this is a cross-sectional study aiming at analyzing the relation between falling and domestic environmental -risk factors in community-dwelling elderly.the study consisted of 243 randomly chosen community-dwelling elderly over 65 years of age living around a health care center in central selcuklu, konya. data were collected with a questionnaire form including socio-demographic and other charact...

background: hamadan province is one of the high-risk regions in iran for multiple sclerosis (ms). a majority of the epidemiological studies conducted in iran addressing ms are descriptive. this study was conducted to assess ms and its associated risk factors in hamadan province, the west of iran . methods: this case-control study compared 100 patients with ms (case group) and 100 patients with ...

objective: as a first study, suicidal ideation and its correlates have been evaluated in iranian hiv positive population . methods: one hundred and fifty hiv-positive individuals were recruited in this cross-sectional study. the hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads), positive and negative suicide ideation (pansi), pittsburgh sleep quality inventory (psqi) and somatization subscale of sym...

conclusions we conclude that a significant percentage of esrd patients undergoing maintenance hd have severe or very severe rls symptoms. the presence of rls is associated to longer durations of dialysis. results of the 139 hd patients enrolled in this study, 60 were female (43.2%) and 79 were male (56.8%), with a mean age of 51.82 ± 13.31 years. the prevalence of rls was 15.8% (22 patients), w...

background:  geographic and doctor-to-doctor variations in care are a focus of quality and safety efforts in medicine. this study addresses factors associated with variation in the rate of operative treatment of de quervain tendinopathy.   methods: we used a database including all patient encounters at 2 large medical centers, to study the experience of 10 hand surgeons and 1 physiatrist workin...

over the last two decades a main focus in obesity research in iran has been on finding variables associated with body weight. it is now clear that prevalence of obesity is not uniform in urban communities, its distribution being dependent to a large extent on such variables as age and gender, as well as socio-economic factors. more specifically, the available information indicates that in the a...