Metabolic phenotyping, nowadays most often termed ‘metabolomics’, is becoming increasingly applied in molecular epidemiology, particularly in concert with genomics. Since Jeremy Nicholson and colleagues coined the term ‘metabonomics’ in 1999, over 15 000 publications have appeared under this conceptual and technological umbrella (a Pubmed search on 15 August 2016 at [http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...

the study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions (hrs) to drugs in workers. the data consisted of 1152 questionnaires obtained from adult men that consisted of questions on hrs induced by drugs. the prevalence of self-reported drug hrs was 3.6% for all reactions. hrs were most common to beta-lactam antibiotics (51.2%) followed by ...

background: due to their specific nature, such as high incidence, high intensity and direct involvement of all members of society, traffic injuries are of particular importance. through a mega data, this study investigated the epidemiological aspects and depict current situation of road traffic injuries in iran. methods: using legal medicine and traffic police data, deaths from road traffic inj...

conclusions about one-third of the patients referring to the pain clinic had subacute pain. the patients with chronic pain were older and more obese, had a higher prevalence of addiction, had more cases of knee pain, and reported more instances of obscure and persistent pain than those with subacute pain. objectives the aim of the present study was to assess and compare the sociodemographic cha...

conclusions the results of this study show a considerable prevalence of chronic pain among adults in tehran. therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to different types of chronic pain by planners and policy makers. background chronic pain has been estimated to affect between 2% - 40% of the adult population and its prevalence is increasing. objectives this study aimed to provide epidem...

asthma, which is mainly distinguished by airway inflammation and bronchial hyper responsiveness, is known as one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. it also is the most frequent chronic respiratory disorder amongst all age groups. on one side of the asthma story, there are massive investment of time, effort and money, a large number of pharmaceutical and academic research studies, he...