STEPwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surveillance
The Islamic Republic of Iran has conducted yearly national STEPS surveys since 2005.
Click on the links below to access the STEPS reports [in English or Persian], the data book or the journal articles from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Country Reports and Data Book
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2005 STEPS Survey Report [in English]
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2005 STEPS Survey Report [in Persian]
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2007 STEPS Survey Report [in English]
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2009 STEPS Data Book
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Journal Articles
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2005 STEPS Survey Article: First nationwide survey of prevalence of overweight, underweight and abdominal obesity in Iranian adults
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2005 STEPS Survey Article: Association of body mass index and abdominal obesity with marital status in adults
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2005 STEPS Survey Article: Secular trend of height variations in Iranian population born between 1940 and 1984
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2005 STEPS Survey Article: A province-based surveillance system for the risk factors on non-communicable diseases: A prototype for integration of risk factor surveillance into primary healthcare systems of developing countries
pdf, 134kb - 2005 STEPS Survey Article: Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and risk factors associated with hypertension in the Iranian population: the national survey of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases of Iran
- 2005 STEPS Survey Article: Prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in the adult population of Iran: national survey of risk factors for non-communicable diseases of Iran
- 2005 STEPS Survey Article: Obesity and associated lifestyle behaviours in Iran: findings from the first national non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance survey
- 2006 STEPS Survey Article: Social disparities in prevalence, treatment and control of hypertension in Iran: Second national surveillance of risk factors of NCDs, 2006
- 2007 STEPS Survey Article: First Nationwide Study of the Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome and Optimal Cutoff Points of Waist Circumference in the Middle East_The National Survey of Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases of Iran
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2007 STEPS Survey Article: The first cut-off points for generalized and abdominal obesity in predicting lipid disorders in a nationally representative population in the Middle East: The National Survey of Risk Factors for NCDs of Iran
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2007 STEPS Survey Article: Pattern of tobacco use among the Iranian adult population: results of the national Survey of Risk Factors of NCDs (SuRFNCD-2007)
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2007 STEPS Survey Article: Association between physical activity and insulin resistance in Iranian adults: National Surveillance of Risk Factors of NCDs (SuRFNCD-2007)
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2007 STEPS Survey Article: Optimal cut-off for HOMA_IR for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome: third national surveillance of risk factors of NCDs in Iran (SuRFNCD-2007)
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