Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Marian F. Zeitlin, Alexa Beiser, Charles M. Super et al.
A community-based intervention was developed through direct participation of the target population in assessment and iterative trials to improve hygiene practices and to reduce childhood diarrhoea in lowland rural Bangladesh. A total of 185 (98%) households with children ages 0-18 months in five con...
Gopal Saha, Jong‐In Park, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Md. Abdul Kayum et al.
MYB proteins comprise a large family of plant transcription factors that play regulatory roles in different biological processes such as plant development, metabolism, and defense responses. To gain insight into this gene superfamily and to elucidate its roles in stress resistance, we performed a co...
Marian F. Zeitlin, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Alexa Beiser, Jennifer Zeitlin et al.
One hundred and eighty-five rural Bangladeshi children (80 boys and 105 girls) aged 4-27 months were observed to investigate developmental, behavioural, and environmental risk factors for diarrhoea during a 6-month period. Incidence of diarrhoea was found to be the highest among children aged 10-12 ...
Mohammad Nurul Azam, Md Shahjahan, Mahbuba Yeasmin, Nasar Uddin Ahmed
BACKGROUND: Cost, social acceptability and non-stringent regulations pertaining to smokeless tobacco (SLT) product sales have made people choose and continue using SLT. If disaggregated data on smokeless forms and smoked practices of tobacco are reviewed, the incidence of SLT remains static. There i...
Khadiza Khatun, Arif Hasan Khan Robin, Jong‐In Park, Nasar Uddin Ahmed et al.
LIM domain proteins, some of which have been shown to be actin binding proteins, are involved in various developmental activities and cellular processes in plants. To date, the molecular defense-related functions of LIM family genes have not been investigated in any solanaceous vegetable crop specie...
Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Jenifar Jahan, Sumyea Jahan et al.
INTRODUCTION: The rate of cesarean delivery (C-section) has been increasing worldwide, including Bangladesh, and it has a negative impact on the mother and child's health. Our aim was to examine the association between C-section and childhood diseases and to identify the key factors associated with ...
Marian F. Zeitlin, Nasar Uddin Ahmed
In this rural Bangladeshi sample of 165 mothers and their breastfed infants aged 5-23 months, mean maternal body mass index (BMI) was 18, and 12-month infant height-for-age z-scores (HAZ), -2.35. Structured observations were conducted over 6 months on 1649 breastfeeds during 3324 weekly daytime obse...
Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Marian F. Zeitlin, Alexa Beiser, Charles M. Super et al.
Community-based three-stage iterative trials were performed to develop interventions for improving hygiene practices to reduce childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh. Ethnographic techniques were used to identify practices associated with diarrhea, to understand cultural beliefs and reasoning relate...
Md Ibrahim Khalil, Md Mahmudul Hassan, Swadesh Chandra Samanta, Abul Kashem Chowdhury et al.
The world's low-lying rice (Oryza sativa) cultivation areas are under threat of submergence or flash flooding due to global warming. Rice plants manifest a variety of physiological and morphological changes to cope with submergence and hypoxia, including lowering carbohydrate consumption, inhibiting...
Yeasmin Nilufer, Shamim Ara Nipa, M.Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bushra Rahman et al.
Medical wastes entered our ecosystem owing to improper disposal practice which exploited as pollutants and posed huge threat to the public health, economy and eco-system. This review had scrutinized and illustrated the erroneous drug disposal practice, their possible threats, and proposed several pr...
Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Marian F. Zeitlin, Alexa Beiser, Charles M. Super et al.
A community-based hygiene intervention was developed and implemented in five villages of lowland Bangladesh with the active participation of members of the target group, with the objective of reducing childhood diarrhoea by altering ground sanitation and personal and food hygiene practices such as t...
Uzzal Somaddar, Hridoy Chandra Dey, Sarah Khanam Mim, Uttam Kumer Sarker et al.
Silicon (Si) application has great potential to improve salt tolerance in a variety of crop plants. However, it is unclear how Si influences the responses of contrasting rice cultivars when exposed to excessive salt. Here, we investigated the functions of Si in alleviating the negative effects of sa...
Tanvir Ahammed, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Md Jamal Uddin
BACKGROUND: Globally, tobacco kills more than nine million people per year. Annually in Bangladesh, smoking accounts for 1.2 million illnesses and over one hundred fifty thousand deaths. Worldwide, about one out of five school students smoke tobacco, and this problem is also growing significantly in...
Shamim Mia, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Zahidul Islam, Md Mainul Islam Rashad et al.
Cristina Pellegrino Baena, Taufique Joarder, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Rajiv Chowdhury
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a devastating and disproportionate impact on the elderly population. As the virus has swept through the world, already vulnerable elderly populations worldwide have faced a far greater burden of deaths and severe disease, crippling isolation, ...
Shariful Hakim, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Md Jamal Uddin
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh ranks among the world's top ten countries in the number of diabetic patients. The prevention of this disease requires treating patients with essential medicines, and the first crucial step in the uptake of these medicines is availability. We aimed to assess the availability of...
Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Marian F. Zeitlin
Germ theory was taught as part of a hygiene intervention in five villages in Bangladesh in which 87 percent of mothers were illiterate. Volunteer mothers taught other community mothers interactively in small groups using demonstration and teaching aids developed by a community working group. At fina...
Shariful Hakim, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Md Ashiqul Haque, Nasar Uddin Ahmed et al.
Long-term, often lifelong care for cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients requires consistent use of medicine; hence, the availability of essential medicine for CVD (EM-CVD) is vital for treatment, quality of life, and survival. We aimed to assess the availability of EM-CVD and explore healthcare fac...
Seung-Yeon Jeong, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Hee‐Jeong Jung, Hoy‐Taek Kim et al.
Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Marian F. Zeitlin
This ethnographic study explores bhat‐dhara ("catching rice"), a cultural milestone in Bangladesh, indicating the child's readiness for family meals. Following focus group discussions on bhat‐dhara concepts, a household rice allocation rule and child heights were obtained from 30 participating famil...