Reza Amini

• Ph.D., M.D., MPH
• Professor (Associate) at University of Michigan–Flint

Aim: Assessment of activities of daily living (ADL) can be helpful for designing individualized rehabilitation programs for disabled individuals. Measuring and comparing the basic ADL (BADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) independence between middle aged and senior Iranian blind war survivors (IBWS) was the aim of this study. Methods: This cross-se...

Objectives: This study is aimed to investigate the independency status of the male elderly blind war survivors. Methods and Materials: The study was a cross sectional study on 312 male elderly blind war survivors over 40-year in Mashad city (Iran). The analysis compared among 3 age groups; 40-49, 50-59 and over 60 years old . Barthel index and Lawt...

This paper provides an overview of aging in the Iranian population. Because of fluctuations of fertility and mortality rates in different time periods, Iran has had a unique demographic profile. The Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), one of the primary factors that affected the population demographics, has contributed to the baby boom. As a result, the sen...

This paper aims to assess the differences between ethnicities in the age groups over 50 years old, with the hypothesis that BMI can be different in ethnic groups living in the United States according their gender and length of life in the United States. The data derive from ten years (2001-2010) of the National Health Interview Survey Adult Sample,...

Quality of Life measurements are necessary tools for effectively evaluating health services. In the population of patients afflicted with war-related blindness in Iran, such measurements have yet to be documented and utilized. "The design and implementation of this study involved the determination of a baseline score for QOL in a population of Iran...

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the relocation of older adults in the US from community living to long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Specifically, it examines the predictive roles of possible and probable dementia and hospital stays in this complex health care transition. Study Design: Utilizing data from the National Health and Aging T...

Most studies investigating the correlation between cognitive function (CF) and COVID-19 are cross-sectional, with less than one-year intervals post-contracting COVID-19. Using three waves of the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), this study aims to investigate the correlation between COVID-19 and CF impairment/dementia among community-...

Objectives: To investigate how balance and grip strength predicts the probability of cognitive function impairment (i.e., executive function: mild and mild-to-moderate impairment, and delayed recall) over eight years in community-dwelling older adults in the US, controlling for sex and race/ethnicity. Methods: The National Health and Aging Trend...

Objectives Most older adults with dementia are assisted by multiple caregivers, but the relationship of care network structure with healthcare access and quality is underexamined. We sought to test the associations of care network characteristics with the physician visit experience for older adults with dementia across diverse racial/ethnic groups....

Objective: The authors examined the association among cognitive function, falling, and physical performance among community-dwelling older adults (ages ≥65 years). Methods: Eight waves of the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS; 2011-2018) were assessed, with 1,225 respondents who participated in all waves. The outcomes were self-repor...

The present study examines the changes in the type and frequency of beverage consumption of Genesee County, Michigan residents before and after the Flint water crisis (FWC). Employing Speak to Your Health! Community Survey data of adults (N=1,825) and random-effects longitudinal ordered logistic regression, we examined between the frequency of dail...

Declines in Executive Function (EF) are associated with balance in community-dwelling older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). While this has been examined in cross-sectional studies, no longitudinal studies describe change over time. The purpose of this study was to examine how performance on the components of the Short Physical Performa...

Quality of social relations have increasingly been recognized as an important factor in cognitive health in later adulthood. Less is known about the association of relationship quality with executive functioning (EF) and memory; and whether the links differ by race/ethnicity. In this paper, we investigated the associations between positive and nega...

Aim This study aims to examine the effect of concurrent mild and mild‐to‐moderate cognitive impairment with chronic diseases on hospital admission (HA) among community‐dwelling older adults. Method The National Health and Aging Trends Study (2011–2018), with 1225 respondents (each wave), were used. The number of HAs within 1 year was the outcome....

Background . The present study aimed to examine the long-term impact of CS on Executive Function (EF) and memory among older adults living in the community. Methods. Clock Drawing Test (CDT) and Delayed Word Recall Test (DWRT) were used to examine EF and memory, respectively, using four waves of National Health and Aging Trend Study. The respondent...

Mental disorders tend to be highly prevalent in war survivors. This paper examined the long-term impact of psychiatric disorders of war survivors on the level of health vulnerability among their female spouses. Interviews were conducted with a nationally representative sample of 653 of the partners of male war survivors with disabilities. The war s...

Iran will encounter rapid population aging, resulting from increased life expectancy and fluctuating fertility rates during its eight-year war with Iraq (1980–1988). The need for longterm care in Iran is expected to increase dramatically. The purpose of this paper is to examine Iran’s health care system and informal care upon discussing its demogra...

Iran will encounter rapid population aging, resulting from increased life expectancy and fluctuating fertility rates during its eight-year war with Iraq (1980–1988). The need for longterm care in Iran is expected to increase dramatically. The purpose of this paper is to examine Iran’s health care system and informal care upon discussing its demogra...

Overall social network size, often the sum of common lifetime relationships, including children, family, and friends, has been linked to cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's Disease. However, little research has examined the association between network size composition and cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults in the context of race/et...

Aim: Social engagement is known to serve an important role in cognitive health, but there has been limited information on the role of online engagement. The present study aimed to identify the benefits of different online activities for the cognitive function of older adults. Methods: Data came from the National Health and Aging Trend Study, Rou...

Aim. This paper aims to examine the impact of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) on the likelihood of hospital admission among Medicare beneficiaries. Method. The data were driven from five waves of National Health and Aging Trends Study (2011-2015). Zero-inflated Poisson was employed to examine the correlation between predictors and the frequency of...

Objective: This study aims to examine the relationship between different levels of cognitive impairment (CI) and the frequency of hospital admission (HA). Method: Data from the National Health and Aging Trend Study, Round 1 (2011), with 8,245 respondents from Medicare beneficiaries were used. The data account for the number of hospital admissions f...

This paper aims to assess the relationship between online social engagement and various levels of cognitive impairment among Medicare bene􀃗ciaries in 2010-2014, with the hypothesis that the level of cognitive impairment can be correlated with online social engagement. The data derive from National Health and Aging Trends Study (2010-2014). Con􀃗rmat...

Objectives: Tobacco smoking and physical inactivity are among leading behavioral risk factors for ill health in older adults. This study considers how smoking is associated with physical activity. Design: Using a Life-Course model, data are analyzed regarding this relationship, controlling for, and interacted with, life-course and other factors....

This article aims to determine how various health insurance policies affect the rate of emergency room (ER) referrals in the United States. The secondary data, gathered in National Health Measurement Study (NHMS) in 2008 and 2010, was used. The authors identify the relationships between health insurance and ER referrals by using zero-inflated binom...

Background Cognitive impairment, known as one of the factors that increase health care consumption, is one of the priority topics in the healthcare policy. However, we little know about the impact of cognitive impairment upon acute care, particularly hospital admission. This study aims to examine the effect of level of cognition on hospital admiss...

Physical activity is and important health-promotion measure for older adults. Life Course Theory is one important way to understand participation in physical activity in varied populations. In Life Course Theory there is the need to distinguish individual age from birth cohort and both from historical time. We report on research using Life Course T...

Objectives This paper aims to examine the relationships between HRQOL and various health insurance policies of the Americans forty years old or over. Methods The secondary data gathered by National Health Measurement Study (NHMS) in 2005 was used. HRQOL was measured by utilizing SF36. Linear regression was the method used in order to estimate the i...

Citation: Amini R (2012) Particular Emergency Department for Seniors. Emergency Medicine 2:e110. doi:10.4172/2165-7548.1000e110 Copyright: © 2012 Amini R. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the...

Background: More than 55,000 Iranians suffer from complications due to chemical warfare agent (CWA) exposure, which occurred during 8 years of conflict between Iran- Iraq. Limited studies have addressed the impact of this exposure to CWA on the quality of life of these victims. Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare health related quality o...

Objective: The purpose of present study is evaluation of correlation of quality of life dimension with mindfulness in blind veterans. Methods: In this cross sectional study 93 blind veterans were participated. SF36 and mindfulness scale are used for evaluation. Pearson correlation test is used for data analysis. Results: Mindfulness is correlated...

Health-related quality of life measurements are necessary tools for current situation assessment of all populations. They are absolutely beneficial for evaluation of rehabilitation services which are known as major clinical sources for improving quality of life in physically impaired patients.The design and implementation of this study involved det...

War is a known cause of tremendous physical injuries to different body organs, and eyes are not exceptions. War-related no visual acuity (NVA) affects both the victim and the family. Activity of daily living (ADL) can display personal life independency and is considered as a morbidity index. This study was designed to investigate the ADL profile of...

Introduction: during Iran-Iraq war about 40000 veterans and civilians were captured by Iraqis government. The aim of this survey was to assess employment problems and issues in the prisoners of war after about 20 years of returning. Methods: This qualitave study was based on focus-group discussion in Iranian prisoners of war after returning. The 7...

Health related quality of life would be one of the most effective criteria to assess current situation of a population and also is absolutely useful for health service evaluation. War has a huge effect on health and decreases quality of life in according to many physical and mental disabilities and limitations that are occurred by war. One of the m...

Mustard gas (MG) is one of the well-known chemical substances that have been used as chemical warfare agents. In the present study, the stage of change of physical activity and the total physical activity min/week of victims exposed to MG in Sardasht, Iran (1988) 20 years after exposure were measured. The aim of this study was to investigate the pr...

To describe the long-term health status of Sardasht civilians 20 years after sulfur mustard exposure, a historical cohort study was carried out in Sardasht (Iran) that included 372 exposed and 128 unexposed civilians. Their symptoms, diagnoses, drug use, and general health were compared. The most common complaints were about the respiratory system...

Sulfur mustard (SM) was the most common chemical warfare agent used by Iraqi military forces against Iranian soldiers and civilians in border towns. Studies about late skin complications in SM-exposed people and its comparison with those in a proper control group are limited. The present paper, which is a part of the Sardasht-Iran Cohort Study is c...

Introduction. The changes in blind locomotion originate in stress on musculoskeletal tissue and cause different musculoskeletal dysfunctions. This study aimed to determine epidemiology of musculoskeletal pain in blind veterans. Material and Methods. Data collection in this cross-sectional study was through questionair and physical examination from...