introduction: level of mothers’ literacy, pregnancy history of more than four times, residence in villages, lack of receiving intensive care during pregnancy, as well as inaccessibility to obstetric emergency services have been reported, in iran and the world, as major factors for maternal mortality. considering significance of identifying indirect causes of maternal mortalities, the present st...

1. What Is Epidemiology? 2. Purposes of Epidemiology 3. Defining and Measuring Health and Disease 3.1. Disease Nomenclature and Classification 3.2. Counting Disease 3.3. Severity of Disease 3.3.1. Mortality 3.3.2. Morbidity 3.3.3. Composite Measures Combining Morbidity and Mortality 4. Descriptive Epidemiology 4.1 Infectious Disease Triad 4.2 Descriptive Epidemiology Triad 4.3. Health Indicator...

Endogenous Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is a rare endocrine disorder characterised by excess cortisol secretion due to either ACTH-dependent conditions [commonly an ACTH-producing pituitary adenoma (Cushing’s disease)] or ACTH-independent causes (with most common aetiology being benign adrenal adenoma). Overall, the annual incidence of CS ranges between 1.8 and 3.2 cases per million population. Mort...

conclusions an increasing burden of hcv-related liver disease is expected in iran under the current diagnosis and treatment levels. increased diagnosis and treatment uptake is required in combination with enhanced treatment efficacy to reduce the hcv burden. the relatively young age of the hcv infected population, provides an opportunity for timely interventions to avert the projected rising hc...

demiology, they should have applied a combination of Cambell/Stanley and Granger/Wiener approaches. Indeed, the epidemiological literature has included descriptions and applications of such combinations for decades. I retrieved cohort infant mortality rates for the USA and Canada from the Human Mortality Database for the years 1950 through 2009. I regressed the US rate on that for Canada and us...

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background and aims: stomach cancer is one of the most common cancers and the second cause of deaths among cancers worldwide cancer in the world. this study aimed to estimate the rate and trend of death from stomach cancer in iranian population between 2006 and 2010. methods: this study was a cross-sectional conducted using mortality data in iranian population between 2006 and 2010. the number ...

review:background: liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer is. the true prevalence of infection in cancer remains unknown but the incidence of these cancers in 1.7 % of all cases of cancer. the aim of this study was to examine the changes of liver cancer mortality in the population during the years 2006 to 2010.materials and methods: in this study, the...