Background and Objectives: Breast Cancer is the most common malignancy and is the second leading cause of mortality due to cancer in women. One of the important psychological factors in these patients is death anxiety. Given the role of religious orientation to this psychological factor, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between religious orientation and death anxiety in ...

  Background: Infection with parvovirus B19 may cause fetal losses including spontaneous abortion, intrauterine fetal death and non-immune hydropsfetalis. The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of parvovirus B19 in formalin fixed placental tissues in lost fetuses using real-time PCR method.   Methods : In this cross-sectional study, 100 formalin fixed placental tissues with unknown...

Introduction: Increasing age is one of the most important predictors of mortality among aged population. Therefore, determining the causes of death among older people could be imperative. The purpose of this study was to investigate non-communicable disease mortality among a sample of older people in Iran from 2007 to 2018. Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive study that applied censu...

BACKGROUND Smoking during pregnancy is known to negatively affect pregnancy outcomes and it has been associated with numerous complications during pregnancy. Smoking is more common in younger pregnant women, but previous research has shown that adverse pregnancy outcomes related to older maternal age and smoking are even more harmful than with younger smokers. The aim of this study was to compa...

background : ardabil cancer registry is the first population-based cancer registry in iran that was established in 2000. the first report from this registry revealed that ardabil has one of the highest rate of gastric cardia cancer and the lowest rate of cer­vical cancer in the world. we aim to update the cancer incidence in this area by the second follow up report from this registry. method : ...

Infants and toddlers represent an age range at high-risk of injuries and accidental deaths since their lack of skill makes them unable to avoid potentially dangerous situations present in their environment [1-5]. In fact, an environment where infants sleep is an example of a potentially hazardous situation that may result in accidental death caused by strangulation [2,4]. Although such accident...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine and identify relationships between the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and environmental temperature in Canterbury, New Zealand. DESIGN A retrospective epidemiological study combining details of regional hourly temperature and reported SIDS cases. SETTING Canterbury, New Zealand, between 1968 and 1989 inclusively. PARTICIPANTS All infants reported as dying f...