Iranian Legal Medicine Organization Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine 1027-1457 2383-0034 12 3 2006 9 1 131 135 FA p-rajabi@med.mui.ac.ir Y http://sjfm.ir/article-1-116-en.html http://sjfm.ir/article-1-116-en.pdf

Iranian Legal Medicine Organization Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine 1027-1457 2383-0034 12 3 2006 9 1 135 138 FA saiidmohammadian@yahoo.com Y http://sjfm.ir/article-1-117-en.html http://sjfm.ir/article-1-117-en.pdf

Iranian Legal Medicine Organization Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine 1027-1457 2383-0034 12 3 2006 9 1 Study of relationship between different kinds of finger print and blood pressure in infected and non-infected patients afflicted with blood pressure, hospitalized at Ali Ebn Abitaleb Hospital in Rafsanjan, in second half of 2002 139 143 FA Y N Background & Aim: Conceding the wide effect of high blood pressure on different organs of body & its different complications and as this disease doesn’t have any signs and people don’t aware about their dieses when they are affected by finger print & modifying the association between that & finger print , it is possible to diagnose the disease on them & take the right treatments. Materials & Methods: In this research which was case-control research we collected fingerprints from 100 persons that were at Ali-Ebn-Abitaleb Hospital and 100 normal persons that the same paper is used and characteristic in two group classified in 3 categories: whirl Arch loop and from the SPSS and t-test method was made for statistic analysis. Results: Results showed from 2000 samples of finger print that were taken from 100 persons that had blood pressure and 100 persons that didn’t have blood pressure, the average loop fingerprint in blood pressure group was 3.82± 2.27 and in non blood pressure group 6.5 ± 1.81 that has the significance deterrence (P value=0.023). The average Whirl fingerprint in blood pressure group was 4.73 ± 2.59 and in none blood pressure group was 2.29±1.93 that has the significances difference (P value= 0.002) and the average arch finger print in blood pressure group was 1.43±1.55 and in none blood pressure group was 1.04+0.93 that has the significance difference. (P value=0.0001). Conclusion: Among fingerprints and high blood pressure are relationships and on the basis of the resolutions of research possibility of taking to high blood pressure in people that have whirl fingerprint is more. Finger Print, Blood pressure, Dermatoglyphic http://sjfm.ir/article-1-118-en.html http://sjfm.ir/article-1-118-en.pdf

Iranian Legal Medicine Organization Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine 1027-1457 2383-0034 12 3 2006 9 1 The evaluation of the degree of occupational stress and factors influencing it in forensic physicians working in Legal Medicine Organization in Tehran in the autumn of 2005 144 150 FA N N N N famiri52@yahoo.com Y Background & Aim: Job stress is defined as inconsistency between occupational demands and individual abilities, capabilities, and wishes. Job stress leads to different physical, mental, and behavioral outcomes and complications. Physicians who work in legal medicine organization, due to the nature and characteristics of their job, confront with various stressors. This study has been designed in order to identify the frequency of job stress in physicians working in Tehran Legal Medicine Organization. Materials & Methods: In a cross-sectional tudy, in the autumn of 2005 we identified the frequency of job stress in physicians working in Tehran Legal Medicine Organization. For measuring the degree of stress, we used Osipow questionnaire, and for analysis of gathered data, we used SPSS (Ver. 11.5). In order to find the relationship between variables and degree of stress, T-test was used. In all statistical analysis, type one error was considered 0.05. Results: Out of 110 physicians working in forensic medicine organization who fulfilled inclusion criteria, 81 persons answered to the questionnaire (degree of responsiveness: 74%). The greatest mean of stressor was related to role ambiguity (28.2%) and responsibility (26.9%). The rate of stress was more frequent in older than younger persons, and also it was more frequent in specialists and those with more duration of employment than general physicians and those with less duration of employment. Men also suffered more stress than women and these results were statistically significant. Questionnaire reliability was tested by Cronbach' α and was 0.83. Conclusion: As mentioned the most frequent stressors were role ambiguity and responsibility, so it is recommended that in order to reduce stress, occupational duties of physicians become more obvious and the organization introduces more information to them and support them more properly. Job stress, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine), Stressor, Strain http://sjfm.ir/article-1-119-en.html http://sjfm.ir/article-1-119-en.pdf

Iranian Legal Medicine Organization Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine 1027-1457 2383-0034 12 3 2006 9 1 151 157 FA ardeshirsheikhazadi@yahoo.com Y N http://sjfm.ir/article-1-120-en.html http://sjfm.ir/article-1-120-en.pdf

Iranian Legal Medicine Organization Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine 1027-1457 2383-0034 12 3 2006 9 1 Descriptive Epidemiology of accidents in Yazd province in 1383 158 161 FA hofaab@yahoo.com Y Background & Aim: driving accidents are one of the most important problems which threaded the humans health. The role of motor vehicles accidents were changed from bottom of the causes of the death to top. Regarding to unexpected increasing of motor vehicles and high prevalence the death due to accidents in Yazd province, we designed this study with the aim of epidemiology of accidents in Yazd in 1383. Materials & Methods: This descriptive study carried out using available information in Yazd traffic police department. Results: The results of this study showed that , the total number of accidents in Yazd were 8234 cases, which were divided in to three categories 66.1% of the accidents were known to be destruct then came accidents which led to injuries (29.9%) and the third category of accidents were those which led to death (3.9%). Most of the drivers (32.2%) were between 18-24 years old and then (30.8%) were between 25 -34 years old. 92.5% of drivers were male and 7.5% was female. The cause of accidents (34.4%) were non-observance of the righ of priority, and (8.01%) was back ward moving , 4.1% was left and right deviation and 5.1% was un attention to logical interval . According to the results, only 3.1% of drivers had been used seatbelt and only 4.1% of motorcyclists had been used helmet. Conclusion: Regarding the results of this study, education of traffic principles and true driving to students and public, in addition to taking suitable policies for prevention of driving accidents is recommended. accidents, motors vehicles,Yazd, traffic http://sjfm.ir/article-1-121-en.html http://sjfm.ir/article-1-121-en.pdf

Iranian Legal Medicine Organization Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine 1027-1457 2383-0034 12 3 2006 9 1 162 163 FA eftekhari-rad@yahoo.com Y http://sjfm.ir/article-1-122-en.html http://sjfm.ir/article-1-122-en.pdf