Kurosh Djafarian
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
260 Papers
260 Citations
Kurosh Djafarian is an academic researcher from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 200 publications. Previous affiliations of Kurosh Djafarian include University of Tehran & University of Aberdeen.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Validation of simple epidemiological or clinical methods for the measurement of body composition in young children.
TL;DR: Estimates of body fatness in preschool children were inaccurate at the level of the individual child using all the methods, but DXA might provide unbiased estimates and a means of making relative assessments of bodyfatness.
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The effects of chromium supplementation on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.
TL;DR: The present meta-analysis of RCTs did not show the beneficial effects of chromium supplementation on BP in adults, and a random-effects model was used to compute weighted mean differences with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
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The association between the Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2015) score and body composition among Iranian soccer players and referees: a cross-sectional study
Mohammad Beba,Tohid Seif-Barghi,Sakineh Shab-Bidar,Habib Yarizadeh,Aliyu Jibril Tijani,Cain C T Clark,Kurosh Djafarian +6 more
TL;DR: The mean overall score for the HEi-2015 shows that Iranian soccer players and referees have an acceptable quality of diet, and significant associations between the HEI-2015 score and different body composition parameters in male soccer playersand referees are found.
Resveratrol supplementation and flow-mediated dilation: a systematic review
TL;DR: The findings suggest that pure resveratrol supplementation may have beneficial effects on endothelium dependent vasodilatation indicator, FMD.
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Major dietary patterns and metabolic syndrome associated with severity of coronary artery disease: A structural equation modeling.
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the relationship between major dietary patterns and the severity of coronary artery disease among newly discovered patients by using structural equation modeling (SEM) and found that unhealthy dietary patterns have a significant positive direct association with the severity, which is indirectly mediated by the presence of metabolic syndrome.
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