Tahera Akter, Fatema Tuz Jhohura, Fahmida Akter, Tridib Roy Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Public health is at risk due to chemical contaminants in drinking water which may have immediate health consequences. Drinking water sources are susceptible to pollutants depending on geological conditions and agricultural, industrial, and other man-made activities. Ensuring the safety o...
Marge Koblinsky, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Allisyn C. Moran, Carine Ronsmans
Not available DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jhpn.v30i2.11294 J HEALTH POPUL NUTR 2012 Jun;30(2):124-130
Saikat Chowdhury, Nanthi Bolan, Mark Farrell, Binoy Sarkar et al.
Mohammad Al Mamun, Shah Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Tanvir Chowdhury Turin
A cross sectional study was conducted to assess the microbiological quality of local food items vended by the school-based street food vendors in Dhaka City. A total of 80 schools from 19 school-zones of Dhaka City and its outskirts were chosen for the study. A total of 110 food samples, one each fr...
Sheela Sinharoy, Thomas Clasen, Reynaldo Martorell
Child linear growth impairment, particularly stunting, remains a global health challenge. Stunting is defined as a height-for-age Z-score more than two SDs below the WHO child growth standards reference median for age and sex. The number of children younger than 5 years who are stunted was 59 millio...
Mahesh K. Gathala, Alison M. Laing, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina et al.
In the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia current agronomic practices are energy-intensive, and this contributes to higher cropping system production costs and CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions. Increasingly uncertain and scarce resources, together with an increasingly variable and changing...
Dewan S Alam, Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
OBJECTIVE: To directly estimate how much smoking contributes to cause-specific mortality in Bangladesh. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted with surveillance data from Matlab, a rural subdistrict. Cases (n = 2213) and controls (n = 261) were men aged 25 to 69 years who had died between 2003 ...
Rima Shretta, Jenny Liu, Chris Cotter, Justin M Cohen et al.
No AccessNov 2017Malaria Elimination and EradicationAuthors/Editors: Rima Shretta, Jenny Liu, Chris Cotter, Justin Cohen, Charlotte Dolenz, Kudzai Makomva, Gretchen Newby, Didier Ménard, Allison Phillips, Allison Tatarsky, Roly Gosling, Richard FeachemRima ShrettaSearch for more papers by this autho...
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, ...
Cathrine Axfors, Perrine Janiaud, Andreas M. Schmitt, Janneke van ’t Hooft et al.
Abstract Background Convalescent plasma has been widely used to treat COVID-19 and is under investigation in numerous randomized clinical trials, but results are publicly available only for a small number of trials. The objective of this study was to assess the benefits of convalescent plasma treatm...
Sumon Ghosh, Md Sohel Rana, Md Kamrul Islam, Sukanta Chowdhury et al.
Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006-2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies incidence in Bangladesh and a subset of rabies death data (422...
Mohammad Jhahidul Alam, Simanta Roy, Mohammad Azmain Iktidar, Fahmida Khatun Padma et al.
BACKGROUND: In 3%-19% of patients, reintubation is needed 48-72 hours following extubation, which increases intensive care unit (ICU) morbidity, mortality, and expenses. Extubation failure is frequently caused by diaphragm dysfunction. Ultrasonography can be used to determine the mobility and thickn...
Md. Jakariya, Chowdhury A.M.R., Md. Zakir Hossain
Sustainable community-based safe water options have been successfully operating in two upazilas involving 531 villages and encompassing a population of 497,488. Testing of tubewells for arsenic was carried out on a censusbasis by trained village health workers (VHWs) using the Merck field-testing ki...
Mahfuzar Rahman, Fatema Tuz Jhohura, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Tridib Roy Chowdhury et al.
OBJECTIVES: A community based approach before, during and after child birth has been proven effective address the burden of maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality in the low and middle income countries. We aimed to examine the overall change in maternal and newborn health outcomes due ...
Xavier Carbonell‐Estrany, Eric A. F. Simões, Louis Bont, Ángela Gentile et al.
Introduction: The high burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in young children disproportionately occurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The PROUD (Preventing RespiratOry syncytial virUs in unDerdeveloped countries) Taskforce of 24 RSV worldwide experts assessed key need...