Rajiv Chowdhury, Shammi Luhar, Nusrat Khan, Sohel Reza Choudhury et al.
In low and middle-income countries (LMICs), strict social distancing measures (e.g., nationwide lockdown) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are unsustainable in the long-term due to knock-on socioeconomic and psychological effects. However, an optimal epidemiology-focused strategy for 'safe-reope...
Caryn Bern, Joseph E. Sniezek, Golam M. Mathbor, Maqsood Siddiqi et al.
Cyclones continue to pose a dangerous threat to the coastal populations of Bangladesh, despite improvements in disaster control procedures. After 138,000 persons died in the April 1991 cyclone, we carried out a rapid epidemiological assessment to determine factors associated with cyclone-related mor...
Fazlul Karim, Md. Ashraful Islam, Rajiv Chowdhury, Eva Johansson et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the gender variations in delay from symptom onset to help seeking, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) using DOTS at community level, in 10 subdistricts of Bangladesh with 2.5 million people under a non-governmental organization's (Building Resources Across Communities,...
Minxian Wang, Ramesh Menon, Sanghamitra Mishra, Aniruddh P. Patel et al.
Background: Genome-wide polygenic scores (GPS) integrate information from many common DNA variants into a single number. Because rates of coronary artery disease (CAD) are substantially higher among South Asians, a GPS to identify high-risk individuals may be particularly useful in this population. ...
Lynn P. Freedman, Ronald J. Waldman, Helen de Pinho, Meg Wirth et al.
Roy Sk, M Jahangir Hossain, Wajiha Khatun, Barnali Chakraborty et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of zinc supplementation in children with cholera. DESIGN: Double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial. SETTING: Dhaka Hospital, Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS: 179 children aged 3-14 years with watery diarrhoea and stool dark field examination positive for Vibri...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
Abstract Over the decades of the 1980s and 90s many poverty alleviation programmes have been implemented in developing countries. Evaluations of such programmes have traditionally looked at their success in increasing the income levels of participants but less at the wider goals of human well‐being....
Fyezah Jehan, Sunil Sazawal, Abdullah H Baqui, Muhammad Imran Nisar et al.
Importance: Worldwide, preterm birth (PTB) is the single largest cause of deaths in the perinatal and neonatal period and is associated with increased morbidity in young children. The cause of PTB is multifactorial, and the development of generalizable biological models may enable early detection an...
Eva-Charlotte Ekström, SM Ziauddin Hyder, Rajiv Chowdhury, Sadia Chowdhury et al.
Background According to our current understanding, iron absorption with weekly iron supplements is not higher than that with daily supplements (ie, there is no mucosal block). However, community-based trials have repeatedly shown that a weekly regimen is as effective as a daily one. Furthermore, whe...
Md. Akramul Islam, Susumu Wakai, Nobukatsu Ishikawa, Rajiv Chowdhury et al.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost-effectiveness of the tuberculosis (TB) programme run by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which uses community health workers (CHWs), with that of the government TB programme which does not use CHWs. METHODS: TB control statistics and cost data for Jul...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Carol Tishelman, Hedda Agüero‐Torres, Rajiv Chowdhury et al.
The study aims to (i) describe regional variation and gender differences in health status of older people (60 years and older) in Bangladesh, indicated by self-reported health problems and functional ability; (ii) explore influence of socio-economic factors on health status of older people. In a cro...
Iftekhar Quasem, Nancy L. Sloan, Anita Chowdhury, Salahuddin Ahmed et al.
Objective Working with a multidisciplinary team of Ecuadorians, Bangladeshis and Americans, we developed a simple protocol for community-based implementation of kangaroo mother care (CKMC) that does not require birth weight or clinical judgment to identify which newborns should receive CKMC. CKMC co...
Nikhil Tandon, Yashdeep Gupta, Deksha Kapoor, Josyula K. Lakshmi et al.
Importance: Women with recent gestational diabetes (GDM) have increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Objective: To investigate whether a resource-appropriate and context-appropriate lifestyle intervention could prevent glycemic deterioration among women with recent GDM in South Asia. Design, ...
Amir Shroufi, Rajiv Chowdhury, Raghupathy Anchala, Sarah Stevens et al.
BACKGROUND: While there is good evidence to show that behavioural and lifestyle interventions can reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in affluent settings, less evidence exists in lower income settings.This study systematically assesses the evidence on cost-effectiveness for preventive cardio...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya, Simeen Mahmud, A K M Abdus Salam et al.
This paper examines inequalities in the use of, and access to, vaccination service in Bangladesh by analyzing national and small area-based datasets. The analysis showed that female children had a lower immunization coverage than male children--the difference persists for all antigens and widens aga...