background: unlike the western hemisphere, information about stroke epidemiology in southern iran is scarce. the aim of this study was to determine the main epidemiological characteristics of patients with stroke and its mortality rate in southern iran. methods: a retrospective, single-center, hospital-based longitudinal study was performed at nemazee hospital in shiraz, southern iran. patients...

mortality rate indicator for children under 5 years old is one of the important indicators in countries' development. identifying the most common causes of mortality is one of the most important attempts to reduce mortality in children less than 5 years. the purpose of this study was to identify distribution of the mortality causes in iranian children less than 5 years.this cross-sectional stud...

Background: Unlike the western hemisphere, information about stroke epidemiology in southern Iran is scarce. The aim of this study was to determine the main epidemiological characteristics of patients with stroke and its mortality rate in southern Iran.Methods: A retrospective, single-center, hospital-based longitudinal study was performed at Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Southern Iran. Patients ...

asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. the natural history of asthma is often  characterized by periods  of  remission and  relapse. the  aim of  this study was to determine the remission rate of asthmatic children after entering the second decade of life and remission related factors in a hospital–based cohort. the  study  population  was  asthmatic  children  who  were  diagno...

Celiac disease (CD) is associated with increased mortality rate and adverse pregnancy outcome, but little is known about offspring mortality rate. In this nationwide retrospective cohort study, we identified persons whose biopsy-verified CD was diagnosed in Sweden in 1969-2008. We compared mortality rates in children born to mothers with and without CD (n = 16,121 vs. n = 61,782) and children b...

during a 6 year period from september 1992 to september 1998, 165 children with a final diagnosis of henoch-schonlein purpura (hsp) were managed and followed in our center. there were 87 (52%) boys and 78 (48%) girls, with age ranges of 1-16 years and mean age of 7.8 years. forty-one percent of the patients had evidence of preceding upper respiratory tract infection (uri). the main clinical fea...

ethiopia's childhood mortality has continued to decline although at a swift pace. the drop in urban childhood mortality decline, duration of breastfeeding is the principle reason for the overall decline in mortality trends in ethiopia.  data from the ethiopian demographic and health surveys 2000 and 2005 were used. indirect estimation of brass and trussell's methods were adopted. selected demog...

objective: evaluating the status of the eco member countries in relation to goal 5 of 3rd millennium which includes 75% reduction of maternal mortality rate till 2015 in comparison to 1990. material and methods: in 2009, we have critically reviewed the countries’ mdg reports and extracted the data on each mdgs’ indicator by year and cause of mortality, (if possible) resident area (urban/rural) ...

the aim of the study was to estimate the short-run and long-run effects of unemployment rate on health outcomes of chinese population, which is under studied before.the chinese aggregate data was analyzed (provincial data from 1990-2011). the fixed effect model and infinite distributed lag model (idl) were applied to analyze the data. it aimed to estimate the short-run and long-run association ...