Feasibility study of genetic refinement of litter size in sheep to reduce possible fraud - A provincial study by Mehdi Derakhshan, Karim Hasanpur, Arash Javanmard, Jalil Shodja

“…ObjectiveRecently, in East Azerbaijan province, marketing of top sheep carrying fertility genes became suspected, because some farmers complained about the claim of the seller due to the low performance of such ewes on the farm. …”
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Evaluation the accessibility of emergency care for traumatic children in emergency departments by Amir Hossein Jafari-Rouhi, Samad Shams vahdati, Asghar Jafari-Rouhi, Afshin Firuzi, Maryam Khameneh, Leila Vahedi

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the accessibility of emergency care for traumatic children in terms of management equipment, cause defects, and familiarity of medical staff with training programs.Methods: This descriptive-analytical study evaluated the emergency departments of all general hospitals in East Azerbaijan province during 2018, based on a checklist with 4 sections and 20 items, rated according to Likert scale from very high (scored 3) to very low (scored 0). …”
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Epidemiological study of pregnant women admitted to the emergency department by Seyedhossein Ojaghihaghighi, Samad Shams Vahdati, Simin Taghavi, Aydin Rahimzade Jahandari, Pegah Sepehri Majd, Mohammad Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari

“…Methods: In this retrospective study, the data including demographic information, chief complaint, the initial diagnosis, referral decision, final diagnosis, hospitalization outcome and pregnancy outcomes were studied on 239 pregnant women admitted to the emergency departments of the general hospitals of East Azerbaijan province. Results: The average age of patients was 27.54 years. …”
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Biochemical and physiological response of borage to seed priming and water deficit: antioxidant enzymes, osmolytes, photosynthetic pigments, and fluorescence parameters by Soheila Dastborhan, Kazem Ghassemi-Golezani, Andrzej Kalisz, Mostafa Valizadeh, Behnam Asgari Lajayer, Tessema Astatkie

“…Area of study: East Azerbaijan Province of Iran during the period 2012 and 2013. …”
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Occult Hepatitis B Infection among Hemodialysis Patients in Tabriz, Northwest of Iran: Prevalence and Mutations within the S Region by Narges Eslami, Vahdat Poortahmasebi, Javid Sadeghi, Reza Ghotaslou, Bahram Niknafs, Hossein Bannazadeh Baghi, Mahin Ahangar Oskouee

“…This study aims to determine the prevalence of OBI in HD patients in East Azerbaijan Province, northwest of Iran, and inquire about the mutations in the detected HBsAg. …”
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Relationship between DMFT index and reproductive history- a cross-sectional study on enrollment phase of Azar cohort study by Sahra Hefzollesan, Nasrin Sharififard, Zeinab Mahboobi, Elnaz Faramarzi

“…Methods The present cross-sectional study was performed using data of Azar Cohort Study conducted in 2014, in Shabestar city, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. In the present study, the data of all 8294 women from the enrollment phase of the Azar cohort were included. …”
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Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the aging population in the northeastern of Iran by Ali Fakhari, Sepideh Herizchi, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Shahrokh Amiri, Seyed Gholamreza Noorazar, Maryam Mirzajanzade, Habibeh Barzegar, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Hosein Azizi

“…We aimed to estimate the prevalence of various psychiatric disorders in the elderly population in East Azerbaijan Province, Tabriz. A total of 1000 aging people were randomly selected from the general population. …”
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Development and validation of an online tool for assessment of health care providers’ management of suspected malaria in an area, where transmission has been interrupted by Hosein Azizi, Reza Majdzadeh, Ayat Ahmadi, Ahmad Raeisi, Maryam Nazemipour, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Allan Schapira

“…Methods The study was conducted in East Azerbaijan Province, Islamic Republic of Iran, where no malaria transmission has been reported since 2005. …”
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Multi-scale habitat modeling framework for predicting the potential distribution of sheep gastrointestinal nematodes across Iran’s three distinct climatic zones: a MaxEnt machine-l... by Behnam Meshgi, Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd, Saeid Fathi, Galia Modabbernia, Kourosh Meshgi, Mohammad Shadman

“…The findings revealed that Guilan (34.2%) and East Azerbaijan (19.62%) exhibited the utmost proportion of Strongyle-type eggs. East Azerbaijan province also displayed the highest proportion of Marshallagia and Nematodirus, respectively (approximately 40% and 27%), followed by Guilan and Kerman provinces, while Kerman province had the highest proportion of Trichuris (approximately 15%). …”
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Senior nursing student’s confidence in learnt competencies and perceptions of patient safety competency: a multisite cross-sectional study by Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Vahid Zamanzadeh, Leila Valizadeh, Akram Ghahramanian, Mostafa Ghasempour, Tonia C Onyeka

“…Therefore, this study was conducted to determine senior nursing students’ confidence of their PS competencies, and associated predictive factors.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Four faculties from the nursing faculties of East Azerbaijan province.Participants 253 senior nursing students in Iran.Primary and secondary outcome measures Using the modified version of the Health Professional Education Patient Safety Survey, data related to the level of confidence of nursing students in acquired competencies in seven sociocultural dimensions of PS in classroom learning and clinical settings were collected. …”
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AZAR eye and vision cohort study by Mohammad Hossein Somi, Zeinab Nikniaz, Alireza Ostadrahimi, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Amir Mohammad Nourizadeh, Mohammad Mirzaei, Fateme Alipour, Fatemeh Jafari, Elnaz Faramarzi

“…AZAR Eye and Vision cohort is the ophthalmologic branch of AZAR cohort which is the largest eye cohort study in the country, which is trying to determine the prevalence and incidence of visual impairment, blindness, and other major ophthalmologic conditions and their associated risk factors in East Azerbaijan province located in Iran, a middle eastern country. …”
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Molecular Identification of Leishmania Species in Phlebotomus alexandri (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Western Iran by Abdollah Naghian, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi, Vahideh Moein-Vaziri, Yavar Rassi, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat, Ehsan Mostafavi, Arshad Veysi, Hassan Soleimani, Hossein Dehghan, Alireza Zahraei-Ramazani, Hossein Mirhendi, Mohammad Hassan Amini, Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Amir Ahmad Akhavan

“…Results of nested PCR showed, out of 9 samples from East Azerbaijan Province, only one sample was infected by Leishmania infantum. …”
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Comparative Genotyping of Echinococcus granulosus Infecting Livestock in Turkey and Iran by Afshin Barazesh, Bahador Sarkari, Galip Sarısu, Mehdi Hami, Fattaneh Mikaeili, Abdulalim Aydın, Abdurrahman Ekici, Sepideh Ebrahimi

“…The current study aimed to evaluate and compare the genotypic diversity of E. granulosus metacestodes from livestock of Turkey and Iran.Methods:A total of 90 livestock liver and lung organs infected with hydatid cyst from industrial slaughterhouses of Bonab Province in the East Azerbaijan Province in Iran (60 samples, including 30 sheep and 30 cattle) and Van Province in Turkey (30 samples, including 15 sheep and 15 cattle) were collected. …”
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PERSIAN traffic safety and health cohort: a population-based precrash cohort study by Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Mina Golestani, Morteza Ghojazadeh, Reza Mohammadi, Faramarz Pourasghar, Sajjad Ahmadi, Alireza Razzaghi, Mehdi Rezaei, Leila Vahedi, Alireza Shafiee-kandjani, Mohammad Meshkini, Fatemeh Jahanjoo, Mir Bahador Yazdani, Elham Davtalab Esmaeili, Ali Jafari-Khounigh

“…The PERSIAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort (PTSHC) was designed to assess the potential causal relationships between human factors and RTI mortality, injuries, severity of the injury, hospitalised injury, violation of traffic law as well as offer the strongest scientific evidence.Participants The precrash cohort study is carried out in four cities of Tabriz, Jolfa, Shabestar and Osku in East Azerbaijan province located in northwest Iran. The participants were people who sampled among the general population. …”
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Calibration and validation the SWAT model in the simulation of runoff and sediment in Shahr Chai of Miyaneh by Mohammad Hossein Rezaei Moghaddam, Davod Mokhtari, Majid shafieimehr

“…In the watershed of Shahar Chai, a soil map prepared by natural resources of East Azerbaijan province has been used. Based on these maps, 21 soil texture classes can be distinguished in the whole basin. …”
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Piezometric depth modeling of groundwater using monthly variables of precipitation and water consumption (case study: Sarab Plain aquifer) by Sepideh Khosravi, Ahmad Fakheri Fard, Yagob Dinpashoh

“…The area studied in this research is the Sarab Plain aquifer located in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. In the Sarab Plain and other plains of Iran, indiscriminate harvesting has led to a significant decline in the groundwater level (in other words, piezometric depth) and subsidence of the plain. …”
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Survey of spatial forms - physical city using quantitative models case study : sardroud city by Rasoul Ghorbani, mahdieh tahooni

“…By comparing the position of different economic sectors in Sardroud with East Azerbaijan province, the total growth rate of the reference economy in 1996-2006 has been equal to 1.6. …”
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Analysis of Electoral Geography in West Azerbaijan Province (apportionment, Gerrymandering) by ZAHRA PISHGAHI FARD, keramat ranjbar dastenaei

“…Conditions generality method 3- The evaluation method of the border change process 4- The inspection method 5- The preliminary comparison method 6- Clear superiority method and accordingly the division in the electoral areas of East Azerbaijan province is in the following categories. 1- Very high negative difference 2- High negative difference 3- Low negative difference 4- Very low negative difference 5- Normal 6- Very low positive difference 7- Low positive difference 8- High positive difference 9- Very high positive difference Results and Discussion The study of the variance of constituencies indicates that a very sparsely populated constituency with a large and representative Shahin Dej constituency and a densely populated and under-represented constituency of Urmia and Khoy and Charpareh do not have a suitable share ratio. …”
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Resilience Study of Rural Areas of Peri-Urbanization against Floods: A Case Study of the some rurals of midanchay village by Fariba Karami, Maryam Bayati khatibi, Narges Rostami Homaiolia

“…Due to having a close relationship with natural environment and a limited capacity to confront environmental threats, the rural societies and the related production activities have been exposed to natural destructive forces more than other societies. Since the East Azerbaijan Province is a submergible province in Iran and regarding the several-year experience obtained from the loss of life and property caused by floods, it seems necessary to change the attitudes from “exclusive focus on vulnerability reduction” to “increased resilience” against natural phenomena such as the occurrence of floods. …”
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Spatial distribution analysis of urban public services from the perspective of social justice in the spatial structure of Tabriz metropolis by sajjad racabi, Reza valizade, daryosh satarzadeh, ali panahi, ghorban Mahboubi

“…Introduction The metropolis of Tabriz is considered as one of the mother cities of Iran and the most populous city of East Azerbaijan province and the center of administrative and political services to the northwest of the country. …”
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