Publications by authors named "Firouzeh Hajipour"
Background: 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 PDFAims: Skeletal muscle wasting is affected by the gut microbiota dysbiosis through multiple pathways, including inflammatory process, defected immune system, and anabolic resistance. We aimed to systematically review the studies investigating the gut microbiota composition in sarcopenic and cachexic humans and animals.
Methods: We carried out a comprehensively systematic search using relevant keywords on PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases until July 2021.
Article Synopsis
- The study examines the relationship between different obesity phenotypes and bone health in an elderly population, focusing on osteoporosis and bone density.
- Using data from the Bushehr Elderly Health Program, participants were categorized into four obesity groups based on metabolic health status to analyze their risk of osteoporosis and bone quality.
- Findings indicate that regardless of obesity phenotype, individuals with obesity generally exhibit lower bone quality, revealing the need for further investigation into how metabolic factors influence bone health.
Introduction: Academic institutions are the most important organizations for implementation of internationalization policies and practices for integrating an international, intercultural and global dimension in higher education system. Also, a globally increasing demand for higher education has been seen in the past two decades so that the number of students enrolled in higher education institutions in the worldwide nation-states has increased dramatically. The National Plan of International Development of Medical Education was designed with the aim of identifying available potentials in all the universities of medical sciences, encouraging the development of international standards of medical education, and planning for the utilization of the existing capacity in Islamic republic of Iran.
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