Naznin Alam, Nadia Saffoon, Riaz Uddin
BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional survey examined the pattern of self-medication and factors associated with this practice among medical and pharmacy students in context to Bangladesh. METHODS: The study used a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 500; 250 medical and 250 pharmacy, students pa...
Protima Khan, Md. Fazlul Kader, S. M. Riazul Islam, Aisha B Rahman et al.
Brain is the controlling center of our body. With the advent of time, newer and newer brain diseases are being discovered. Thus, because of the variability of brain diseases, existing diagnosis or detection systems are becoming challenging and are still an open problem for research. Detection of bra...
Riaz Uddin, Eun‐Young Lee, Shanchita R. Khan, Mark S. Tremblay et al.
The precursors of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are often manifested during childhood and adolescence with little knowledge about co-occurrence of their related lifestyle risk factors. To address this deficit, we estimated the prevalence and clustering of six major NCD-risk factors in adolescents...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Background Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the f...
Matthew Reynolds, A.J.D. Pask, William Hoppitt, Kai Sonder et al.
Abstract To accelerate genetic gains in breeding, physiological trait (PT) characterization of candidate parents can help make more strategic crosses, increasing the probability of accumulating favorable alleles compared to crossing relatively uncharacterized lines. In this study, crosses were desig...
Md Ashraful Alam, Riaz Uddin, Nusrat Subhan, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
Diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome are becoming epidemic both in developed and developing countries in recent years. Complementary and alternative medicines have been used since ancient era for the treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Bitter melon is widely used as vegetables in...
Riazul Haque Tuhin, Mst. Marium Begum, Md. Sohanur Rahman, Rubaba Karim et al.
BACKGROUND: Euphorbia hirta linn., is a species of Euphorbiaceae family. They are known as asthma plant, barokhervi. The plant E. hirta is famous for its medicinal importance among the tribal population. It is a common practice to use the whole to heal wounds. Several pharmacological properties incl...
Geir Bjørklund, Jan Aaseth, Salvatore Chirumbolo, Mauricio A. Urbina et al.
Worldwide chronic arsenic (As) poisoning by arsenic-contaminated groundwater is one of the most threatening public health problems. Chronic inorganic As (inAs) exposure has been associated with various forms of cancers and numerous other pathological effects in humans, collectively known as arsenico...
Riaz Uddin, Jo Salmon, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Asaduzzaman Khan
In this study we examined the associations of physical education class participation with physical activity among adolescents. We analysed the Global School-based Student Health Survey data from 65 countries (N = 206,417; 11-17 years; 49% girls) collected between 2007 and 2016. We defined sufficient...
Iqbal Ansary Khan, Amit Saha, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
A feasibility study of an oral cholera vaccine was carried out to test strategies to reach high-risk populations in urban Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The study was cluster randomized, with three arms: vaccine, vaccine plus safe water and hand washing practice, and no intervention. High risk people of...
Riaz Uddin, Naz Hasan Huda
Exposure to arsenic through groundwater has been a major public health problem in the USA, Taiwan, Mexico, Mongolia, Argentina, India, Chile, and Bangladesh.1 More than 100 million people worldwide have been estimated to be chronically exposed to arsenic from drinking water containing high arsenic l...
Riaz Uddin, Moni Rani Saha, Nusrat Subhan, Hemayet Hossain et al.
PURPOSE: Gardenia jasminoides is a traditional medicinal plant rich in anti-inflammatory flavonoids and phenolic compounds and used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and pain. In this present study, antioxidant potential of Gardenia jasminoides leaves extract was evaluated by using various ...
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...
Ronia Mostofa, Shanta Ahmed, Mst. Marium Begum, Md. Sohanur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: The medicinal plants signify a massive basin of potential phytoconstituents that could be valuable as a substitute to allopathic drugs or considered as an analogue in drug development. Phyllanthus niruri L. (Euphorbiaceae) is generally used in traditional medicine to treat ulcer and infl...
Md. Ashfikur Rahman, Md. Sazedur Rahman, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Ewa A. Szymlek‐Gay et al.
BACKGROUND: Anaemia is a significant public health problem in most South-Asian countries, causing increased maternal and child mortality and morbidity. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of and factors associated with anaemia in women of reproductive age in Bangladesh, Maldives, and Nepal. ...