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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated socioeconomic deficiencies within Canada's immigrant populations, yet the difference between immigrants from countries with similar language and resources (such as US) those a different background (non-US countries) is not well understood. Accordingly, IMPACT study at centre of this article included Canadian national survey that compared key dom...

patients and materials this was a across-sectional prospective study performed at the pediatric department of rasoul hospital, tehran, iran (2009-2011) on 80 hospitalized children with viral age. all stool samples were collected on viral transport media. human bocavirus (hbov) was detected using the real-time pcr taqman method. molecular detection of human parechovirus type 1 (hpev-1) rna in st...

several studies have been conducted in iran in order to investigate the prevalence of depression among infertile couples. however, there is a remarkable diversity among the results. this meta-analysis was conducted to estimate an overall prevalence rate of depression among infertile couples in iran.international and national electronic databases were searched up to june 2011 including medline, ...

objective(s):familial mediterranean fever (fmf) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of fever accompanied by peritonitis, pleurisy, and arthritis. fmf affects mainly mediterranean populations and is caused by mutations in the familial mediterranean fever (mefv) gene. the aim of this study was to identify the frequency and distribution of mefv mutations in irani...

introduction: chest pain is a common compliant in children and adolescents visiting the clinic. we assess and analyze the etiology of chest pain among children referred a pediatric cardiology clinic in cardiac center in south west of iran.materials and methods: we assessed children with chest pain who visited our medical center during march 2013 to april 2014. any case of trauma associated ches...

conclusions female and older students are at higher risk of developing unhealthy lifestyle. consequently, healthcare providers, health instructors, schoolteachers, and families must pay more attention to these students. moreover, as most of lifelong healthy and unhealthy lifestyle habits are established during adolescence, developing effective health promotion and disease prevention strategies ...

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abstract [1]   background and objective: the recent studies showed that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and neurological soft signs in aggressive persons and murderers are more than general populations. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of prisoners’ neurological soft signs (nss) and its association with crime subgroups in rudsar prison. methods: in a cross sectional ...

  Abstract   Background: Previous studies have indicated an unspecific correlation between noise   exposure and blood pressure disturbances. Blood pressure disturbances could be caused   by the environmental hazards such as noise exposure. The aim of this study is to analyze   whether there is a relationship between noise exposure and hypertension.   Methods: Atotal sample of 218 workers workin...