conclusions to reduce the impacts of particulate matter on health status of people in ilam, necessary training by health systems should be conducted for people, especially those with chronic lung and heart diseases, the elderly and children to reduce their activities on the dusty days. methods pm10 data was taken from the ilam environmental protection agency. the annual morbidity including hosp...

introduction: retinal vein occlusion  is a common vascular disorder disrupting vision. two basic types of rvo are branch retinal vein occlusion and central retinal vein occlusion (crvo).  retinal vein occlusion is a multifactor process including systemic illness and local retinal factors.rvo may be associated with atherosclerotic risk factors. we analyzed the role of 2 dimensional transthoracic...

abstract: introduction: overweight and obesity are major health problems affecting communities worldwide and the prevalence is rapidly rising. although the prevalence of obesity in iran has been reported, there are no data available on the prevalence of these factors in individuals aged over 50 years, individuals who are naturally more prone to cardiovascular diseases and death. this study aims...

1Department of Infectious Diseases, Nosocomial Infection Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 2Department of Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 4Department of Microbiology...

BACKGROUND Bacterial pericarditis is an important cause of post-surgery mortality and morbidity. This can be a preventable complication and the involved pathogens vary according to the time and location. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the bacteriologic profile in patients with pericardial infections after cardiac surgery in the largest tertiary care center for cardiovascu...

background diabetes mellitus is assumed to be a strong risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (cvd) and is frequently associated with other cvd risk factors. objectives the aims of this study were to assess the prevalence of different patterns of dyslipidemia in individuals with diabetes compared with non-diabetic subjects and evaluate other accompanied cvd risk factors between the two groups....

background obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is a common sleep disease. it is associated not only with hypertension but also with other cardiac complications. thus, the early detection of cardiac disorders is very useful. objectives we sought to evaluate different echocardiographic parameters. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was done on 55 patients with osa. the patients were divide...