Linda Valeri, Maitreyi Mazumdar, Jennifer F. Bobb, Birgit Claus Henn et al.
BACKGROUND: Exposure to chemical mixtures is recognized as the real-life scenario in all populations, needing new statistical methods that can assess their complex effects. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess the joint effect of in utero exposure to arsenic, manganese, and lead on children's neurodevelop...
Lisa M Force, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Miranda L May, Kayleigh Bhangdia et al.
Background Cancer is a leading cause of death globally. Accurate cancer burden information is crucial for policy planning, but many countries lack up-to-date cancer surveillance data. To inform global cancer-control efforts, we used the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GB...
Ema Rodrigues, David C. Bellinger, Linda Valeri, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: The people of Bangladesh are currently exposed to high concentrations of arsenic and manganese in drinking water, as well as elevated lead in many regions. The objective of this study was to investigate associations between environmental exposure to these contaminants and neurodevelopmen...
Lindsay M. Jaacks, Nancy Diao, Antonia M. Calafat, María Ospina et al.
BACKGROUND: Pesticide exposure during pregnancy is thought to adversely affect fetal growth, which in turn may impact child growth, but results have been inconsistent across studies and few have explored these effects in developing countries. OBJECTIVES: To quantify urinary concentrations of pestici...
Kelsey Gleason, James P. Shine, Nadia Shobnam, Lisa B. Rokoff et al.
BACKGROUND: During the conduct of a cohort study intended to study the associations between mixed metal exposures and child health outcomes, we found that 78% of 309 children aged 20-40 months evaluated in the Munshiganj District of Bangladesh had blood lead concentrations ≥5 µg/dL and 27% had conce...
Mir Shariful Islam, Ibrahim Maamoun, Omar Falyouna, Osama Eljamal et al.
Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Riaz Uddin, Subasish Das, Syed Imran Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has made substantial progress in improving socioeconomic and health indicators over the past 50 years, but data on national disease burden are scarce. We used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 to estimate the burden of disease...
Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Eftekhar Hossain
Recently, determining the customer impression is considered one of the prominent factors on the success of the restaurant businesses. Due to the rapid growth of digital contents related to restaurant or foods in the web, people are more inclined on reviews before going to any restaurant so the signi...
Xiaoxi Dong, Natalia Shulzhenko, Julien Lemaître, Renee L. Greer et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic has antimicrobial properties at high doses yet few studies have examined its effect on gut microbiota. This warrants investigation since arsenic exposure increases the risk of many diseases in which gut microbiota have been shown to play a role. We examined the association betwee...
Maitreyi Mazumdar, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan, Rezina Hamid, Linda Valeri et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic induces neural tube defects in several animal models, but its potential to cause neural tube defects in humans is unknown. Our objective was to investigate the associations between maternal arsenic exposure, periconceptional folic acid supplementation, and risk of posterior neura...
Kelsey Gleason, Linda Valeri, Anuraj H. Shankar, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: Lead toxicity is of particular public health concern given its near ubiquitous distribution in nature and established neurotoxicant properties. Similar in its ubiquity and ability to inhibit neurodevelopment, early childhood stunting affects an estimated 34 % of children under 5 in low- ...
Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
Recently, sentiment polarity detection has increased attention to NLP researchers due to the massive availability of customer’s opinions or reviews in the online platform. Due to the continued expansion of e-commerce sites, the rate of purchase of various products, including books, is growing enormo...
Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, A. S. M. Kayes, Raza Nowrozy et al.
Due to the substantial growth of internet users and its spontaneous access via electronic devices, the amount of electronic contents has been growing enormously in recent years through instant messaging, social networking posts, blogs, online portals and other digital platforms. Unfortunately, the m...
Shariful Islam, Farjana Binta Omar, Salek Ahmed Sajib, N. Roy et al.