Non-communicable Diseases Research Center

Year founded: 2016

The Non-communicable Diseases Research Center was founded in 2016 as an academic-research center to conduct research in non-communicable diseases and to use its academic and research achievements in health-policy making.

Research Priorities

• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Providing a protocol for diabetes bar based on the prescribed medications
• Reports on cardiac electrical impulses
• Examining the efficiency of the cardiac pace makers
• Examining possible ways for shortening procedure time during ablation
• The prevalence of asthma
• The prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Prevalence and the prevention of lung cancer
• Determining the geographic pathology of non-communicable diseases
• Determining the comorbidity of the diseases
• Determining the diseases and their risk factors with an emphasis on prevalent cancers in Fars province
• Presenting models and suggestions for clinical decision-makings in ICU, etc.
• Creating data models with repetitive measurements (cohorts and clinical trials)
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Determining the ratio of breast cancer in unmarried women compared to married women in the urban and rural population of Fars province in 2019-2020
• Determining the effect of eating pickled vegetables (Torshi) in stomach cancer, comparing the urban and rural population with the regular population of the region

Honors:

• Doing cohort studies in rich neighborhoods and Kharameh (a small town in Fars province)
• Negotiating with the Vice-chancellor for treatment and health to decrease the risk factors of non-communicable diseases

Director   Seyed Masoom Masoompour, MD Professor of Internal Medicine Sub-specialty in Pulmonary Diseases Download CV E-mail: masoomm@sums.ac.ir
Contact information:   Non-communicable Disease Research Center 1st floor, Mohammad Rasoul Allah Research Tower, Khalili St. Shiraz, Iran PO Box: 7193635899   Tel.: +98 71 36122302 Fax: +98 71 36122302 E-mail: non-communicable-DRC@sums.ac.ir