Rebecca D. Merrill, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Hasmot Ali, Alain Labrique et al.
Iron deficiency was absent in a recent population assessment of rural Bangladeshi women exhibiting anemia (57%), suggesting other causes of low hemoglobin. We assessed the relative influence on anemia of thalassemia, groundwater arsenic and iron, and diet among women of reproductive age living in ru...
Saeed Anwar, Jarin Taslem Mourosi, S. M. Yasir Arafat, Mohammad Jakir Hosen
INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to assess the prevalence, sociodemographic factors, reproductive consequences, and heritable disease burdens associated with consanguineous marriage (CM) in Bangladesh. METHODS: A total of 7,312 families, including 3,694 CM-families, were recruited from 102 locales of ...
Sarah Bundey, H Alam, Amandeep Kaur, Samina Mir et al.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of consanguinity on children's health. DESIGN: The study is a prospective survey from birth to five years of a cohort of babies born in a multiracial community. This report details the initial findings on consanguinity. SETTING: ...
Prakaykaew Charunwatthana, Sophie Cohen, Bert‐Jan H. van den Born, Joost Meijers et al.
Severe falciparum malaria remains a major killer in tropical countries. Central in the pathophysiology is mechanical obstruction in the microcirculation caused by cytoadherence and sequestration of parasitized erythrocytes. However, the pathogenesis of many features complicating severe malaria, incl...
Faruk Ahmed, MR Khan, M Munirul Islam, I Kabir et al.
Objective To investigate the prevalence of anaemia and iron deficiency among adolescent schoolgirls in peri-urban Bangladesh, and to identify various factors associated with anaemia in this population. Design A cross-sectional design. Setting Girls' high schools in five sub-districts of Dhaka. Subje...
SM Ziauddin Hyder, Lars Åke Persson, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Bo Lönnerdal et al.
OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of anaemia and its association with measures of iron deficiency (ID) among a group of pregnant women. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Pregnant women identified through house-to-house visits and participating in community-based antenatal care activities in ...
Benedikt Ley, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, James J. O’Donnell, Mohammad Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase-deficiency (G6PDd) is a major risk factor for primaquine-induced haemolysis. There is a need for improved point-of-care and laboratory-based G6PD diagnostics to unsure safe use of primaquine. METHODS: G6PD activities of participants in a cross-sectional ...
Kamrul Hasan, Munirul M. Haque, Riddhiman Adib, Jannatul F Tumpa et al.
Blood hemoglobin level (Hgb) measurement has a vital role in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of numerous diseases. We describe the use of smartphone video imaging and an artificial neural network (ANN) system to estimate Hgb levels non-invasively. We recorded 10 second-300 frame fingertip ...
Margaret Lawson, Margaret Thomas, Anne Hardiman
Haemoglobin and ferritin values were analysed in blood from 1057 children, aged 2 years, of Asian parents living in England. Children who had thalassaemia trait or a current/recent infection were excluded. Twenty nine per cent of Pakistani, 25% of Bangladeshi, and 20% of Indian children had haemoglo...
Faruk Ahmed, Moududur Rahman Khan, Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman, Rezaul Karim et al.
Background Although iron deficiency is a major cause of anemia, other micronutrient deficiencies may also play a role. Objective We examined whether multiple micronutrient supplementation is more efficacious than is supplementation with iron and folic acid alone for improving the hemoglobin and iron...
Christine Lehmann, Sadia Islam, Stefan Jarosch, Juan Zhou et al.
Since iron can contribute to detrimental radical generating processes through the Fenton and Haber-Weiss reactions, it seems to be a reasonable approach to modulate iron-related pathways in inflammation. In the human organism a counterregulatory reduction in iron availability is observed during infl...
RobiulH Bhuiyan, Jannatul Aklima, Talha Bin Emran, Raju Dash et al.
Thalassemia is the name of a group of genetic, inherited disorders of the blood. More specifically, it is a disorder of the hemoglobin molecule inside the red blood cells. According to World health Organization (WHO), there are about 3% beta-thalassemia carrier and about 4% Hb E/beta-thalassemia car...
M. Mazharul Islam, Faisal Ababneh, Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan
This study examined the recent level, trends and determinants of consanguineous marriage in Jordan using time-series data from the Jordan Population and Family Health Surveys (JPFHSs). According to the 2012 JPFHS, 35% of all marriages were consanguineous in Jordan in 2012. There has been a declining...
Farjana Akther Noor, Nusrat Sultana, Golam Sarower Bhuyan, Md Tarikul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: ß-thalassemia is one of the most common inherited blood disorders in the world and a major deterrent to the public health of Bangladesh. The management of thalassemia patients requires lifelong frequent blood transfusion and the available treatment options are unsatisfactory. A national ...
Abid Hossain Mollah, Nazmun Nahar, Md Abu Siddique, Kazi Selim Anwar et al.
Transfusion-dependent children are more prone to acquiring various transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs), such as hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), HIV, and others. Since the magnitude of these infections among thalassaemic children in Bangladesh is not well-known, this study was conducted t...