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BMC Public Health
January 2025
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Department of Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Shahid Hemmat Highway, Tehran, P.O Box: 14665-354, 1449614535, Iran.
Introduction: Although COVID-19 has altered various harms and exacerbated the prevalence of some of them, this period has also set the stage for the emergence of new harms. The present study aims to identify the emerging harms resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran.
Methods: The study was conducted using a qualitative content analysis approach through semi-structured interviews with 21 experts and professors knowledgeable about social harms and COVID-19 consequences who were selected through purposive and theoretical sampling.
BMC Med Educ
January 2025
University of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware Street SE, Mayo Building, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
Background: A common practice in assessment development, fundamental for fairness and consequently the validity of test score interpretations and uses, is to ascertain whether test items function equally across test-taker groups. Accordingly, we conducted differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, a psychometric procedure for detecting potential item bias, for three preclinical medical school foundational courses based on students' sex and race.
Methods: The sample included 520, 519, and 344 medical students for anatomy, histology, and physiology, respectively, collected from 2018 to 2020.
Acta Trop
January 2025
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the genetic diversity of Blastocystis. Additionally, it aimed to explore, for the first time in Iran, the potential association between Blastocystis infection and ABO blood groups. Another focus was to examine the relationship between Blastocystis subtypes and blood groups, an often overlooked risk factor, within the population of Alborz Province, Iran.
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January 2025
Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, (Tufts University School of Medicine), Boston, MA 02111, USA. Electronic address:
Cardiologists and gastroenterologists often encounter the coexistence of symptoms and functional abnormalities, but determining causation is more difficult. In 1962 Smith and Papp first coined the term "linked angina". Their statement was preceded by the experiment whereby increase in bile duct pressure elicited the typical chest pain in patients with ischemic heart disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Prosthet Dent
January 2025
Assistant Editor, Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry; Retired Clinical Professor of Prosthodontics and Occlusion, Department of Advanced Education in Prosthodontics, New York University, College of Dentistry, New York, NY. Electronic address:
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