a survey was carried out in 1998-99 among 20 selected primary schools in the north, south, east and west regions of tehran to determine the level of teachers’ knowledge of asthma. 387 (96.7%) of 400 questionnaires were completed and evaluated. five items were investigated: “general knowledge”, “symptoms and triggers”, exercise”, treatment” and “individual experience”. statistical analysis was p...

objective(s):glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness and it is related to oxidative stress based on numerous studies. glutathione s-transferases (gsts) are members of multigenic family, which have important role in cells as an antioxidant. in the present study, we examined the polymorphism of gstt1 and gstm1 deletion genotypes (t0m1, t1m0, and t0m0) in 100 glaucoma patients (41with pr...

hyperparathyroidism is an endocrine abnormality that frequently causes diffuse osteopenia in the bones. osteosclerosis is a rare phenomenon in adults with primary hyperparathyroidism since the usual skeletal manifestation is generalized osteopenia. we describe a patient with generalized osteosclerosis in the jaws and skull in association with primary hyperparathyroidism, while the other skeleta...

introduction: lymphoma may involve the gastrointestinal tract either primarily or as a manifestation of extensively disseminated systemic disease. stomach being the most frequent site of primary gastroin-testinal lyphoma, followed by the small bowel and colon respectively (1&2&3). for diagnosis of pi-mary small intestinal lymphoma (psil), one most satisfies the criteria specified by dawson and ...

b a ckground: pediculosis capitis is cosmopolitan health problem. in addition to its physical problems, its psycho-logical effects especially on pupils are more important. this study was conducted to determine the pediculosis capitis among primary school pupils and also find out the role of probable related risk factors in urmia city, iran 2010. methods: 35 primary schools of urmia city accordi...

the aim of this study was investigation of the factors affecting the primary choice of consumers in food purchasing in mashhad city by applying cross section data of 201 households in 2012. in this study, 56, 30, and 14% of the consumers chose healthiness of food, price of food, and taste of food, respectively, as the primary preference in food purchase. results of applying multinomial logit mo...

background: dysmenorrhea is one of the most common medical problems in gynecology causing several problems in the personal and social life of women. this study was conducted to compare the effect of thymus vulgaris and ibuprofen on the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea methods: this clinical study was conducted on 84 students of babol university of medical sciences with primary dysmenorrhea. th...

background: tuberculosis of the larynx is a rare form of tuberculosis. patients usually present with hoarseness or dysphagia and other nonspecific constitutional symptoms like fever or localized pain. in this study, we present a case of primary vocal cord lesion with tuberculosis. case presentation: a 72 year old man presented with hoarseness of voice, low grade fever, and night sweating with i...