Publications by authors named "Kamyar Rezaee"
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- Alcohol has been banned in Iran for over 40 years, leading to underreported consumption; a study surveyed 27,874 adults to assess actual alcohol use and its contributing factors.
- The study found a lifetime alcohol consumption prevalence of 6.9%, with significant differences between men (13.7%) and women (1.4%); the average per capita consumption was 0.12 liters.
- Factors like being a smoker, younger age, higher wealth, and education levels correlated with increased alcohol consumption, as well as links to health issues like heart attacks and physical injuries, prompting the need for targeted preventive measures.
Following global commitments to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, we sought to estimate national and sub-national trends in diabetes mortality in Iran and assess its association with socioeconomic factors. In a systematic analytical study, to assess the correlation between diabetes mortality and socioeconomic factors, we used data obtained from the Death Registration System (DRS), the Spatio-temporal model and Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) levels and the diabetes mortality trends, which were estimated by sex, age and year at national and sub-national levels from 1990 to 2015. Between the years 1990 and 2015, the age-standardized diabetes mortality rate (per 100,000) increased from 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: To integrate and execute a proper preventive plan and reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), policy makers need to have access to both reliable data and a unique definition of metabolic syndrome (MetS). This study was conducted on the data collected by cross-sectional studies of WHO's STEPwise approach to surveillance of NCD risk factors (STEPs) to estimate the national and sub-national prevalence rates of MetS in Iran in 2016.
Materials And Methods: The prevalence of MetS was estimated among 18,414 individuals aged ≥25 years living in urban and rural areas of Iran using various definition criteria; National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III 2004 (ATP III), International Diabetes Federation (IDF), American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (AHA/NHLBI), Joint Interim Statement (JIS).
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- - The study investigates under-five mortality rates due to nutritional deficiencies in Iran between 1995 and 2015, using death registration data to assess trends and specific rates by age and sex.
- - Findings reveal a significant decline in mortality rates, with national figures dropping from 8.53 per 100,000 in 1995 to 0.37 in 2015, and the highest provincial rate decreasing from 17.7 to 1.1 in the same period.
- - The primary cause of these deaths was found to be protein-energy malnutrition (PEM), highlighting ongoing public health challenges despite overall improvements in mortality rates for this age group.
Physical activity profile of the Iranian population: STEPS survey, 2016.
BMC Public Health
September 2019
Background: Insufficient physical activity (IPA) is one of the leading causes of premature mortality through the increased burden of non-communicable diseases. From 1990 to 2017, the percentage of low physical activity attributable disability-adjusted life years (DALY) increased globally by 1.5 times and 2-fold in Iran, causing more than 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Iran lacks a population level comprehensive assessment of stroke epidemiology. Using data from the NASBOD Study, we estimated the mortality of stroke among the Iranian population from 1990 to 2015.
Methods: Data were collected from all the available sources including the national death registration system and two major cemeteries.