malnutrition and inflammation are the most important causes of cardiovascular disease in hemodialysis patients. this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of increase in hemodialysis frequency on c-reactive protein (crp) level and nutritional markers in contrast to previous routine method. 18 hemodialysis patients with a mean age of 53±16 years were randomly selected in this before-and-aft...

Background: It is not well understood whether the self-reported experience of substance abuse-related problems differs by socioeconomic status.Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis using the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on participants who reported ever using illicit drugs or used illicit drugs in the past year.Findings: Among those reporting ever using illicit drugs...

Introduction: Although socioeconomic status (SES) resources influence population and individual health behaviors, socially marginalized groups gain significantly less health from their SES indicators, such as education and income, compared to the socially privileged groups. This pattern is called marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs). However, most of the MDRs liter...

background: population‑based estimates of traffic accidents (tas) are not readily available for developing countries. this study examined the contribution of socioeconomic status (ses) to the risk of ta among iranian adult s. methods: a total of 64,200people aged ≥18years were identified from 2008 urban health equity assessment and response tool (urban heart) survey. 22,128 households were inte...

abstract: measles remains one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries and is still a major public health concern in developed countries. although live attenuated vaccine is used throughout the world, out breaks of disease still occur in many countries including iran. understanding measles outbreaks that occur after the initiation of measles elimination...

background: in the history there are long backgrounds to coexistence of human and domesticated animal. counter effect of more than 150 common diseases threat the human and domesticated health. due to climate condition of mazandaran, in the north of iran, the objective of the present study is to evaluate health conditions of the industrial animal husbandries (iah) during 2000-2001 . methods: thi...

the etiopathogenesis of dementia in alzheimer's disease (ad) is still unclear. however, long-term oxidative stress is believed to be one of the major contributing factors in progression of neuronal degeneration and decline of cognitive function in ad. in order to assess the presence of oxidative stress in ad, we examined the enzymatic activities of the erythrocyte cu-zn superoxide dismutase (cu...

how to cite this article: soltani d, ghaffar pour m, tafakhori a, sarraf p, bitarafan s. nutritional aspects of treatment in epileptic patients. iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3): 1-12.   abstract epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by interruption of normal neuronal functions that is manifested by behavioral disorders, changing of awareness level, and presence of some senso...

background: a key challenge for equality evaluation and monitoring, mainly in developing countries, is assessing socioeconomic status of individuals (ses). this difficulty along with low technical competency, have resulted in many health information collected in these countries to be devoid of suitable ses indices. however, simplifying data collection requirements for estimating economic parame...

background : malnutrition represents an important issue in older adults; unfortunately, there is lack of data concerning this topic in lebanon. this paper aims to provide a description of nutritional status and its correlates in older adults living in long stay institutions situated in beirut. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in three long stay institutions in beirut in 2012. ...