The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use in the general population of Babol, North of Iran, 2018.

Background: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) have recently become more popular and accepted worldwide. One principal step to identify the status and organize strategies of CAM is evaluating the manner and the prevalence of its usage among people. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of CAM modalities usage by the people of Babol, a central city in the North of Iran, in 2018.

Using Routine Data to Categorize Poor Control Diabetic Patients: An Application of Cluster Analysis Technique.

Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality all over the world. Chronic high blood glucose is the root cause of developing future micro and macro vascular complications. In current study, we analyzed poorly controlled patients' information by clustering method in order to find more homogenous sub-groups of patients for planning for further interventions.