Jentashapir Journal of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Volume:2 Issue: 2, 2011

Back ground: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between communication skills and marital satisfaction. 75 married students of Clinical Psychology and Counseling, studying in Ahvaz Shahid Chamran University and ahvaz university of science research and technology participated in the study by Convenience sampling. Participants were requested to fill in Enrich marital satisfaction Inventory, Queendom communication skills Inventory as well as a demographic questionnaire. Mean and Standard Deviation (SD) age of subjects was 27.33 and 6.31 respectively. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation (by SPSS 16 versions). There are significant positive correlation between communication skills and its subscales with marital satisfaction. This study reveals that improving communication skills leads to marital satisfaction improvment.

Child hood obesity is a potentially risk factor for many health consequences, both in the short term and for their adult life. Few data of children obesity prevalence based on new WHO growth standards exist in Iran. In cross-sectional study 1035 children 2-5 years old attending 18 public health centers for routine health care were surveyed in 2009. Interview with mother, filling a questionnaire by trained questioner and measurement of weight and height by trained investigators were instruments for data collection. Soft ware of WHO for PL (WHO anthro version3 2006) used for data analysis after entrancing data in SPSS software. BMI/age above 2SD of median) Overall prevalence of overweight was 15%. This prevalence were 19.4%,12.6% and 12.4% in age group 24-35,36-47,48-60 months respectively. 16.7% of boys and 13.3% of girls Overall, 15% of the children studied were overweight. Highest prevalence of overweight was observed in the 35-24 month age group (19.4%). In different age groups of boys and girls, the prevalence of overweight was calculated16.7% and 13.3% respectively. Overall prevalence of obesity was 7.3%. Highest prevalence of obesity in the 35-24 month age group (10.4%) was observed. Prevalence of obesity in boys and girls was 9% and 5.6% respectively. Risk of overweight in children has reached alarming proportion in Ahwaz. Urgent public health strategies are needed to prevent childhood obesity.

Background and goals: Occupational accidents are one of the most important risk factors in industrial community which has adverse effects on economy, society and health. It should be prevented by some systematic methods and finding corrective measures. This study has used 5WH technique for systematic assessment of accidents in steel company for 4 years. The research was performed in workshops of steel company to analyze accidents for 4 years. 5WH determined how, what, why, where and when of accident. This method can identify fundamental weaknesses of safety system and their relation with unsafe acts and conditions. In total there were 130 recorded accidents. The highest frequency rate was in casting in 1384, 85 and 86, but it was in Eskelet felezy in1387. The effect of age, work experience, education and work shift assessed. Physical agents (noise and illumination) were surveyed too. The main cause of accidents was unsafe acts. Results of this research indicate that current accident recording system is not adequate, so it is necessary to concentrate on cause of accidents and find control measures for preventing, reducing or limiting of the results. Some suggestions contain: effective and continues education, supervision, providing guidelines, housekeeping and personal protective equipments.

Cigarette smoking can cause various physical, mental, financial and social damages to the health of human beings. Cigarette smoking is known as one of the most important risk factors of noninfectious diseases (especially cancers and cardiovascular). Mortality rate due to cigarette smoking is approximately 4 million deaths per year. The prevalence of cigarette smoking in men is 47% and in women 12%. This study was conducted to assess the prevalence and to evaluate cigarette smoking and its etiology in male students of Joundishapour medical Sciences university. This descrptive – analytical study was done on Jondishapour university male students. A total numbdr of 745 students were selected via random cluster sampling from Jondishapour university in 2007. Data collection was net by a questionnaire consisting of demogrphic data and information related to smoking causes and habits. The obtained data was statistically analyzed by SPSS software using chi – square test at the significant level (<0.05). Overall, 475 cases were studied; out of which 19.4% were smokers and 44.1% had experienced cigarette smoking. Data showed that there was significant relationship between smoking in samples and having smoker friends and family smoker members (P<0.05). There was signifacant relationship between smoking and demogrphic variables such as father and mother literacy, family size and birth rank (P<0.05). And also the results showed the age of usage smoking in study sample was 17-22 years old. More than 98.3% of persons under study have stated that they started smoking before the age of 25 year. 23.1% of the smoker students smoked more than 10 cigarettes per day. The most important cause of proneness to smoking was curiosity. This study showed that cigarette smoking is important health problem among college students. Its control need appropriate preventive programs in universities. As healty behaviors are being acquired, therefore they are educatable and changeable. One of the suitable policies in smoking prevention is knowledge and information promotion adolescents and young persons about disadvantages of smoking.

Cholera,an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae,is a historically feared epidemic diarrheal disease that remains a major public health problem in many parts of Africa,Asia, and Latin America.Vibrio cholerae 01 exists as two major serotypes,Inaba and Ogawa,a member of the family Vibrionaceae.Vibrio cholerae is transmitted through Fresh water contaminated with fecal matter.Foodborne infections have been traced to raw or inadequately cooked shellfish and other seafood.The target of study the Segregate Vibrio cholerae 01 (Vibrionaceae) in the Karun Ahvaz River.In four stages(April,may,June and July 2010), a total 100 samples of water from Karoon River Ahvaz were collected.During the study period the recorded river temperature was about 25-28°C and pH ranged from 7 to 8. water samples were collected, concentrated by centrifuge(6000 rpm), and enriched in alkaline peptone water (APW (1% peptone, 1% NaCl, pH 8.4–8.6)) for isolation of Vibrio spp. After 24h incubation were transported onto thiosulphate citrate bile sucrose, and morphological colonies compatible with Vibrio were characterized by oxidase test and agglutinated with antiserum (Difco, Detroit, MI, USA) for serotype determination.Also V. cholerae biochemical tests with API 20E (BioMerieux, Marcy-l’Etoile, France).Vibrio cholerae strains were isolated from 100 sampls of river waters.Of these,8 sample were found to Vibrio cholerae O1(inaba) and 7 sample were V.parahaemolyticus strains of Kroon River Ahvaz waters.The priorities for cholera control remain public health interventions through improved water and sanitation,improved surveillance and access to health care facilities,and further development of appropriate vaccines.

Department of Dermatology, Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz. Iran is theAlzheimer,s disease (AD) is a slowly, progressive Neurodegenerative disorder that most common cause of dementia in elderly people. Erythrocyte Aggregation Index was statistically lower in minor thalassemia carrieis 6 and minor thalassemia is associated with decreased blood viscosity and prevalence of arterial hypertension and myocardial infarction.As a conclusion, considering the fact that minor thlassemia is associated with low hematocrit, erythrocyte aggregation, it could be hypothesized that it may afford. Some Protection against Alzheimer.