Ratan Dhar, Bhajan Kumar Biswas, G. Samanta, Badal Kumar Mandal et al.
Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Don Bandaranayake, Abdul Wadud Khan, Sayed Abdul Hadi et al.
Arsenic contamination of ground water has been found in Rajarampur village in the Nawabgonj district of north-western Bangladesh. A recent survey has indicated that 11% of tubewell water contains arsenic in the range 0.01 mg/l to 0.05 mg/l, and 29% above the WHO maximum permissible limit of 0.05 mg/...
Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Md Sayed, Sayed Abdul Hadi, MH Faruquee et al.
The study was carried out in a village in Jessore district, Bangladesh, to identify the epidemiological characteristics of arsenicosis. Eighty-seven per cent of the tubewells had arsenic concentration more than the WHO maximum permissible limit of 0.05 mg l-1. The mean arsenic concentration was 0.24...
Lisa C. Smith, Faheem A. Khan, Timothy R. Frankenberger, A.K.M. Abdul Wadud
Experimental impact evaluation methods have recently emerged as a dominant force within the development effectiveness movement. Although these methods have improved understanding of what works, their “gold standard” status threatens to exclude a large body of alternative evidence. This paper evaluat...
Farzana Akter Laboni, Md Wadud Ahmed, Abdul Kaium, Md. Khairul Alam et al.
The prevalence of heavy metals in frequently consumed vegetables constitutes a considerable public health hazard. This study aims to determine the quantity of heavy metals in widely consumed watercress (WC), alligator weed (AW), red amaranth (RA), spinach (SP), cauliflower (CF), and eggplant (EP) cu...
Khandker Md Nurus Sabah, Abdul Wadud Chowdhury, HI Luftur Rahman Khan, ATM Hasibul Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: To determine whether waist-to-height ratio correlates with coronary artery disease (CAD) severity better, than the body mass index (BMI) as assessed by coronary angiography in Bangladeshi population. METHODS: This cross sectional study was done on patients in Department of Cardiology in ...
Khalid Hussain, Shanto Rahman, Md. Mostafijur Rahman, Shah Mostafa Khaled et al.
Abstract Traditional image enhancement techniques produce different types of noise such as unnatural effects, over-enhancement, and artifacts, and these drawbacks become more prominent in enhancing dark images. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a dark image enhancement technique where local tr...
Surovi Kabir, Abdul Kaium, Md. Tazul Islam Chowdhury, Mohammed Ariful Islam et al.
The current study focused on quantifying hazardous heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Pb, Ni, and Zn) in soil-rice systems near the Buriganga River in Bangladesh to assess their impact on human health and the environment. The mean concentrations of As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Zn in soil exceeded FAO/WHO acceptable l...
Mahbubur Rahman, R. Chakraborti, Md. Abdullah Potol, Ariful Haque Abir et al.
BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting a large number of elderly people worldwide. The current therapies for PD are symptom-based; they do not provide a cure but improve the quality of life. Muscular dysfunction is the hallmark clinical feature of ...
Md. Faysal Ahamed, Md. Nahiduzzaman, Golam Mahmud, Fariya Bintay Shafi et al.
Malaria, which is spread via female Anopheles mosquitoes and is brought on by the Plasmodium parasite, persists as a serious illness, especially in areas with a high mosquito density. Traditional detection techniques, like examining blood samples with a microscope, tend to be labor-intensive, unreli...
Khandker Mohammad Nurus Sabah, Abdul Wadud Chowdhury, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Bishnu Pada Saha et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, each emergency physician faces amitriptyline overdose nearly a day. An acute cardiovascular complication, one of the worst complications is mainly responsible for the mortality in tricyclic overdose. Recently, we managed ventricular tachycardia in a young female presented ...
Mohsin Ahmed, Khandaker Abu Rubaiyat, Mohammed Saleh, Abdul Wadud Chowdhury et al.
Aims: Coronary artery disease is a devastating disease precisely because an otherwise healthy person in the prime of life may die or become disabled without warning. The objectives were to study the clinical profile, risk factors prevalence, angiographic distribution and severity of coronary artery ...
Abdul Wadud Chowdhury, Mohammed Saleh, Pratyay Hasan, Mohammad Gaffar Amin et al.
Atypical presentations of common diseases are often difficult to identify in time, nonetheless necessary, especially in cases of diseases like ischemic heart disease (IHD) which otherwise may progress into irreversible stage and ultimately, fatality, in the absence of timely administered medical tre...
Nasima Akther Roshni, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Md Abdul Wadud, Ahmed Khairul Hasan et al.
Mohoshina Karim, Abdul Wadud Khan, Shayela Farah
Ibrahim Cardiac Medical Journal 2011; 1(2): 45-49 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/icmj.v1i2.13560