Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Xiaohe Zhang, Sumathi Swaminathan et al.
Background The relationship between macronutrients and cardiovascular disease and mortality is controversial. Most available data are from European and North American populations where nutrition excess is more likely, so their applicability to other populations is unclear. Methods The Prospective Ur...
Marjan Walli-Attaei, Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, Scott A. Lear et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is considered the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but its control is poor worldwide. We aimed to assess the availability and affordability of blood pressure-lowering medicines, and the association with use of these medicines and blood pressure control...
Gareth J. Norton, Alex Douglas, Brett Lahner, Elena Yakubova et al.
The mineral concentrations in cereals are important for human health, especially for individuals who consume a cereal subsistence diet. A number of elements, such as zinc, are required within the diet, while some elements are toxic to humans, for example arsenic. In this study we carry out genome-wi...
Gareth J. Norton, Guilan Duan, Tapash Dasgupta, Md. Rafiqul Islam et al.
The concentration of arsenic (As) in rice grains has been identified as a risk to human health. The high proportion of inorganic species of As (As(i)) is of particular concern as it is a nonthreshold, class 1 human carcinogen. To be able to breed rice with low grain As, an understanding of genetic v...
Gareth J. Norton, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Claire Deacon, Fang‐Jie Zhao et al.
For the world's population, rice consumption is a major source of inorganic arsenic (As), a nonthreshold class 1 carcinogen. Reducing the amount of total and inorganic As within the rice grain would reduce the exposure risk. In this study, grain As was measured in 76 cultivars consisting of Banglade...
Gareth J. Norton, Shannon R. M. Pinson, Jill Alexander, Susan McKay et al.
• Inorganic arsenic (As(i) ) in rice (Oryza sativa) grains is a possible threat to human health, with risk being strongly linked to total dietary rice consumption and consumed rice As(i) content. This study aimed to identify the range and stability of genetic variation in grain arsenic (As) in rice....
Shofiqul Islam, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Ravi Naidu
Rice is an essential staple food and feeds over half of the world's population. Consumption of rice has increased from limited intake in Western countries some 50years ago to major dietary intake now. Rice consumption represents a major route for inorganic arsenic (As) exposure in many countries, es...
Paul N. Williams, Shofiqul Islam, Md. Rafiqul Islam, M. Jahiruddin et al.
A reconnaissance of 23 paddy fields, from three Bangladesh districts, encompassing a total of 230 soil and rice plant samples was conducted to identify the extent to which trace element characteristics in soils and irrigation waters are reflected by the harvested rice crop. Field sites were located ...
Md Shofiqul Islam, Muhammad Nomani Kabir, Ngahzaifa Ab Ghani, Kamal Z. Zamli et al.
Abstract Social media is used to categorise products or services, but analysing vast comments is time-consuming. Researchers use sentiment analysis via natural language processing, evaluating methods and results conventionally through literature reviews and assessments. However, our approach diverge...
Md Shofiqul Islam, Khondokar Fida Hasan, Sunjida Sultana, Shahadat Uddin et al.
Deep learning-based models have achieved significant success in detecting cardiac arrhythmia by analyzing ECG signals to categorize patient heartbeats. To improve the performance of such models, we have developed a novel hybrid hierarchical attention-based bidirectional recurrent neural network with...
Md Shofiqul Islam, Sunjida Sultana, Fahmid Al Farid, Md Nahidul Islam et al.
Automatic leaf disease detection techniques are effective for reducing the time-consuming effort of monitoring large crop farms and early identification of disease symptoms of plant leaves. Although crop tomatoes are seen to be susceptible to a variety of diseases that can reduce the production of t...
Md. Rafiqul Islam, M. Jahiruddin, Shofiqul Islam
Shofiqul Islam, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Ravi Naidu
An extensive number (965) of rice samples collected by household survey from 73 upazilas (i.e. sub-districts) in Bangladesh was analyzed to determine regional variation, distribution and associated health risks from arsenic (As). No previous study had conducted a study examining such a large number ...
Md. Rafiqul Islam, Md. Shofiqul Islam, Md. Abdullah Zubair, M. Usama Hasan et al.
Mohammad Sohrab Hossain, Md. Shofiqul Islam, Joanne V. Glinsky, Rachael Lowe et al.
QUESTION: Does a massive open online course (MOOC) based around an online learning module about spinal cord injuries improve knowledge or confidence among physiotherapy students more than if physiotherapy students are left to work through the online learning module at their own pace. Which method of...