Jena Hamadani, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Andrew Baldi, Sheikh Jamal Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Stay-at-home orders (lockdowns) have been deployed globally to control COVID-19 transmission, and might impair economic conditions and mental health, and exacerbate risk of food insecurity and intimate partner violence. The effect of lockdowns in low-income and middle-income countries mu...
Imrul Kayes, Shihab Ahmad Shahriar, Kamrul Hasan, Md. Shamim Akhter et al.
Meteorological parameters play a significant role in affecting ambient air quality of an urban environment. As Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is one of the air pollution hotspot among the megacities in the world, however the potential meteorological influences on criteria air pollutants for ...
Shihab Ahmad Shahriar, Imrul Kayes, Kamrul Hasan, Mahadi Hasan et al.
Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) has major threats to global health, especially in urban regions around the world. Dhaka, Narayanganj and Gazipur of Bangladesh are positioned as top ranking polluted metropolitan cities in the world. This study assessed the performance of the application of hybrid...
Shihab Ahmad Shahriar, Imrul Kayes, Kamrul Hasan, Mohammed Abdus Salam et al.
Atmospheric particle pollution causes acute and chronic health effects. Predicting the concentrations of PM 2.5 and PM 10 , therefore, is a prerequisite to avoid the consequences and mitigate the complications. This research utilized the machine learning (ML) models such as linear-support vector mac...
Sant‐Rayn Pasricha, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Sabine Braat, Leila M Larson et al.
BACKGROUND: Universal provision of iron supplements (drops or syrup) or multiple micronutrient powders to young children in low-to-middle-income countries where anemia is prevalent is recommended by the World Health Organization and widely implemented. The functional benefits and safety of these int...
Leila M Larson, Sabine Braat, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Martin N. Mwangi et al.
The accuracy of haemoglobin concentration measurements is crucial for deriving global anaemia prevalence estimates and monitoring anaemia reduction strategies. In this analysis, we examined and quantified the factors affecting preanalytic and analytic variation in haemoglobin concentrations. Using c...
Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Sabine Braat, Michael J. Dibley et al.
INTRODUCTION: Anaemia is a major global health problem affecting about 43% of preschool children globally and 60% of 6-24-month-old children in rural Bangladesh, half of which is attributed to iron deficiency (ID). Although WHO recommends universal supplementation with iron or home fortification wit...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Fahmida Tofail, Shamima Shiraji et al.
Background Over 250 million children globally do not reach their developmental potential. We tested whether integrating a group-based, early childhood parenting program into government healthcare clinics improved children’s development, growth, and behavior. Methods We conducted a cluster-randomized...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Jena Derakshani Hamadani, Nur‐E Salveen, Mohammed Imrul Hasan et al.
This paper describes the process of adapting an early childhood development programme, with proven effectiveness in Bangladesh, for integration into government health services in rural Bangladesh. Through a three-stage process, we adapted an evidence-based, home-visiting, programme (Reach-Up and Lea...
G. M. Rabiul Islam, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Amare Worku Tadesse et al.
Environmental chromium exposure may cause impaired development of children. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis. Electronic databases including PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and CINAHL were searched to identify case-control studies that reported childhood Cr exposure and cognitive de...
Andrew Baldi, Sabine Braat, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Cavan Bennett et al.
Anemia is highly prevalent globally, especially in young children in low-income countries, where it often overlaps with a high burden of diarrheal disease. Distribution of iron interventions (as supplements or iron-containing multiple micronutrient powders, MNPs) is a key anemia reduction strategy. ...
Leila M Larson, Daniel Feuerriegel, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Sabine Braat et al.
BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency and anemia have been associated with poor cognition in children, yet the effects of iron supplementation on neurocognition remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to examine the effects of supplementation with iron on neural indices of habituation using auditory event-related...
Andrew Baldi, Sabine Braat, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Cavan Bennett et al.
Antibiotics may alter the gut microbiome, and this is one of the mechanisms by which antimicrobial resistance may be promoted. Suboptimal antimicrobial stewardship in Asia has been linked to antimicrobial resistance. We aim to examine the relationship between oral antibiotic use and composition and ...
Ola Sternäng, Katie Palmer, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Mohammed Imrul Hasan et al.
OBJECTIVES: We constructed a functional biological age (fBioAge) indicator by using four functional variables: grip strength, forced expiratory lung volume, visual acuity, and hearing. Our aim was to compare how chronological age (ChronAge) and fBioAge are related to cognitive abilities in older adu...
Zannat Kawser, Mohabbat Hossain, Sara Suliman, Shahin Lockman et al.
Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection is crucial to prevent its spread. This study aimed to document test sensitivity/specificity, correlation with cycle threshold value from polymerase chain reaction (PCR), fitness-for-use in different populations and settings, and user perspectives that could in...