Background and aims: Depression is a growing public health problem in the world. In this study we investigated the relationship between dietary patterns and depression in adults aged 20-50 years living in Shiraz, Iran. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 416 subjects (180 men and 236 women) aged 20 to 50 years were selected by stratified multistage rando...

objectives: social participation is linked to healthy aging and the maintenance of functional independence in older individuals. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between social participation and orderly’s mental health. methods: totally 380 people, aged over 60 residing in city of hamadan were participated in the study. the participants completed a researcher-tailored inventory ...

background: hip fractures are serious fall injuries that often result in long-term functional impairment and increased mortality. as the population ages, the number of hip fractures is likely to increase worldwide. the main objective of this pilot study was to evaluate the risk factors of hip fracture among the older adults in the lebanese population. methods: this pilot epidemiological, prospe...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of mountaineering on health factors in elder people. methods & materials: this study was a cross-sectional study. forty three elderly men (mean age 57/7±9/3 yrs) were selected randomly fromparks of northern tehran. according to their activity and type of activity, subjects divided into three groups of mountaineer (n=15), trained (...

introduction: this study was conducted to determine the pattern of maxillofacial fractures in three age groups of adults, adolescents, and children, using ct scan images. methods: in this cross-sectional study, ct scan images of 230 patients with maxillofacial trauma during one year were examined in terms of the number and site of fractures. the patients were divided into three age groups, chil...

numerous etiologies are responsible for cases of stroke in young adults. this study reviews the causes of two types of stroke (ischemic and intracerebral hemorrhage) in young adults aged 15 to 40years, admitted to our center (a tertiary care center) from 1997 to 2002. the purpose of this study is to determine the relative frequency of causes of stroke in young adults and compare this with publi...

aortic dissection occurs when a tear develops in the wall of the aorta, which is rare in the young population. this fatal disorder is hard to diagnose, especially in young patients. we present the case of aortic dissection in a 15-year-old boy referred to the emergency department of yazd university of medical sciences in november 2015. the patient presented to our department with sudden acute c...

conclusions the results showed that the dexterity fingers of patients suffering from stroke at the final stages of bronestrum is much closer to the dexterity of healthy controls. background one of the main problems of chronic stroke patients is the inability to move the fingers separately despite the passing of an extended period of time since the onset of the disease. dexterity is a fine motor...

ba c k g r o und : the aim of this study was to examine the association between dietary intakes of vitamin d and the metabolic syndrome (mets) in tehranian adults, iran. m ethods : in this population-based prospective study, a sample of 2357 subjects, aged 20-74 years, who had completed a validated food frequency questionnaire, were  studied.  mets  was  defined  according to  the  modified  gu...