HV Hogerzeil, Bimo, Dennis Ross‐Degnan, Richard Laing et al.
Increasing efforts are being made to improve drug-use practices and prescribing behaviour in developing countries. An essential tool for such work is an objective and standard method of assessment. We present here a set of drug-use indicators produced and tested in twelve developing countries. We de...
Md. Hazrat Ali, Md. Abul Kalam Azad, K. A. Khan, Md. Obaidur Rahman et al.
In this cutting-edge research era, silver nanoparticles impose a substantial impact because of their wide applicability in the field of engineering, science, and industry. Regarding the vast applications of silver nanoparticles, in this study, the crystallographic characteristics and nanostructures ...
Helen Harris–Fry, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus, Sanjit Kumer Shaha et al.
BACKGROUND: There has been limited decline in undernutrition rates in South Asia compared with the rest of Asia and one reason for this may be low levels of household food security. However, the evidence base on the determinants of household food security is limited. To develop policies intended to ...
Md Shoaib Ahmed, Tanjim Taharat Aurpa, Md. Abul Kalam Azad
Fish diseases in aquaculture constitute a significant hazard to nutriment security. Identification of infected fishes in aquaculture remains challenging to find out at the early stage due to the dearth of necessary infrastructure. The identification of infected fish timely is an obligatory step to t...
DavidA. Sack, A Eusof, MichaelH. Merson, RobertE. Black et al.
Of 57 male children, aged 5 months to 2 1/2 years with rotavirus diarrhoea, 28 were given oral therapy with sucrose electrolyte solution and 29 were given glucose electrolyte solution in a randomised double-blind trial. All were rehydrated and remained so on oral therapy alone. These patients were c...
Alexander Schneider, Amitabh Suman, Livio Rossi, M. Michael Barmada et al.
Background & aims Tropical pancreatitis, including tropical calcific pancreatitis and fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes, is endemic in parts of Asia and Africa. In a preliminary study, we found serine protease inhibitor, Kazal type 1 (SPINK1) mutations in 6 of 8 patients with fibrocalculous pancrea...
Gary L. Darmstadt, Samir K. Saha, ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Saifuddin Ahmed et al.
OBJECTIVE: Skin barrier therapy during the neonatal period, when the skin barrier is most highly compromised and the risk of death is greatest, has been shown to have a number of potential benefits, including reduced risk of nosocomial sepsis. Topical application of emollients that augment skin barr...
Hahn Chul Jung, James Hamski, Michael Durand, D. E. Alsdorf et al.
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission will provide global, space‐based estimates of water elevation, its temporal change, and its spatial slope in fluvial environments, as well as across lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, and floodplains. This paper illustrates the utili...
Shaikh M Mohsin Ali, M. A. K. Azad, Mele Jesmin, Shamim Ahsan et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the anticancer activity of vanillin semicarbazone (VSC) against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) cells in Swiss albino mice. METHODS: The compound VSC at three doses (5, 7.5 and 10 mg/kg i.p.) was administered into the intraperitoneal cavity of the EAC inoculated mice to observ...
S. Asghar, Akhtar Hussain, S Ali, A. K. Azad Khan et al.
AIMS: To determine the extent of depressive symptoms in a rural community of Bangladesh and its association with newly recognized diabetes. METHODS: Depressive symptoms were assessed in 184 newly diagnosed diabetic subjects and 768 randomly selected individuals without diabetes. The Montogomery and ...
Hendrik CC de Jonge, Kishwar Azad, Nadine Seward, Abdul Kuddus et al.
BACKGROUND: Short birth intervals are known to have negative effects on pregnancy outcomes. We analysed data from a large population surveillance system in rural Bangladesh to identify predictors of short birth interval and determine consequences of short intervals on pregnancy outcomes. METHODS: Th...
MohammedA Masud, Mahmud Hasan, A. K. Azad Khan
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and the pattern of symptoms and health care seeking behavior of IBS subjects in the rural population in Bangladesh. METHODS: This was an observational study to do a positive diagnosis of IBS. A total...
ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, M. A. K. Azad Chowdhury, Mahbul Hoque, Gary L. Darmstadt
The present article is a descriptive analysis of clinical and bacteriological profile of neonatal septicemia in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. Eighty six neonates with suspected sepsis were enrolled, out of which 30 were culture positive. Clinical presentation was non-specific. Majority (70...
M Abu Sayeed, Hajera Mahtab, Parvin Akter Khanam, Zafar Latif et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glycemia (IFG) in a rural population of Bangladesh. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A cluster sampling of 4,923 subjects >/=20 years old in a rural community were investigated. Fasting plasma glucose, blood pressure, height,...
Thomas Butler, Joseph A. Knight, S. Nath, Peter Speelman et al.
In Bangladesh, clinical records of 323 patients with typhoid fever were reviewed to study the incidence, fatality, and optimal therapy of the complication of intestinal perforation. Fifteen patients (4.6%) developed intestinal perforation. Case-fatality rates were six of nine patients treated medica...