background : skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. thus, the aim of this study was to determine the incidence trend of skin cancer in isfahan province, iran. methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted using data registered during 2004-2008 in the disease management center and cancer registry system of the ministry of health and medical education. the trend of ski...

the evaluation of prevalence and appearing the social disorders involve having exact statistical information during a fixed time series. in iran, unfortunoutiely, there is no access to this kind of information - at least in this regard. in some social disorders which originally have risen some misunderstanding and disagreement in their definitions, importance, and soon, the lack of statistic in...

background and aims: thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignant and papillary cancer and three times more prevalent in women than men. the aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence rate and trend of thyroid cancer in iranian population. methods: national incidence was rated by iran national cancer registry data derived from iran’s annual national cancer registration reported fr...

background elimination of suicide attempts is impossible, but they can be reduced dramatically by an organized planning. the present study aimed to survey the suicide trends in fars province (iran), during 2004-2009 to better understand the prevalence and status of suicide.   methods this survey was a cross-sectional study. the demographic data were collected from the civil status registry betw...

a secular milestone is approached by the world in line of reaching millennium development goals (mdgs). after december 2015, a new of flexible and global sustainable development goals (sdgs) were set, replace mdgs by sdgs. infant mortality rate (imr) is a pivotal indicator of development in a given country that embedded in millennium development goal (mdg).  after that in manner of strong clini...

BACKGROUND Skog's collectivity theory of alcohol consumption predicted that changes in alcohol consumption would synchronize across all types of drinkers in a population. The aim of this paper is examine this theory in the Australian context. We examined whether there was a collective change in alcohol use in Australia from 2001 to 2013, estimated alcohol consumption in non-high risk and high r...

conclusions addressing and removing explainable patterns of syndromic data on meningitis is necessary to timely and accurately detection of meningitis epidemics. it was concluded that decomposition methods had better performance compared to the model based ones. background meningitis is one of the most disturbing infectious diseases due to mortality, morbidity and its ability to cause epidemic....

trends in cholesterol level of different populations have been investigated in several studies. this study is conducted to determine the trend of cholesterol level of iranian adults from 1990 to 2007. data on cholesterol measurements of four national health surveys that have been carried out in iran used in this study. cholesterol level of 12728 adults aged 25-64 were measured in 1990-1 survey....

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices are being increasingly used to monitor glycemia in people with diabetes. One advantage with CGM is the ability to monitor the trend of sensor glucose (SG) over time. However, there are few metrics available for assessing the trend accuracy of CGM devices. The aim of this study was to develop an easy to interpret tool for assessing trend accuracy of CG...

An automated medical trend detection program, TrenDx, was developed in earlier work by Haimowitz [1] and Le [2]. It was evaluated on its ability to discern growth abnormalities by matching templates of expected growth patterns. The results of these evaluations were somewhat disappointing because the program was inefficient and could not reach the level of sensitivity and specificity of human ph...