OBJECTIVE Permanent congenital hearing loss, a common congenital anomaly, may affect speech and language acquisition, academic achievement and social development. Current standards emphasize early recognition of congenital hearing loss. This study was conducted to find the prevalence of hearing impairment in term newborns in Yazd, Iran. METHODS This was a descriptive-analytic study conducted ...

Burns are injuries which may require long hospitalization and may result in important impairment and disability. Burn injuries are still common especially in developing countries. Assessment of the epidemiology of burns is very important for introduction of preventive methods. This study was conducted in Yazd to assess and describe the epidemiology of burns including its main causes, and its de...

BACKGROUND Multiple transfusions in thalassemia patients may lead to antibody production against blood group antigens and hemolytic transfusion reaction might occur. In this study, antibody screening test was performed by tube and gel methods to determine the prevalence and specificity of alloantibodies in thalassemia patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, overall of 1...

In this paper we introduce and study a family An(q) of abelian subgroups of GLn(q) covering every element of GLn(q). We show that An(q) contains all the centralizers of cyclic matrices and equality holds if q > n. For q > 2, we obtain an infinite product expression for a probabilistic generating function for |An(q)|. This leads to upper and lower bounds which show in particular that c1q −n ≤ |A...

Sensitivity Analysis of Combat Desertification Strategies in Fuzzy Environment Yazd-Khezrabad Sub-Catchment (Saduq County)

Application of Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) in Analyzing Obstacles to Combat Desertification with Pathological Approach Yazd Province

Introduction: Sarcocystis species are one of the most important meat borne parasites. Sarcocystosis causes several symptoms in human as well as numerous diseases with high economic impact in livestock. In current paper at first results of a pilot study for determination of disease agent in lamb of Yazd province central Iran is presented. Then status of parasite in red meat products in study reg...

BACKGROUND Low bone mass is a major health problem in postmenopausal women. There is no general agreement regarding relationship between serum level of lipids and bone mineral density. OBJECTIVE This study was carried out to investigate the association between lipid profile and bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women in Yazd, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous preterm labor is one of the common obstetrics problems causing several physical, psychological and economical outcomes. Although due to these outcomes and the efficacy of cares for decreasing them, preterm labor screening is cost-effective and it is still one of the challenging issues in obstetrics. OBJECTIVE In this study preterm labor screening by using cervical trans...

BACKGROUND To assess the epidemiological characteristics of hypertensive patients in urban population of Yazd, A central city in Iran. METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted from 2005-2006 and carried out on population aging 20-74 years. It is a part of the phase I of Yazd healthy heart program that it is a community interventional study for prevention of cardiovascular disease. Dat...