Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic Of Iran
مجله پزشکی جمهوری اسلامی ایران
Med J Islam Repub Iran
Medical Sciences
http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir
2
journal2
1016-1430
2251-6840
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10.18869/mjiri
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8888
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jalali
1392
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gregorian
2013
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Trend of diseases among Iranian pilgrims during five consecutive years based on a Syndromic Surveillance System in Hajj
Trauma Surgery
Trauma Surgery
Original Research
Original Research
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt text-align: justify text-justify: inter-ideograph"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>Background:</b>
Every year more than 2 million people depart from Iran to Saudi Arabia for Hajj
ritual which can be faced with some different diseases. There are not much
information about frequencies and trend of diseases in Hajj. The main objective
of this study was to determine the trend of prevalent diseases during five
consecutive Hajj rituals among Iranian pilgrims.<o:p /></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt text-align: justify text-justify: inter-ideograph"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>Methods:</b>
We established a specific surveillance system for all Iranian pilgrims who had
participated in Hajj from 2004 to 2008. We monitored the pilgrims’ health
status before departure, through their journey. The understudied diseases were
19 selected types of diseases in the Hajj. The occurrences of diseases were
recorded on a researchers-made questionnaire. We used chi-square test for analysis
with the alpha lower than 5% to reject the null hypothesis.<o:p /></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt text-align: justify text-justify: inter-ideograph"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>Results:</b>
During 5 consecutive periods, a total of 254,823 of Iranian pilgrims were
monitored for more common diseases with this system. The most prevalent
diseases were as follows: at least one type of respiratory involvement (71.26%),
common cold like syndrome (47.15%), and musculoskeletal disorders (18.67%), The
frequency of respiratory involvement was lower in 2006 than other years (p
<0.001).There were statistically significant differences between the numbers
of hospitalization and patients who were referred back to Iran with the year of
Hajj (p <0.001).<o:p /></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt text-align: justify text-justify: inter-ideograph"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Conclusion:</b>
Health managers should be informed about trend and frequency of more prevalent
diseases in Hajj. Easy access to health information via such surveillance
system can be possible.<o:p /></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font>
Disease, prevalence, respiratory disorders, Iran, Saudi Arabia
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http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-594&slc_lang=en&sid=1
Seyed Mansour
Razavi
razavy@sina.tums.ac.ir
20031947532846008978
20031947532846008978
No
Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ahmad
Sabouri-Kashani
Sabourika@yahoo.com
20031947532846008979
20031947532846008979
No
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hossein
Ziaee-Ardakani
drhziai@gmail.com
20031947532846008980
20031947532846008980
No
Department of Ophthalmology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran.
Aminreza
Tabatabaei
aminrezataba@yahoo.com
20031947532846008981
20031947532846008981
No
Hajj Medical Center, Tehran, Iran.
Mojgan
Karbakhsh
mkarbakh@tums.ac.ir
20031947532846008982
20031947532846008982
No
Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran.
Hamidreza
Sadeghipour
sadeghipour@sina.tums.ac.ir
20031947532846008983
20031947532846008983
No
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Seyed Abdolreza
Mortazavi-Tabatabaei
rtaba@yahoo.com
20031947532846008984
20031947532846008984
No
Proteomics Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Payman
Salamati
psalamati@sina.tums.ac.ir
20031947532846008985
20031947532846008985
Yes
Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.