In this issue of Heart Views, Alhaddad et al. report on The First Jordanian Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Registry 1 (JoPCR1).[1] Heart disease remains the major cause of death worldwide. To date, most of the data about patients with cardiovascular diseases were reported from the developed countries. Although cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in the Middle East, data about ...

the present study provides the first large scale survey on intertidal ichthyofauna along the coastline of iran from gawater bay (border of pakistan) in the gulf of oman to arvandkenar (border of iraq) in the persian gulf. this study was carried out in the years 2005-2006 at 15 stations, including mangrove, mudflat and rocky shores. specimens were collected at low tide from tide pools, using chl...

The zooplankton community and environmental conditions were monitored during Dec. 2012 PG-GOOS (Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman Oceanographic Study) oceanographic cruise on board N/V Ja Nayband throughout the northwestern part of the Persian Gulf. Data of temperature, salinity, depth and pH as well as zooplankton community composition and abundance were collected from 17 stations. The zoopla...

The United Arab Emirates is a peninsular country located on the south-west side of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf and on the north-west banks of the Gulf of Oman (Figure 1). With an area of 83 600 square kilometres (Al Abed et al. 1996: 269), the United Arab Emirates consists of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qawain, Ras alKhaimah and Fujairah. It was known prior to confed...

Genetic diversity of sea turtles (hawksbill turtle) was studied using sequencing of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA, D-loop region). Thirty dead embryos were collected from the Kish and Qeshm Islands in the Persian Gulf. Analysis of sequence variation over 890 bp of the mtDNA control region revealed five haplotypes among 30 individuals. This is the first time that Iranian haplotypes have been recorded...

The main purpose of this study is the survey of the atmospheric low pressure effects at sea level oscillations in the Qeshm Channel. For this purpose, the curves of the pressure on the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, during the passing of the atmospheric low pressure system, are extracted across the region. During the time of occurrence of these events, sea level oscillations in the coastal areas of...

Corals in the Arabian/Persian Gulf (PAG) survive extreme sea temperatures (summer mean: >34°C), and it is unclear whether these corals have genetically adapted or physiologically acclimated to these conditions. In order to elucidate the processes involved in the thermal tolerance of PAG corals, it is essential to understand the connectivity between reefs within and outside of the PAG. To this e...