OBJECTIVES This study aims to identify the bone mineral density (BMD) values and the prevalence of osteoporosis (OP) in Turkish women living in Kastamonu within the purpose of contributing to Turkish database and to explore whether the characteristics of the regional climate and demographics in different provinces of Turkey are risk factors, comparing our results with similar studies. PATIENT...

background: iran is a vast country with great variability in ethnicity and geographical regions as well as higher diversity in socioeconomic and demographic factors in different provinces. all these differences could influence the growth indicators of children and may result in a substantial inequality in the distribution of growth indexes across iranian provinces. this study aimed to determine...

In the last 60 years, great progress has been made in controlling and preventing schistosomiasis in China. However, due to the ecosystem changes caused by the construction of the Three Gorges Dams and the South-north Water Conversion Project, the effects of climate change, the scarcity of a highly sensitive surveillance and response system, schistosomiasis is still considered as a major public ...

INTRODUCTION Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic, serious and sometimes lethal parasitic infection, which is caused by Echinococcus multilocularis (EM). AE has been reported to occur in people from the north of Iran; however, until now there have been no cases of AE reportedfrom the southern provinces, such as Khuzestan. CASE PRESENTATION Herein, we report our experiences with three cas...

prevalence of coagulopathies (n=6010) including factor viii deficient (haemophilia a) individuals (n=3205) were investigated and analysed in 24 provinces of iran. for all coagulopathies, the prevalence (per 100,000) was the highest with 24.45 in semnan (north east of iran), followed by hamadan (west) with 17.56, the lowest was observed in kordestan (west) as 0.88, followed by kohkiluyeh & boyr-...