Diabetes mellitus has evolved into a global epidemic and as Asian countries have undergone an economic, social and nutritional transition, type 2 diabetes mellitus and gestational diabetes mellitus have…
Read more »Comprehensive Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) Gene Screening in Pregnant Women with Diabetes in India
Posted in Diabetes, Diabetes Featured 2, Ob/Gyn, Women's Health
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Priority-Setting for Novel Drug Regimens to Treat Tuberculosis: An Epidemiologic Model
The number of available or prospective drugs for treating tuberculosis (TB) is undergoing a long-overdue expansion. Delamanid and bedaquiline, both recently approved for the treatment of multidrug-resistant TB, are the first novel agents registered for TB treatment in…
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Does Measles Vaccination Reduce the Risk of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) and Diarrhea in Children: A Multi-Country Study?
Measles is a highly contagious disease transmitted through a virus belonging to the Morbillivirus genus. The infection is acquired via the respiratory tract and is mostly seen in infants and children below five years of age. The virus usually disrupts the…
Read more »Widespread fear of dengue transmission but poor practices of dengue prevention
Dengue is an infectious viral disease transmitted by a domesticated mosquito, Aedes aegypti. There are supposedly 50 to 400 million people infected each year by dengue virus, developing various clinical spectrum of dengue infection that includes…
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Factors influencing feeding practices of extreme poor infants and young children in families of working mothers in Dhaka slums
In recent decades, rapid urbanization with fast population growth has become inescapable in Bangladesh. The demographic dynamics of Bangladesh suggest that the country is undergoing rapid urbanization, particularly due to rural-urban migration…
Read more »Association of Hip Bone Mineral Density and Body Composition in a Rural Indian Population
Hip bone mineral density is a predictor of overall risk of fractures in later life. Body mass is one of the…
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Tagged bone mass, fat mass, hip bone
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Molecular Mimicry between Chikungunya Virus and Host Components: A Possible Mechanism for the Arthritic Manifestations
Chikungunya fever is caused by a arbovirus belonging to Family Togaviridae and Genus Alphavirus. CHIKV is positive sense RNA virus with about 11.8 kb long genome. The prevalence of CHIKV has increased globally. It caused massive outbreaks when…
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