Victoria Miller, Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan et al.
BACKGROUND The association between intake of fruits, vegetables, and legumes with cardiovascular disease and deaths has been investigated extensively in Europe, the USA, Japan, and China, but little or no data are available from the Middle East, South America, Africa, or south Asia. METHODS We did a...
Gerard Clarke
Abstract Recent donor discourse points to the potential of faith-based organisations (fbos) as ‘agents of transformation’, mobilising the moral energy of faith communities in support of the Millennium Developments Goals (mdgs). This new donor-driven agenda, however, invites scrutiny of complementary...
Matteo Zignol, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Anna Dean, Philippe Glaziou et al.
BACKGROUND: In many countries, regular monitoring of the emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs is hampered by the limitations of phenotypic testing for drug susceptibility. We therefore evaluated the use of genetic sequencing for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis. METHODS:...
Firdausi Qadri, Farhana Khanam, Xinxue Liu, Katherine Theiss-Nyland et al.
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries. Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine (Vi-TT) is recommended by WHO for implementation in high-burden countries, but there is little evidence about its ability to protect against clini...
Hossain Ahmed, Aar Rafi Mahmud, Mohd. Faijanur - Rob Siddiquee, Asif Shahriar et al.
Immunotherapies boosting the immune system's ability to target cancer cells are promising for the treatment of various tumor types, yet clinical responses differ among patients and cancers. Recently, there has been increasing interest in novel cancer immunotherapy practices aimed at triggering T cel...
M. Rafiqul Islam, Ismail Khan, Sheikh Md Nazmul Hassan, Mark McEvoy et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic exposure to high level of inorganic arsenic in drinking water has been associated with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Most research has been ecological in nature and has focused on high levels of arsenic exposure with few studies directly measuring arsenic levels in drinking water as an ...
Md. Jashim Uddin, Waqar A. Khan, Ahmed I. Ismail
Steady two dimensional MHD laminar free convective boundary layer flows of an electrically conducting Newtonian nanofluid over a solid stationary vertical plate in a quiescent fluid taking into account the Newtonian heating boundary condition is investigated numerically. A magnetic field can be used...
Haiyun Liu, Mollah Aminul Islam, Muhammad Asif Khan, Md Ismail Hossain et al.
This study investigates the nexus between financial deepening (FD) and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the context of a heterogeneous panel of One Belt One Road partner countries, using a relatively new FD index proposed by the International Monetary Fund. The study also adds value to the literat...
Asibul Islam Anik, Md. Mosfequr Rahman, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Md. Ismail Tareque et al.
BACKGROUND: The coexistence of overweight mother and stunted child at the same household is a type of Double Burden of Malnutrition at Household Level (DBMHL). This particular public health concern is now emerging at an alarming rate among most of the South Asian and its neighboring lower-and-middle...
Md. Abu Bakar Siddique, Rahat Khan, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Md Kowsar Alam et al.
Mukta Rani Sarkar, M. Harun-or Rashid, Aminur Rahman, Md. Abdul Kafi et al.
Waqar A. Khan, Md. Jashim Uddin, A. I. Md. Ismail
Mohammad S. Islam, Ismail Khan, John Attia, Sheikh Md Nazmul Hassan et al.
Chronic arsenic exposure and its association with hypertension in adults are inconclusive and this cross-sectional study investigated the association. The study was conducted between January and July 2009 among 1,004 participants from 1,682 eligible women and men aged ≥30 years living in rural Bangl...
Harapan Harapan, Samsul Anwar, Amanda Yufika, Khan Sharun et al.
Vaccine hesitancy is considered one of the greatest threats to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination programs. Lack of trust in vaccine benefits, along with concerns about side effects of the newly developed COVID-19 vaccine, might significantly contribute to COVID-19 vaccine h...
Trina Ekawati Tallei, Fatimawali Fatimawali, Afriza Yelnetty, Rinaldi Idroes et al.
The rapid spread of a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 has compelled the entire world to seek ways to weaken this virus, prevent its spread and also eliminate it. However, no drug has been approved to treat COVID-19. Furthermore, the receptor-binding domain (RBD) on this viral spike protein, as...