OBJECTIVE To describe studies evaluating urinary iodine excretion during pregnancy and lactation in women living in cities with adequate or more than adequate iodine intake. DESIGN Cross-sectional study conducted between 1996 and 1998 in pregnant women and a study of lactating women conducted in 2003. SETTINGS AND SUBJECTS Pregnant women attending prenatal clinics in four cities in the Isla...

Disorders of the Septum and Lateral Nasal Wall in Candidates for Septorhinoplasty: A Study a University Hospital Rasht, Northern Iran

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the correlation between anti CagA antibody (Ab) and presence of gastric cancer. METHODS In a descriptive cross-sectional study during October 2003 to October 2005, in the Gastrointestinal Subspeciality Center in Razi Hospital, Rasht, Iran, we assessed anti-Helicobacter Ab immunoglobulin G (IgG) and anti CagA Ab IgG by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method ...

The Third Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN) took place at the Congress Centre in Basel, Switzerland, from 7–9 September 2011. The theme of this meeting, which assembled more than 400 clinicians and researchers from many European countries as well as from North America, Asia and Australia, was ‘Neuropsychology across the Lifespan’. This theme gave the oppor...

projected global climate change may have a major influence on crop yield. the likely effects of climate change caused by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on rice yield in iran were evaluated using a mechanistic growth model for rice, gsac-rice, running under a climate change scenario predicted for a doubled-co2 (2xco2) atmosphere by the geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory (gfd...

INTRODUCTION Depression is a well known health problem worldwide. Prevalence of depressive disorders varies in different societies. AIM to determine the prevalence of depressive disorders and some associated factors in Rasht City (Northern part of Iran). MATERIALS AND METHODS 4020 subjects were selected among 394925 residents of Rasht aged between 18-70 during 2003 - 2004. In the first phas...

BACKGROUND Health maintenance and promotion are the fundamental prerequisites to community development. The best time for establishing healthy lifestyle habits is during adolescence. OBJECTIVES Due to importance of health promotion behaviors in adolescents, this study was conducted to investigate health-promoting behaviors and its associated factors among high school students in Rasht, Iran. ...

Introduction: Nowadays, despite socio-economic development of communities and controlling majority of communicable diseases, tuberculosis is still one of the main causes of mortality and disability in developing countries. With respect to importance and high incidence of tuberculosis in marginal provinces, the present study aimed to assess the epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Khuzestan provinc...

1 Assistant professor, Oro-maxillofacial developmental diseases research center, Department of oral medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Dental school, Rasht, Iran 2 Associate professor, Dental Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Dental School, Mashhad, Iran 3 Assistant professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Mashhad University of Medical Scie...

Three new species of Sesioctonus (Braconidae: Agathidinae) are described and illustrated, i.e., Sesioctonus huggerti, Sesioctonus wayquecha, and Sesioctonus bina. Two new Peruvian species records for Sesioctonus are reported: Sesioctonus longinoi and Sesioctonus diazi. A revised key to all known species of Sesioctonus is presented.