Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Sayeeda Huq, Mohammad Abdul Malek et al.
There is a scarcity of information examining the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the general population of Bangladesh. Thus, the present study aimed to estimate the changing trends and socio-demographic characteristics of overweight and obese individuals among an urban population inDhaka,Ban...
Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Sayeeda Huq, Mohammad Abdul Malek et al.
BACKGROUND: The present study aimed to determine the clinical characteristics and etiology of overweight and obese (OO) individuals with diarrhea attending an urban Dhaka Hospital, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research (icddr,b), Bangladesh. METHODS: Total of 508 under-5 children, 96 i...
Rajesh Das, Md. Prova Zaman Emon, Sayeeda Fahmee Chowdhury, Sumaiya Huque et al.
century because of its high rate of prevalence linked with disability, morbidity, and mortality. The actual etiology behind the development of MDD is not understood yet. Various genetic, physiological, biological and environmental factors have been predicted to be involved. As there is currently no ...
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Sayeeda Huq, Wasif Ali Khan et al.
We conducted a retrospective chart analysis of diarrheal patients with enteric fever and encephalopathy (among survivors and non-survivors) to examine the role of high-dose, intravenous dexamethasone as an adjunct to appropriate antimicrobial therapy in their management. We studied all patients admi...
Fahmida Chowdhury, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid, Mosharrat Tabassum, Irin Parvin et al.
INTRODUCTION: Vitamin D is important for its immunomodulatory role and there is an independent association between vitamin D deficiency and pneumonia. We assessed the effect of vitamin D supplementation on the outcome in children hospitalized for severe pneumonia. METHODS: This was a randomised, dou...
Mohammad Jobayer Chisti, Tahmeed Ahmed, Anisuddin Ahmed, Shafiqul Alam Sarker et al.
We sought to investigate the magnitude, clinical features, treatment, and outcome of children suffering from hypernatremic diarrhea and to identify risk factors for fatal outcome among them. We reviewed 2 data sets of children <15 years admitted to the in-patient ward of the Dhaka Hospital of Intern...
Steven J. Hartman, Matthew C. Hibberd, Ishita Mostafa, Nurun Nahar Naila et al.
Globally, severe acute malnutrition (SAM), defined as a weight-for-length z -score more than three SDs below a reference mean (WLZ < −3), affects 14 million children under 5 years of age. Complete anthropometric recovery after standard, short-term interventions is rare, with children often left w...
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Sayeeda Huq, Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammed A. Malek et al.
We compared the socio-demographic and clinical outcomes as predictors in severely ill hospitalized under-five diarrheal children with and without pneumonia. We studied 496 under-five children with diarrhea admitted to the Special Care Ward (SCW) of Dhaka Hospital of International Center for Diarrhea...
Sumon Kumar Das, Farzana Afroze, Tahmeed Ahmed, Abu Syed Golam Faruque et al.
INTRODUCTION: Hypernatremia (serum sodium ≥ 150 mmol/L) is one of the most life-threatening complications of childhood diarrhea, and its management remains challenging, even in a highly advanced critical care setting. This case report describes the acute clinical course and 3-month neurological foll...
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Tahmeed Ahmed, Abu S. M. S. B. Shahid et al.
We sought to examine the factors associated with bacteraemia and their outcome in children with pneumonia and severe acute malnutrition (SAM). All SAM children of either sex, aged 0-59 months, admitted to the Dhaka Hospital of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh with...
Sayeeda Huq, Md Iqbal Hossain, M. A. Malek, A. S. G. Faruque et al.
The present study aimed to observe the clinical features of hypoglycaemia, and identify predictors of hypoglycaemia in under-five diarrhoeal children requiring hospitalization for close observation and support. Such information could be useful to the clinicians and policy makers in developing approp...
Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Sayeeda Huq, Mohammad Abdul Malek et al.
There is inadequate information on the etiology of diarrhea in severely malnourished (SM) young children. Thus, the study aimed to determine the etiology of diarrhea among severely malnourished (z score ?3.00 SD) children in rural and urban Bangladesh. From the database (2000-2011) of Diarrheal Dise...
A. S. G. Faruque, Ashraful Islam Khan, Mohammed A. Malek, Sayeeda Huq et al.
The study aimed to assess the prevalence of anemia and vitamin A deficiency in preschool children in rural Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was done on eight randomly-selected sub-districts of rural Bangladesh. Children (n=1,302) aged 2-6 years were studied. Families of 43% of the study participa...
Md Iqbal Hossain, Sayeeda Huq, Tahmeed Ahmed
BACKGROUND: The problem of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among < 5 years old (U-5) children in Bangladesh is awful with higher risk of death or morbidities. However, there is no nationwide program where these children are managed with take-home therapeutic/supplementary food as recommended by Worl...
M Munirul Islam, Sayeeda Huq, Md Iqbal Hossain, Akhter Ahmed et al.
Purpose To assess the efficacy and safety of F-100, diluted F-100 (F100D), and infant formula (IF) for dietary management in the rehabilitation phase of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) of infants aged under 6 months (u6m). Methods Double-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted to assess the ef...