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This cross-sectional study, conducted as part of the Bushehr Elderly Health program stage II in Bushehr, Iran, aimed to evaluate health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in individuals aged ≥ 60 with osteosarcopenia, a condition characterized by the co-occurrence of osteopenia/osteoporosis and sarcopenia. Given the increasing elderly popu...
Background: Childhood hypertension is a predictor of later diseases, increases the risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in adulthood and results in major economic burdens.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect effect of anthropometric, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors on blood pressure (BP) in a large po...
The collected data in Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) Program which had detailed the data on participants' smoking status and habits, was analysed to investigate the association between smoking of both water pipes and cigarettes and hypertension in an elderly population. Three thousand elderly men and women who participated in the baseline assessment...
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Musculoskeletal disorders and cognitive diseases are prevalent, and they are significant determinants of morbidity and mortality in older adults. The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal and cognitive diseases and their risk factors and also to assess their associations during future follow-ups.
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Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus has adverse effects on maternal and fetal outcomes during pregnancy and after delivery. The aim of this study was evaluation of the status of scientific research in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Iran.
Methods: This study is a part of the Iranian diabetes research roadmap (IDDR) project. We investi...
Background: This study conducted to assess publications of diabetes treatments to understand research gaps and priorities to guide a management map for future strategy of diabetes research in Iran.
Methods: All studies published from the beginning until 2015 in national and international journals by Iranian authors conducted in the field of diabet...
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Introduction: Our aim was to compare changes of body mass index (BMI)
and waist circumference (WC) curves of Iranian children by comparing the results
of two national surveys of a surveillance program, i.e. CASPIAN-I (2003–
2004) and CASPIAN-III (2009–2010). The second objective was to evaluate
the prevalence of obesity, overweight...
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INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess the validity of a continuous Metabolic Syndrome score (cMetS) in a nationally representativesample of Iranian children and to identify sex and age-specific optimal cut-off points of cMetS that are associated with MetS.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was conducted among 3,254 schoolchildr...
Introduction: Several investigations have been conducted on the effects of Islamic Ramadan fasting on
blood glucose levels and lipid profile of type two diabetic subjects. However, this matter remained to be
controversial. This study was designed to investigate the effect of Ramadan fasting and structured SMBG
on blood glucose control in this group...
