Publications by authors named "Fatemeh Hajivalizadeh"
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- Adequate calcium intake is essential for bone health and osteoporosis prevention, especially for individuals aged 50 and older.
- A study of 1450 participants in Iran found that 62.9% had insufficient dietary calcium intake, with higher rates among women (75.5%) and those aged 65 or older (69.0%).
- The research highlighted a significant link between lower educational levels and socioeconomic status with increased prevalence of insufficient calcium intake, emphasizing the need for targeted dietary interventions.
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- The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of osteoporosis in the Iranian population aged 50 years and older through a systematic review and meta-analysis of relevant research.
- After reviewing 2117 documents, 10 studies were included, revealing a pooled prevalence of osteoporosis in various regions, with women showing higher rates than men.
- The findings emphasize the need for effective strategies to address the increasing issues of osteoporosis, particularly among older adults, as well as the relatively lower prevalence in the femoral neck region compared to spinal osteoporosis.
Background: Osteoporotic fractures can result in significant health complications and an increased risk of death. Registry studies could provide better treatment options and improve patient outcomes by providing useful information about the disease. The present study describes the protocol for an osteoporosis registry in Iran.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The World Osteoporosis Day inaugurate on October 20 every year by the International Osteoporosis Foundation to initiate bone health and osteoporosis as a global health agenda for policymakers, health care providers, and the public. The reported the campaigns activities in three years 2019, 2020, and 2021. The aim of this campaigns was to promote the osteoporosis awareness to close osteoporosis care and data gaps.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This paper presents the protocol of the 4 round of Iranian Multi-center Osteoporosis Study (IMOS), a national survey with the primary objective of estimating the prevalence of osteoporosis and sarcopenia and their risk factors in a representative sample of urban and rural populations.
Methods: The target population of the survey is all individuals ≥ 50 years in Iran. A multi-stage random sampling method has been used in the study.
Unlabelled: The main findings of this study on the self-care behaviors contain "identification of knowledge gaps," "established networking for seeking information," "information from trust-to-distrust," "information-seeking inhibiting factors," "information-seeking facilitating factors," and "self-care behaviors based on required knowledge."
Purpose: Health information-seeking behavior affects self-care and could promote quality of life and life expectancy. This study aimed at assessing health information-seeking and self-care behaviors of women with osteoporosis in Iran.
Hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA) is a condition caused by tetrahydrobiopterin (BH) and phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiencies. It is essential that differential diagnosis be conducted to distinguish these two causes of HPA, because BH deficiency is a more severe disease involving progressive neurologic deterioration. Based on the biological findings, HPA is defined as a plasma phenylalanine level of >2.
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