BACKGROUND Functional Gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) are common disorders in gastroenterology which are common in young adults. The aim of this study is evaluating the prevalence of upper FGID in iranian young adults. METHODS AND MATERIAL This was a cross-sectional study which was on 995 persons who were going to marry. A ROME III based questionnaire was used to determine the frequency of ...

Objective: After the COVID-19 outbreak, corona anxiety has become prevalent all over world. To understand and treat this type of anxiety, researchers have examined its relationship with attentional bias, a phenomenon closely associated other types anxiety. The dot-probe task is common instrument used for evaluation bias. However, psychometric properties instrument, when assessment bias towards ...

Background & objective Pancytopenia is the reduction in the number of all 3 major cellular elements of blood and leads to anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia. A wide variety of etiologies result in pancytopenia including leukemia, aplastic anemia, and megaloblastic anemia. The current study identified the different etiologies of pancytopenia based on bone marrow examination in Iranian pati...

BACKGROUND Obesity is currently emerging as a global epidemic, affecting 10% of adultpopulation worldwide. The primary objective of the current systematic reviewis to describe the trend of overall prevalence of obesity in Iranian women andmenthrough a meta-analysis. METHODS We searched the medical literature published from 1990 to 2007 in Medline(PubMed), EMBASE database, and the Iranian digi...

Organ weight is one important indicator to discern normal from abnormal condition in forensic pathology as well as in clinical medicine. The present study aimed to investigate morphometric parameters and organ weights of southern Iranian adults, which can be fundamental sources to be compared to abnormal cases.Morphometric parameters and weights of 6 organs (heart, liver, kidney, spleen, append...

INTRODUCTION Poisoning is one of the most important health issues in the world. There is no exact statistic regarding the epidemiology of poisoning in Iran. The aim of this systematic review was to study the epidemiology of poisoning of adults in Iran. METHODS All the published papers regarding the epidemiology and patterns of adult poisonings in different parts of Iran were reviewed in bibli...