Prevention of Metabolic Disorders Research center
Research Priorities
Conducting research on:
- NCD risk factors and the impact of interventions on their prevention and treatment.
- Incidence and prevalence of the risk factors of metabolic disorders.
- Effective interventions for the prevention of metabolic diseases.
- Diabetes.
- Non-diabetic metabolic disorders in adults.
- Risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
- Childhood and adolescent metabolic disorders (non-congenital).
Important Activities
- Generating scientific knowledge through publishing research results (over 80 articles indexed in the ISI).
- Holding symposia, and metabolic disease workshops, in particular on diabetes and lipid disorders.
- Determining and confirming national cut off points of waist circumference for Iranian men and women with studies based on cardiovascular outcomes.
- Determining the validity of prognostic models used for research in cardiovascular, diabetes, and blood pressure diseases.
- Holding specialized epidemiology, statistics, and methodology workshops in non-communicable disease research