Leen Abu‐Safieh, May Alrashed, Shamsa Anazi, Hisham Alkuraya et al.
Retinal dystrophy (RD) is a heterogeneous group of hereditary diseases caused by loss of photoreceptor function and contributes significantly to the etiology of blindness globally but especially in the industrialized world. The extreme locus and allelic heterogeneity of these disorders poses a major...
Ali A. Rabaan, Shamsah H. Al-Ahmed, Javed Muhammad, Amjad Khan et al.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a severe pandemic of the current century. The vicious tentacles of the disease have been disseminated worldwide with unknown complications and repercussions. Advanced COVID-19 syndrome is ...
Liang-Chia Chen, Melita Gesche, Shamsa Ahmed, A. I. Chowdhury et al.
Studies were carried out by the Cholera Research Laboratory to investigate maternal mortality in rural Bangladesh. In the 1st study field workers interviewed the closest relative of every reported deceased female in the reproductive age group to diagnose the probable cause of death. The 2nd investig...
Liang-Chia Chen, Shamsa Ahmed, Melita Gesche, W. Henry Mosley
Abstract A group of 209 married, fecund women in rural Bangladesh were studied prospectively for 24 months from 1969 to 1971 to define some of the biological and sociological factors relating to fertility performance. These women were selected from a larger study population of 112,000 that had been ...
Ali A. Rabaan, Shamsah H. Al-Ahmed, Mohammed Garout, Ayman M. Al‐Qaaneh et al.
The pathogenesis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is still not fully unraveled. Though preventive vaccines and treatment methods are out on the market, a specific cure for the disease has not been discovered. Recent inves...
Liang-Chia Chen, Shamsa Ahmed, Melita Gesche, W. Henry Mosley
Abdullah Al Mahfazur Rahman, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, Norbahiah Misran et al.
Shamsad Sharmin, Md Badrul Islam, Barun Kanti Saha, Firoz Ahmed et al.
Nanotechnology has become a cutting-edge field of research that has emerged as an interdisciplinary research area and contributes to almost every field of science. With the increasing demand for sustainable greener products, attention has recently been focused on green nanotechnology. This study man...
Ali A. Rabaan, Rehab Bukhamsin, Hajir AlSaihati, Saleh Alshamrani et al.
Conventional anticancer treatments, such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy, have significantly improved cancer therapy. Nevertheless, the existing traditional anticancer treatments have been reported to cause serious side effects and resistance to cancer and even to severely affect the quality of lif...
Evelyn Hsieh, Dana Bryazka, Kanyin Liane Ong, Phoebe-Anne Rhinehart et al.
BACKGROUND: Fractures related to osteoporosis and low bone mineral density lead to substantial morbidity, mortality, and cost to individuals and health systems. Here we present the most up-to-date global, regional, and national estimates of the contribution of low bone mineral density to the burden ...
Md Shakibul Hasan, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Md Samsuzzaman, Fawzi Alorifi et al.
M Shamsad, Murad Ahmed Farukh, M Z R Chowdhury, Shyamal Chandra Basak
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world and is a victim of frequent natural calamities like tropical cyclones, tornadoes, floods, storm surges and droughts. Sea surface temperature (SST) plays a vital role in determining ocean-atmosphere interaction. In this study we focu...
Ahmed Waqas, Shamsa Zafar, Deborah A. Lawlor, John Wright et al.
The present study aims to: a) systematically map the of birth cohort studies from the South Asian region b) examine the major research foci and landmark contributions from these cohorts using reproducible scientometric techniques and c) offer recommendations on establishing new birth cohorts in Paki...
Lailatul Ferdousi, Animesh K. Gain, Ummey Hafsa Bithi, Mohajira Begum et al.
Scylla olivacea , or the mud crab, is a crucial economic contributor in Southeast Asia, notably in the coastal region of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta. This study compared the nutritional and heavy metals of fattened and wild-captured mud crabs from the southwest coastal areas of the Ganges-Brahmaput...
Munir Ahmed, Jennifer L. Patnaik, Noelle Whitestone, Mohammad Awlad Hossain et al.
PURPOSE: This study assesses the prevalence and the causes of visual impairment among bus drivers undergoing screening in Bangladesh and associations with self-reported crashes. METHODS: Eye health screenings including refraction and questionnaires were conducted at 10 bus terminals in 7 districts o...