Coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factor profiles change over time. The death rate from coronary disease has been decreasing mainly due to changes in levels of risk factors, and improvement in CAD treatments. However, there are risk factors, whose prevalence is increasing, such as diabetes and obesity. When the risk factor profile changes, we can assume that gene profiles and epigenetics also ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Acute hepatitis C infection usually ends in chronic infection, while in a minority of patients it is spontaneously cleared. The current population-based study is performed on a large cohort in Golestan province of Iran to examine the demographic correlates of Spontaneous Hepatitis C Clearance. METHODS Serum samples used in this study had been stored in biorepository of Gol...

The rising epidemic of diabetes imposes a substantial economic burden on the Middle East. Using baseline data from a population based cohort study, we aimed to identify the correlates of diabetes mellitus (DM) in a mainly rural population from Iran. Between 2004 and 2007, 50044 adults between 30 and 87 years old from Golestan Province located in Northeast Iran were enrolled in the Golestan Coho...

This study tests the hypothesis that prediagnostic serum levels of 20 cancer-associated inflammatory biomarkers correlate directly with future development of head and neck, esophageal, and lung cancers in a high-risk prospective cohort. This is a nested case-control pilot study of subjects enrolled in the Golestan Cohort Study, an ongoing epidemiologic project assessing cancer trends in Golesta...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and therefore represents a major problem in public health.The aim of this study was to find and evaluate province-specific estimate of incidence in males by age groups for prostate cancer in Golestan province, Iran. The data used in this study were collected in a cancer registry program that was conducted by Health Deputy of Golestan province in ...

Masjedi zadeh R1, Hajiani E2, Hashemi SJ3, Khodadadi M3 1 Associate Professor, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Golestan Hospital, Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz, Iran 2 Associate Professor, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Golestan Hospital, Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences,...

Sub-Saharan Africa has scaled-up access to combination anti-retroviral therapy (cART) at unprecedented rates, yet data on patient-related outcomes remain sparse. Representative databases that facilitate highquality collection, harmonization and analysis of HIV-related information from clinical and researchrelated sites are needed. The large sample sizes that nationally representative databases ...

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark, Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark, Department of General Practice, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark, Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland and Nordic School of Public Healt...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Noor Ophthalmology Research Center, Noor Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran, Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran, Education Development Center, Tehran Univers...

Division of Public Health Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, ...