| Literature DB >> 18298301 |
Fereydoun Davatchi1, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Ahmad-Reza Jamshidi, Cheyda Chams-Davatchi, Jaleh Gholami, Maziar Moradi, Massoomeh Akhlaghi, Mohammad-Hossein Foroozanfar, Mojgan Barghamdi, Elham Noorolahzadeh, Farideh Samadi, Mehrzad Hadj-Aliloo, Koorosh Ghaznavi, Koorosh Ghaznavi, Mohsen Soroosh, Alireza Khabazi, Amir-Hossein Salari, Sakineh-Khjatoon Sharif, Mansoor Karimifar, Mansoor Salessi, Kamal Essalat-Manesh, Abdolhadi Nadji, Farhad Shahram.
Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of oral aphthosis in a normal population in Iran, using the data of the WHO-ILAR COPCORD study in Iran. We conducted this study in Tehran, the capital of Iran which was selected as the COPCORD study field. In 22 districts of Tehran, 50 clusters were randomly selected. Of the selected houses, 4,096 households were visited and 10,291 persons were interviewed (response rate of 75%). Out of the 10291 subjects interviewed, 2592 had aphthous ulcers which translated to a prevalence of 25.2% (95% confidence interval: 24.4% to 26.0%). The prevalence of oral aphthosis was rather high in this normal population.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18298301 DOI： 08112/AIM.0016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Iran Med ISSN： 1029-2977 Impact factor: 1.354