the nomad communities played an important role in the socio-economic status of the iranian society from the beginning of the twentieth century. following the political events of reza shah such as settling strategy, the nomads lost their importance and marginalized. the present paper aims study the social and cultural transitions among the turkman tribe to find out how settling strategy led to t...

1Department of Embryology; 3Department of Health, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to M.J. Golalipour: [email protected]). 2Department of Paediatrics, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT This study recorded the rate of congenital malformations in 10 000 births at a referral hospital in Gorg...

abstract background and purpose: overweight and obesity are the health problem in adolescents and the main purpose of this study was to evaluate this problem and some socio-demographicrelated factors among two ethnic groups in iranian northern primary school children in 2010. materials and methods: this was a descriptive and cross-sectional study that performed on 4165 students (turkman = 2852a...

ХХ asrgacha bo‘lgan ilmiy tadqiqotlarda til va adabiyot sohalari ayri holda o‘rganilganligi, bu holat matn badiiyatiga jiddiy zarar yetkazib kelganligi, ilmda ushbu qusurga barham berish uchun lingvopoetika sohasi shakllanganligi badiiy matndagi uslubiy bo‘yoqli birliklarining estetik ta’sir yaratish masalasini o‘rganishi aytilgan. O‘zbek milliy adabiyotidagi o‘zbekona ohoriy matnlar ijodkori A...

background abo blood groups are associated with some important chronic diseases. obesity as a major risk factor of chronic non-communicable diseases is rising rapidly in iran as well as in developing countries. understanding the risks for obesity is important for its control. this study seeks to determine if there is any association between abo blood groups and body mass index (bmi). materials ...

introduction: brain weight and cranial capacity are important parameters in the study of racial/ ethnic differences. this study was done to determine the effect of ethnicity on the female’s brain weight in northern iran. methods: brain weight was estimated using linear (lee–pearson’s) formula in 410 normal 17–20 year old (207 native fars and 203 turkman) females in northern iran. dimensions of ...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to collect informative data on the parasitic infection of wild rodents, emphasizing on finding parasites, which have medical importance to human. METHODS During 2012-2014, a total number of 91 wild rodents were captured from rural areas of Turkmen Sahra, Golestan Province, using handmade traps. Animals were anesthetized, surveyed for any ectoparasite and th...

the turkmans are one of the iranian ethnic population. hla typing (class i and ii) was performed in this population. the data obtained from this study was compared with different populations of the world. we observed that the turkman population is most similar to the northern chinese and uigur population. the distributions of hla antigens in turkmans are somewhat between iranian population, nor...

BACKGROUND Esophageal cancer is highly prevalent among the Turkman people in Northeastern Iran. In order to evaluate its etiology, there is an on-going prospective cohort study in this area involving approximately 50000 subjects over the age of 40 years. The majority of these subjects are illiterate, thus obtaining informed consent is very important and difficult. METHODS Initially, we explai...