background & aims of the study: in this study, we evaluate the respiratory deaths which were caused by exposure to pm10 in ahwaz, bushehr and kermanshah cities of iran during 2015 by air model q2.2.3. materials and methods: the required data gathered from the department of environment and meteorological organization in three study areas. data were analyzed, using excel software at the next stag...

background nosocomial infections (nis) are an important public health problem worldwide, particularity in the intensive care units (icus). objectives the current study aimed to detect and highlight nis as the critical factor in increasing mortality and morbidity to clarify the current health priorities and challenges in iran. patients and methods it was a retrospective study on 376 selected pat...

background: morbidity and mortality of preterm babies are important issues in perinatal medicine. in developed countries, preterm delivery is the cause of about 70% of mortality and 75% of morbidity in the neonatal period, respectively. objective: the aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for preterm labor and the outcomes, in terms of perinatal mortality and morbidity at the time...

in many models of programmed cell death, the mitochondrial protein aif translocates to the nucleus, where it induces the chromatin condensation and dna degradation. however, today it is well established that this flavoprotein is bifunctional. in addition to its lethal function in the nucleus of dying cells, aif plays a vital bioenergetic role in healthy ones by regulating mainly the activity of...

introduction sulfur dioxide has been widely studied among the human- made pollutants. air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. the less air pollution, the better the cardiovascular and respiratory health of the population will be, both long- and short-term. several studies have demonstrated relation between on short and long term effects exposure to air pollutants with human healt...

The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of the cause of death among children under 5 years with respect to the age and sex in Amirkola Children Hospital. The data of 536 child death was obtained during l 993-1997 on the basis of ultimate diagnosis in the death certificate using disease classification. The results shows that the most common cause of death in the neonatal p...