Md. A. Rahman, Ikramul Hasan, BK Sajeeb, Farhanul Islam et al.
Among many mosquito control approaches, the use of mosquito coil is popular because of its cost effectiveness and ease of use. But along with repelling mosquitoes, the burning of mosquito coils can cause severe health hazard. In mosquito coils, pyrethrin, allethrin, d-allethrin etc. are typically us...
Humayun Kabir, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Mamunur Rahman, Shimpi Akter et al.
‘Black fungus’ or ‘Mucormycosis’ is an emerging public health concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rise of black fungus cases here in Bangladesh among the COVID-19 infected persons has been raised reasonable alarming conditions among health care workers along with the general people. Therefore,...
Sangita Mitra, Mahua Roy Chowdhury
Recent survey reports and observations from rivers in southern West Bengal (India) indicate the extirpation of Ganges River Dolphin (GRD) from the Indian Sundarbans. The present study undertaken during 2011–16 reviews the possible factors accountable for the disappearance of this obligatory freshw...
Samar Kishor Chakma, Taswib Tajwar Islam, Md. Shahjalal, Dipak Kumar Mitra
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Background:</ns4:bold> Depression is a major contributor to overall global disease burden, often beginning in the teenage years and continuing into later life. Previous studies have reported high global rates of depression during these formative years, including in Bangladesh. At t...
Naoual Boujedaini, Laurence Terzan, Anisur Rahman Khuda‐Bukhsh
Background: Groundwater arsenic affects millions of people in about 20 countries. In West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh alone over 100 million people are exposed. The arsenic concentration in contaminated groundwater in Bangladesh was above the maximum permissible level of 0.05 mg/l as recommended b...
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Humayun Kabir, Mamunur Rahman, Anjan Kumar Roy et al.
Abstract Background The emergence of mucormycosis cases amid the COVID-19 pandemic; fear associated with mucormycosis may turn out to be a terrifying public health issue. This study aimed to assess the association between fear and insomnia status and other predictors of mucormycosis among Bangladesh...
Asnake M.Larson, Mitra Sn
In 1990 2 researchers proposed that child health programs should not use the simple oral rehydration solution (ORS) use rate as a program indicator. They pointed out biases in the questionnaires used to measure the ORS use rate in 4 national surveys in Bangladesh and Demographic and Health Surveys f...
AKMM Islam, MA Azhar, MF Islam, MZ Haque et al.
Background: Rheumatic mitral valvular disease (MVD) is a common cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh. Many patients are diagnosed late, get maltreated, and develop complications, which can be minimized if early diagnosis could be made. Objectives: The study was carried out t...
Miguel Ulla, AAS Majumder, Zillur Rahman
With the advent of new technology and hardware. Percutaneous transluminal Mitral Commissurotomy (PTMC) is a safe procedure now-a-days. But it is still a costly procedure for the patients of develops countries like Bangladesh. So, the balloon and hardware is still practiced in some countries. One of ...
Shahnaz Sharmin, Fahmida Akter, Md Mokbul Hossain, Abu Ahmed Shamim et al.
BACKGROUND: Unhealthy food consumption is a major public health concern because of its adverse health consequences. We assessed unhealthy food (savory and fried snacks, SFS; sweet snacks, SS; and sugar-sweetened beverages, SSBs) consumption patterns and identified factors associated with this consum...
Rabindra Nath Acharyya, Kangkana Mitra, Md. Abid Muktadir Risha, Md. Fahim Hasan et al.
Bridelia stipularis locally known as ‘Harinhara’ native in hill tract area. The plant is traditionally used in cough, asthma and catarrh by the Chakma ethnic people of Bangladesh. In this study, we investigated the toxicological, anti-allergic, neuropharmacological potential of leaves extract and pr...
Malay Kanti Mridha, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Md Mokbul Hossain, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Bangladesh has a paucity of information about the dietary practices of adult men. In the recently completed round of the national nutrition surveillance (NNS 2018–2019), we explored the dietary practices of adult men and factors associated with insufficient dietary diversity (IDD) and insufficient i...
Bithi Mitra, Md. Jahedul Islam
In free space optical (FSO) communication, have to deal with several challenges as having its dependency on the condition and types of free space medium such as air, outer space or vacuum and thus have an impact of weather conditions on the performance. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis o...
Shahnaz Sharmin (22765874), Fahmida Akter (764986), Md. Mokbul Hossain (10879972), Abu Ahmed Shamim (10137935) et al.
<div> Background Unhealthy food consumption is a major public health concern because of its adverse health consequences. We assessed unhealthy food (savory and fried snacks, SFS; sweet snacks, SS; and sugar-sweetened beverages, SSBs) consumption patterns and identified factors associated with this c...
Shahnaz Sharmin (22765874), Fahmida Akter (764986), Md. Mokbul Hossain (10879972), Abu Ahmed Shamim (10137935) et al.
<div> Background Unhealthy food consumption is a major public health concern because of its adverse health consequences. We assessed unhealthy food (savory and fried snacks, SFS; sweet snacks, SS; and sugar-sweetened beverages, SSBs) consumption patterns and identified factors associated with this c...