Performance of a rapid diagnostic test for screening of hepatitis C in a real-life prison setting.

Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) point-of-care testing using rapid diagnostic test (RDT) is the solution for large-scale, feasible, fast and reliable screening of HCV infection.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of HCV RDT for screening of HCV infection in a real-life prison setting.

Study Design: This study was conducted on individuals admitted and incarcerated in the Central Prison of Karaj, 2017-2018.

Revising the fasting glucose threshold for detection of cardiovascular risk factors: analysing two representative population-based studies of more than 50,000 Iranians in 3 years: The National Survey of Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases of Iran.

Objectives: To study the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors across different glycaemia strata and to assess the optimal cut-off value of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) to identify the constellation of cardiovascular risk factors.

Methods: Data of the National Survey of Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases of Iran (SURFNCD 2005-2007) were analysed. Prevalence rates of obesity, central obesity, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia of individuals with Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG) were compared with those of individuals with normal fasting glycaemia and newly diagnosed diabetes.

Successful control and impending elimination of measles in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Measles is still one of the most common infectious killers of children in the world, especially in developing countries. In Iran, during the prevaccine era, 150,000-500,000 cases of measles were reported annually, with a death rate of 10%-15%. After the establishment of Expanded Program on Immunization program in 1984, vaccination rates for the first and second doses of measles vaccine increased to >90% by the mid-1990s, and the number of measles cases decreased to 2652 in 1996.

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and risk factors associated with hypertension in the Iranian population: the national survey of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases of Iran.

Background: The prevalence of hypertension in the Middle East is not well defined. We examined the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in Iran.

Methods: The Survey of Risk Factors of Noncommunicable Diseases was conducted in 2005 and contains a representative sample of the Iranian adult population.

Prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in the adult population of Iran: National Survey of Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases of Iran.

Objective: Despite concerns regarding a diabetes epidemic in the Middle East, internationally published data on national estimates of prevalent type 2 diabetes in Iran do not exist. With this article, we document a dramatically high prevalence of diabetes in Iran.

Research Design And Methods: Our data are based on the results of the first Survey of Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases of Iran, 2005.