Dietary nitrate may have a role in development of gastro-esophageal reflux diseaseSiavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, North Kargar Ave, Tehran 14117, Iran
Arch Iran Med 14:312-4. 2011
..The reason for this, as well as its exact pathophysiologic mechanisms are yet unknown. In this ecologic study we assessed the relation between water nitrate content and prevalence of GERD in Tehran, Iran...
- Oral nitrate reductase activity and erosive gastro-esophageal reflux disease: a nitrate hypothesis for GERD pathogenesis
Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, North Kargar Ave, Tehran, 14117, Iran
Dig Dis Sci 57:413-8. 2012
..We hypothesized that nitrate reductase activity is higher in patients with erosive GERD, delivering more nitrite at the gastroesophageal-junction for a given nitrate intake...
Lower esophagus in dyspeptic Iranian patients: a prospective studySiavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 18:315-21. 2003
..We prospectively studied the prevalence of clinical, histological and endoscopic GERD, and premalignant changes among dyspeptic Iranian patients referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGIE)...
- Epidemiology of uninvestigated gastrointestinal symptoms in adolescents: a population-based study applying the Rome II questionnaire
Sahand Sohrabi
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 51:41-5. 2010
..Epidemiologic data on adolescence GI disorders are scarce. We aimed to perform a population-based study to assess the prevalence of GI symptoms in adolescents and their relation to sex, age, and socioeconomic status...
Prospective Acid Reflux Study of Iran (PARSI): methodology and study designSiavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Center DDRC, Shariati Hospital, Medical Sciences University of Tehran, North Kargar Ave, Tehran, Iran
BMC Gastroenterol 7:42. 2007
..This is especially prominent when looking at non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) patients...
- Reversibility of cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B
Reza Malekzadeh
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2:344-7. 2004
..Hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis are the consequences of many types of chronic liver disease, and, at its final stage when liver nodule and scarring develop, they are generally considered to be irreversible...
- Impact of immunosuppressive treatment on liver fibrosis in autoimmune hepatitis
Mehdi Mohamadnejad
Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Dig Dis Sci 50:547-51. 2005
..Fibrosis commonly improves after immunosuppressive treatment in AIH. ALT-to-platelet ratio can predict accurately the presence of significant fibrosis and cirrhosis in AIH...
- Epidemiology of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms in Tehran, Iran: a population-based telephone survey
Mehdi Nouraie
Digestive Disease Research Center DDRC, Shariati Hospital, Medical Sciences Tehran University, North Karegar Avenue, Tehran 14117, Iran
Arch Iran Med 10:289-94. 2007
..Our objective was to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms and clinical spectrum of GERD in Tehran, northern Iran and their association with patient characteristics...
- The normal range of duodenal intraepithelial lymphocytes
Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Arch Iran Med 11:136-42. 2008
..Available studies suggest a wide normal range (10 - 40 intraepithelial lymphocytes /100 epithelial cells, EC). We assessed the normal range of distal duodenal intraepithelial lymphocytes...
- Opium use and mortality in Golestan Cohort Study: prospective cohort study of 50,000 adults in Iran
Hooman Khademi
Digestive Disease Research Centre, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
BMJ 344:e2502. 2012
..To investigate the association between opium use and subsequent risk of death...
- Overlapping gastroesophageal reflux disease and irritable bowel syndrome: increased dysfunctional symptoms
Shadi Sadeghi Yarandi
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, North Karegar Ave, Tehran, 14117, Iran
World J Gastroenterol 16:1232-8. 2010
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- Diagnostic accuracy of age and alarm symptoms for upper GI malignancy in patients with dyspepsia in a GI clinic: a 7-year cross-sectional study
Hooman Khademi
Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
PLoS ONE 7:e39173. 2012
..We investigated whether using demographic characteristics and alarm symptoms can accurately predict cancer in patients with dyspepsia in Iran, where upper GI cancers and H. pylori infection are common...
- Clinical features and long term outcome of 102 treated autoimmune hepatitis patients
Zinab Malekzadeh
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
Hepat Mon 12:92-9. 2012
..There is limited data on the natural history of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and on the long-term follow-up of AIH patients who have been referred for regular medical attention...
- Hygiene could affect GERD prevalence independently: a population-based study in Tehran
Mehdi Nouraie
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Medical Sciences University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Am J Gastroenterol 102:1353-60. 2007
..Population-based data on gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in Iran are limited. Current study is going to determine the prevalence of GERD in Tehran, Iran, and its association with potential risk factors...
- Socio-economic status and oesophageal cancer: results from a population-based case-control study in a high-risk area
Farhad Islami
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Epidemiol 38:978-88. 2009
..We examined a wide range of SES indicators to investigate the association between different SES components and risk of OSCC in the region...
- Helicobacter pylori reinfection rate 3 years after successful eradication
Nasrin Zendehdel
Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:401-4. 2005
..CONCLUSIONS: According to our data, in our region the HP reinfection rate is 20.4% 3 years after successful eradication...
- Reversibility of cirrhosis in autoimmune hepatitis
Reza Malekzadeh
Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Am J Med 117:125-9. 2004
- Prevalence and precipitating factors of gastroesophageal reflux disease in a young population of Tabriz, Northwest of Iran
Mohammad H Somi
Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Saudi Med J 27:1878-81. 2006
..To estimate the prevalence and clinical spectrum of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in a young population and evaluate the risk factors...
- Crohn's disease and early exposure to domestic refrigeration
Fatemeh Malekzadeh
Digestive Disease Research Center, Medical Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
PLoS ONE 4:e4288. 2009
..Recently, it has been suggested that refrigerated food could be involved in disease development. We thus conducted a pilot case control study to explore the association of CD with the exposure to domestic refrigeration in childhood...
- A case-control study on risk factors of osteoporosisin patients with Crohn's disease
Homayoun Vahedi
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Medical Sciences University of Tehran, Iran
Arch Iran Med 12:570-5. 2009
..Osteoporosis has been frequently reported in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, especially Crohn's disease...
- Esophageal and cardia cancers summit: report of the first meeting
Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Arch Iran Med 9:442-9. 2006
- Coeliac disease is the most common cause of chronic diarrhoea in Iran
Bijan Shahbazkhani
Digestive Disease Research Centre, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 16:665-8. 2004
..One patient did not follow a GFD. CONCLUSION: CD is the most common cause of adult chronic non-bloody diarrhoea in Tehran...
- Percutaneous needle aspiration, injection, and re-aspiration with or without benzimidazole coverage for uncomplicated hepatic hydatid cysts
Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Centre, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, North Kargar Street, Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 14117
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 1:CD003623. 2011
..However, the puncture, aspiration, injection, and re-aspiration (PAIR) method with or without benzimidazole coverage has appeared as an alternative over the past decade...
- "Systematic review": is it different from the "traditional review"?
Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam
Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Arch Iran Med 9:196-9. 2006
