INTRODUCTION There are numerous studies addressing associations of polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and cancer risks because accurate and efficient DNA repair is crucial to genomic integrity and fidelity. ERCC1 is important in DNA nucleotide excision repair. MATERIAL AND METHODS We genotyped constitutive variants of ERCC1 in approximately 300 adults with breast adenocarcinoma and 126 control...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study hypothesises that the presumed increased risk of self reported longstanding psychiatric illness and intake of psychotropic drugs among Iranian, Chilean, Turkish, and Kurdish adults, when these groups are compared with Polish adults, can be explained by living alone, poor acculturation, unemployment, and low sense of coherence. DESIGN Data from a national sample of i...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Joint association of lifestyle-related factors and mental health has been less studied in earlier studies, especially in Middle Eastern countries. This study aimed to examine how combinations of several lifestyle-related factors related to depression and anxiety in a large group of middle-age Iranian population. METHODS In a cross-sectional study on 3363 Iranian adults, a ...

BACKGROUND Invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT) are a small subset of T lymphocytes which are involved in a wide variety of immune responses. Human studies have reported a wide variation in the number of circulating iNKT cell among healthy donors as well as in some immunologic disorders while there is no or little data about the factors which affect the pool of circulating iNKT cells in huma...

Objectives In the context of family changes and population aging, changing pattern life arrangements older adults has become a social policy issue. this regard, article aims to investigate patterns living its socio-demographic correlates. Methods & Materials A secondary analysis micro-census data for 2006 2016 was used. The study include people aged 60 over in households. Multinomial logist...