Ismail K. White, Chryl N. Laird, Troy D. Allen
Departing from accounts of minority group politics that focus on the role of group identity in advancing group members’ common interests, we investigate political decisions involving tradeoffs between group interests and simple self-interest. Using the case of black Americans, we investigate crystal...
Balaji Bhavadharini, Viswanathan Mohan, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan et al.
OBJECTIVE Previous prospective studies on the association of white rice intake with incident diabetes have shown contradictory results but were conducted in single countries and predominantly in Asia. We report on the association of white rice with risk of diabetes in the multinational Prospective U...
Sumathi Swaminathan, Mahshid Dehghan, John Michael Raj, Tinku Thomas et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between intakes of refined grains, whole grains, and white rice with cardiovascular disease, total mortality, blood lipids, and blood pressure in the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: PURE study in...
Carole Chedid, Eka Kokhreidze, Nestani Tukvadze, Sayera Banu et al.
ObjectivesTuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death in the world. Cheaper and more accessible TB treatment monitoring methods are needed. Here, we evaluated white blood cell (WBC) absolute counts, lymphocyte, and monocyte proportions during TB treatment, and characterized their asso...
Ajoy Kumar Saha, MA Sufian, Mohammad Ismail Hossain, Md. Mokter Hossain
We isolated and identified Salmonella organisms from ovaries of dead layer birds and from inner content of laid eggs of different poultry farms. The thirty eight ovarian swabs for bacteriology, visceral organs (liver, lung, spleen, egg follicles and intestine) of 38 dead birds for pathological study...
Jayati Das‐Munshi, Peter Schofield, Mark Ashworth, Fiona Gaughran et al.
INTRODUCTION: Using data from a a primary care pay-for-performance scheme targeting quality indicators, the objective of this study was to assess if people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and severe mental illnesses (SMI) experienced poorer glycemic management compared with people living...
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
AbstractThis study of gendered migration from the Indian subcontinent to Cape Town focuses on women who did travel and those who did not. It identifies the split-household as being the dominant household formation in the first half of the twentieth century, a matter of preference of Indian male migr...
Amanda Husein, Jolie Boullion, Md. Ismail Hossain, Diensn Xing et al.
Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare, chronic, progressive form of pulmonary hypertension in which increased arterial pressure causes remodeling of the arterial system and is associated with heart failure. Methamphetamine is a stimulant that has recently become a focus in PAH ...
Mohammad Ismail Hossain, Mohammad Arif Hossain, L Nahar, Md. Motaher Hossain et al.
Very few cases of Human Thelaziasis are reported worldwide. This is the first case of its kind from Bangladesh. A 58 years old man was admitted to Ophthalmology department of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Mymensingh, with itching, redness, foreign body sensation, lacrimation & filamentary dis...
Rajib Hossain, Dipta Dey, Partha Biswas, Priyanka Paul et al.
The medicinal plants Chlorophytum borivilianum (Musli) and Cimicifuga racemosa (Black cohosh) are native to India and the Indian subcontinent (where they are considered “white gold” in Indian Ayurvedic medicine) – especially Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan – and the Americas. In Ayurveda,...
Tamanna Ashraf, Pankaj Kumar Sarker, Md. Ismail Hosen, Atiqur Rahman et al.
Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes toxoplasmosis in around one-third of the world population, particularly in pregnant women and immunocompromised individuals. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most severe global health challenges in the 21st century, and especia...
Fatema- Tuz-Zohora, Rumana Mahtarin, Muhammad Ali, Mohammad Ariful Islam et al.
Phytochemical investigations of the methanolic extract of the whole plant of Micromelum minutum provided two coumarins, namely micromelin and murrangatin, and one sterol stigmast-4-en-3-one, the latter being reported for the first time from M. minutum. To evaluate bioactivities, different fractions ...
Md. Ismail Hossain, Niaz Md. Farhat Rahman, MS Kabir, Md Abu Bakr Siddique et al.
Rice production depends on both producers and consumers preference. The consumption of rice depends on consumers taste and habits. The objectives of this study were to develop and validate mathematical models for producers, consumers and producers-cum-consumers preference to rice varieties and...
Shafaqat Ali, Zaki Al‐Yafeai, Md. Ismail Hossain, Md. Shenuarin Bhuiyan et al.
Background Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is on the rise worldwide, ranking as the third leading cause of atherosclerosis-related morbidity; much less is known about its trends in hospitalizations among methamphetamine and cocaine users. Objectives We aim to evaluate the overall trend in the preval...
Bashdar Abuzed Sadee
The aim of this research was to evaluate the total content of heavy metals in selected and frequently used vegetables. Ten samples of the most common diet vegetables (chard, celery, garden cress, spinach, Egyptian leek, wild mint, spring onion, arum, mallow, sunflower) were collected from the loc...