During the past decades, as a result of better control of communicable diseases and achieving higher life expectancy, the global disease burden has continued to shift away from communicable to non-communicable diseases which now contribute to a major part of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and mortality worldwide.
We are delighted to announce that the PERSIAN Birth Cohort protocol (the methodological article) has been published online on December 2020. Please see below for the full text article:
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