need and historical debt biology teaching in Colombia build effective relationships with professorship Afro-Colombian Studies anti-racist struggle, recognizing racism at all levels as one main problems Latin American countries. In sense, initially between struggle are addressed, showing that more than a complementary matter, it should be centr...