Maria Argos, Faruque Parvez, Mahfuzar Rahman, Muhammad Rakibuz‐Zaman et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic arsenic exposure through drinking water is a public health problem affecting millions of people worldwide, including at least 30 million in Bangladesh. We prospectively investigated the associations of arsenic exposure and arsenical skin lesion status with lung disease mortality ...
Mahfuzar Rahman
Prosun Bhattacharya, Mohammed Hossain, Shamsun Naima Rahman, C. E. Robinson et al.
Temporal and seasonal variability of As concentrations in groundwater were evaluated in As-affected areas of Matlab, southeastern Bangladesh. Groundwater samples from 61 randomly selected tubewells were analyzed for As concentrations over a period of three years and four months (from July 2002 to No...
Nazmul Sohel, Marie Vahter, Mohammad Ali, Mahfuzar Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic exposure in pregnancy is associated with adverse pregnancy outcome and infant mortality. Knowledge of the spatial characteristics of the outcomes and their possible link to arsenic exposure are important for planning effective mitigation activities. The aim of this study was to i...
Ratnajit Saha, Nepal C. Dey, Mahfuzar Rahman, Prosun Bhattacharya et al.
The study aimed to investigate the most usable drinking water sources quality and the dependent population’s exposure to potentially contaminated water. The specific area chosen for the study was the coastal area in Satkhira district’s Tala Upazila. 649 most usable drinking water sources were select...
Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Fatema Tuz Jhohura, Fouzia Khanam, Fahmida Akter et al.
Anemia is a significant wide spread public health threat especially among the adolescent girls who are more vulnerable towards low level of hemoglobin particularly of low and middle income countries (LMICs). We investigated the prevalence of anemia among the adolescent girls (10–19 years) in Banglad...
Dayana A. Delgado, Chenan Zhang, Lin Chen, Jianjun Gao et al.
Background Leucocyte telomere length (TL) is a potential biomarker of ageing and risk for age-related disease. Leucocyte TL is heritable and shows substantial differences by race/ethnicity. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) report ~10 loci harbouring SNPs associated with leucocyte TL, bu...
M A Wahed, Dulaly Chowdhury, Barbro Nermell, Shafiqul Islam Khan et al.
The high prevalence of elevated levels of arsenic in drinking-water in many countries, including Bangladesh, has necessitated the development of reliable and rapid methods for the determination of a wide range of arsenic concentrations in water. A simple hydride generation-atomic absorption spectrom...
Mahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel, Fakir Md Yunus, Nurul Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Widespread arsenic contamination in underground water is a well-documented public health concern that threatens millions of lives worldwide. We investigated the risk of young-adult mortality due to high chronic exposure to arsenic through years of drinking arsenic contaminated water. MET...
Fouzia Khanam, Md. Belal Hossain, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Kaosar Afsana et al.
Ever rising prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) is a major challenge for the health sector in Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of CVD and sociodemographic and lifestyle factors associated with it in Bangladesh. The data were collected through a cross-sectional survey fo...
Jianjun Gao, Shantanu Roy, Tong Lin, Maria Argos et al.
Background Inorganic arsenic is a carcinogen whose mode of action may involve telomere dysfunction. Recent epidemiological studies suggest that chronic arsenic exposure is associated with longer telomeres and altered expression of telomere-related genes in peripheral blood. In this study, we evaluat...
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Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Md. Belal Hossain, Fouzia Khanam, Fahmida Akter et al.
OBJECTIVE: Childhood stunting remains a major public health concern in Bangladesh. To accelerate the reduction rate of stunting, special focus is required during the first 23 months of a child's life when the bulk of growth takes place. Therefore the present study explored individual-, maternal- and...
Abul Hasnat Milton, Ziaul Hasan, Mohammed Atiqur Rahman, Mahfuzar Rahman
A total of 136 patients were studied in three Upazillas of Laxmipur, Barisal and Madaripur districts were selected for health awareness campaign program. According to the existing data, these villages were ranked as high exposure. Demographic data of the patients investigated are showing pigmentatio...
Saira Parveen Jolly, Mahfuzar Rahman, Kaosar Afsana, Fakir Md Yunus et al.
BACKGROUND: A continuous influx of poor people to urban slums poses a challenge to Bangladesh's health system as it has failed to tackle maternal morbidity and mortality. BRAC is the largest non-governmental organisation in Bangladesh. BRAC has been working to reduce maternal, neonatal and under-fiv...