Research Priorities

Conducting research on:

1. NCD risk factors and the impact of interventions on their prevention and treatment.
2. Incidence and prevalence of the risk factors of metabolic disorders.
3. Effective interventions for the prevention of metabolic diseases.
4. Diabetes.
5. Non-diabetic metabolic disorders in adults.
6. Risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
7. Childhood and adolescent metabolic disorders (non-congenital).

Important Activities

1. Generating scientific knowledge through publishing research results (over 80 articles indexed in the ISI).
2. Holding symposia, and metabolic disease workshops, in particular on diabetes and lipid disorders.
3. Determining and confirming national cut off points of waist circumference for Iranian men and women with studies based on cardiovascular outcomes.
4. Determining the validity of prognostic models used for research in cardiovascular, diabetes, and blood pressure diseases.
5. Holding specialized epidemiology, statistics, and methodology  workshops in non-communicable disease research