Bedowra Zabeen, Samin Tayyeb, Biplob Benarjee, Abdul Baki et al.
BACKGROUND: Fasting (Sawm) during Ramadan, one of the five pillars of Islam is obligatory for all healthy adult and adolescent Muslims from the age of 12 years. Some children with diabetes, despite their exemption insist on fasting in Ramadan. We evaluated the safety of fasting among children with t...
Fen Wu, Liying Yang, Muhammad Tariqul Islam, Farzana Jasmine et al.
BACKGROUND: Emerging data suggest that inorganic arsenic exposure and gut microbiome are associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease. The gut microbiome may modify disease risk associated with arsenic exposure. Our aim was to examine the inter-relationships between arsenic exposure, the gut m...
Bedowra Zabeen, Ana Margarida Balsa, Nasreen Islam, Mukta Parveen et al.
Introduction: Dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia are metabolic abnormalities commonly found in young patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and both increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Methods: This cross-sectional study was aimed to evaluate the pattern of dyslipidemia and its relations...
Bedowra Zabeen, Jebun Nahar, Nimra Nabi, Abdul Baki et al.
Neonatal jaundice is a common cause of newborn hospital admission. The risk factors, the characteristics and outcomes related to neonatal jaundice in Bangladesh has not been studied so far. This study addressed the outcomes, characteristics and risks of the jaundiced newborn admitted into hospital. ...
Shah M. Faruque, Nityananda Chowdhury, Rasel Khan, MM Hasan et al.
Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is the causative agent of the most severe form of bacillary dysentery, which occurs as epidemics in many developing countries. We isolated a bacteriophage from surface water samples from Bangladesh that specifically lyses strains of S. dysenteriae type 1. This phage, desi...
Jebun Nahar, Bedowra Zabeen, Shahida Akhter, Kishwar Azad et al.
To identify the main causes of neonatal morbidity and mortality a retrospective study was carried out at the Special Care Baby Unit (SCABU) of the Department of Paediatrics, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) for a period of 1...
Bedowra Zabeen, Samin Tayyeb, Farzana Naz, Farhana Ahmed et al.
INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased over the last two decades. Obesity is a major risk factor for chronic diseases and plays a central role in insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome. METHODS: The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of obesity and abdominal obe...
Bedowra Zabeen, Bulbul Ahmed, Jebun Nahar
Our aim was to report our telemedicine experience with type 1 diabetes patients using insulin pumps who fasted for Ramadan 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The routine diabetes outpatient care in our Changing Diabetes in Children (CDiC) Pediatric Diabetes Center at the Bangladesh Institute of Rese...
Sharmin Mahbuba, Fauzia Mohsin, Farhana Rahat, Jebun Nahar et al.
Aims The study was done to assess the magnitude of problems of metabolic syndrome among obese adolescents. Materials and method It was a cross-sectional study done from January 2013 to June 2014 in paediatric endocrine outpatient department in BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Total 172 ad...
Bedowra Zabeen, Jebun Nahar, Bulbul Ahmed, Samin Tayyeb et al.
OBJECTIVES: High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) was found in several epidemiological studies. The current study aimed to assess the Vitamin D status in children and adolescents with T1D and to examine the influence of the disease chara...
Bedowra Zabeen, Jebun Nahar, Fauzia Mohsin, Kishwar Azad et al.
A retrospective study was done in the in-patient department of paediatrics, BIRDEM from January 2002 to November 2006 to determine the clinico-laboratory features, precipitating factors and outcome of diabetic ketoacidosis. Over the five year period, 344 diabetic patients were hospitalized. Among th...
Bedowra Zabeen, Jebun Nahar, Samin Tayyeb, Fauzia Mohsin et al.
INTRODUCTION: Recent data show that the prevalence of diabetes among children and adolescents is increasing in some ethnic groups. The worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity has been accompanied by an increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in youth. METHODS: The aim of this study was to...
F Mohsin, Abdul Baki, Jebun Nahar, Shaheen Akhtar et al.
Objectives: The Prevalence and magnitude of childhood obesity are increasing dramatically. The study was undertaken to see the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among children and adolescents with obesity, attending the Paediatric Endocrine OPD, BIRDEM. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted ...
Bedowra Zabeen, Jebun Nahar, Nasreen Islam, Kishwar Azad et al.
INTRODUCTION: Diabetic nephropathy is leading cause of morbidity and mortality of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). Microalbuminuria is the first clinical sign of nephropathy. METHODS: This was a cross-section study with longitudinal evaluation of urinary albumin xcretion in 199 children with type 1 di...
Jebun Nahar, Bedowra Zabeen, Shahida Akhter, Kishwar Azad et al.
To identify the main causes of neonatal morbidity and mortality a retrospective study was carried out at the Special Care Baby Unit (SCABU) of the Department of Paediatrics, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) for a period of 1...
Bedowra Zabeen, Jebun Nahar, Bulbul Ahmed, Nasreen Islam et al.
AIMS Our aim was to investigate the ability, frequency of acute complications and impact on glycemic control in uncontrolled T1DM who fasted during Ramadan. METHODS 74 Patients with T1D who insisted on fasting were enrolled 1 month prior to Ramadan and given intensive education by Diabetes team on i...
Bedowra Zabeen, Zaina A. Khaled, Jebun Nahar, Abdul Baki et al.
Severe hypertriglyceridemia can cause the deposit of lipids in the dermis (eruptive xanthomas) and in the retina (lipemia retinalis). Lipemia retinalis and eruptive xanthoma are occasionally seen in patients with diabetes mellitus and are thought to be due to abnormalities in the serum lipid fractio...
Syeda Shabnam Hasan, Rashida Rahman, Noel Mannan, Haymontee Khan et al.
Parvin Banu, Naheed Rukhsana, Jebunnessa Yasmin, Lutfun Nahar et al.
Background: Cervical cancer remains the most common cancer among women in this part of the world. Bangladesh has the highest level of incidence and mortality rates due to cervical cancer among women. Cervical cancer is a preventable disease by screening and treatment of pre-invasive condition. Unfor...
Md Abdul Baki, Afroza Haque, Fauzia Mohsin, Jebun Nahar et al.
Background and objective: Neonates with birth weight <1500 gm constitute approximately 4-7% of all live births. Mortality in this group is very high, contributing to as much as 30% of early neonatal death. This study was done to evaluate the morbidities associated with preterm neonates with birth...