Measurements of height and weight are important data source relating to growth and development, puberty, and nutritional status of children and adolescents. In clinical setting, the charts of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), USA, are used in Iran. A survey identified significant differences in weight- and height-for-age across provinces, between urban and rural children. Althou...

By increasing the number of cardiovascular procedures, iodinated contrast media (ICM) is one of the most common agents used for diagnostic and prognostic and also therapeutic cardiac interventions. Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is one of the most leading causes of hospital-acquired renal insufficiency (1). Following cardiovascular invasive procedures, CIN occurs in about 3.1 to 31% of pati...

Babak Mostaghaci1,2, Arash Hanifi3, Brigitta Loretz1 and Claus-Michael Lehr1,4 1Dept. of Drug Delivery (DDEL), Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infectious Research (HZI) Saarland University, Saarbruecken 2Biomaterials Group, Materials Engineering Department Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 3Tissue Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab, Bioeng...

1 Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4 Iranian National Center of Addiction Studies (IN...