To assess the daily salt intake of people aged 20-74 years based on the 24-hour urinary sodium excretion in urban population of Yazd, a population-based cross-sectional study was conducted. This is a substudy of Yazd Healthy Heart Project in Iran. From 2004 to 2005, two thousand people of the urban population of Yazd city, aged 20-74 years, were enrolled in the main study. Overall, 219 voluntee...

1- Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Infectious Diseases Research Center, School Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 2- Yazd Health 3- General Courses Department, 4- Hematology Blood Banking, Paramedical School, Gerash Gerash, 5- Biostatics Epidemiology Health, 6- Faculty Shiraz Shiraz, , [email protected]

Correspondence: Z Ansari Cardiovascular Research Center, Afshar Hospital, Jomhoori Blvd, Yazd, Iran Tel: +98-351-5231421 Fax: +98-351-5253335 Email:[email protected] Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors are increasing in developing countries. Previous studies have shown a high prevalence of CAD risk factors in Iran but Geographical prevalence is not uniform. The present s...

Background Phlebotominae sand flies are the main vectors of leishmaniasis and some other diseases. Materials and Methods Using sticky traps, sand flies were collected fortnightly from outdoors and indoors areas of selected sites. Results A total of 2032 specimens (498 in the city and 1534 in the outskirts of Yazd) belonging to 11 species were collected. The activity of sand flies started in...

BACKGROUND Road traffic deaths are a considerable public health problem and a major source of lost financial and human resources. Most mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to measure road traffic fatality rates and years of lost life, and also to depict a view of trends in road traffic deaths from 2004 to 2010 in Yazd city, a province in central Ir...

BACKGROUND Despite the presence of many textile and dyeing plants in Iran, we couldn't find similar studies in this country. Forthermore, considering progress in the dyeing process and engineering controls, assessment of respiratory system is important for these workers. The present study was performed to evaluate the respiratory system in dyeing workers. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 1...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional investigation compared the depressive condition between menopaused and nonmenopasued women in the age of 45-55 in Yazd city in Yazd Province in center of Iran. METHODS The samples were divided into two groups (70 menopaused women and 70 nonmenopaused women) , and were selected by cluster sampling from the city of Yazd. The depressive tendency of participants wa...

Noise, as the most common physical agent in workplace, not only causes hearing loss but also leads to various diseases, such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Sound is likely to stimulate and increase the secretion of adrenal catecholamines, and may have an indirect role in the pathogenesis of diseases caused by stress. This study was performed to investigate the effect of noise on ur...