Aim: Oral health knowledge and practices shown by preschool children determine their oral health status in the future. This in turn depends on the knowledge and practices engraved into them by their mothers. Study Design: Cross-sectional Observational Analytic study. Subjects: Mo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26113
Thiago Andrade Macedo, Roberto Nery Dantas Júnior, Ismar Aguiar Marques Filho, Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros e Silva, Liliane Gomes da Rocha, Bernardo Baptista da Cunha Lopes & Marcio Campos Sampaio·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Carcinoid tumors are rare malignancies able to spread and produce bioactive humoral products, mainly serotonin, which is responsible for the Carcinoid Syndrome (CS); its features are: flushing, diarrhea, bronchospasm and valvular heart disease. The Carcinoid Heart Disease (CHD) i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25952
Introduction: Fracture of an acrylic resin complete denture base after aging, poses problem for patients, dentists and dental laboratory technicians. This study was performed to determine the effect of thermocycling on the flexural strength of a commercially available, heat-polym...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20517
Aims: Detect the incidence of urinary tract infection caused by candida species and to determine their antifungal susceptibility, biofilm formation and its minimal biofilm inhibitory concentration. In addition, detect the importance of multiplex nested polymerase chain reaction (...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25940
Aims: Malaria poses a medical and public health challenge in Nigeria. The burden of the disease has been a major source of concern to tourists in Uyo. Knowledge on the biting behaviour and the Human Biting Rates (HBR) are needed to assess the epidemiology of the disease and in es...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24301
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of towards pharmaceutical care for pharmacists working in community pharmacy in Alqassim region in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mthedology: Two hundred twenty four pharmacists were included using a pretested self administered...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23920
Background: Student training through the delivery of comprehensive care is the key mission of any dental school. Comprehensive care consists of complete patient evaluation and treatments in terms of, the patient’s dental needs and desires was identified and it implies that all th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25700
Aim: Few studies have been reported a correlation between periodontal disease and erectile dysfunction in men. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the sexual behaviour of adult male rats with experimental periodontitis. Materials and Methods: Fourteen male rats were div...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25998
Yu Tanabe, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Taketo Okubo, Yongji Kim, Midori Ishii, Takayuki Kawasaki, Kiyoshi Matsuoka, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Naoko Okubo, Yuichiro Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Saito & Kazuo Kaneko·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Background: In 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the term locomotive syndrome (LS) and the Japan Locomo Challenge Promotion Conference (JLCPC) began to carry out continuous campaigns to increase the LS recognition. LS awareness and prevention activities ha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26127
Introduction: Technology plays a major role in caring for critically ill patients. Its’ use in patient care can improve patient safety, save patients’ lives, facilitate nurses’ work and save time for them and reduce hospital costs. However, along with these benefits, technology c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25820
Aims: This study was possible to identify factors associated with the severity of different pathogens and duration of hospitalization in diarrheal patients from stool depending and find the difference in the socio-economical background of their families. Study Design: Samples wer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25769
Background: Hand Dermatitis affects a significant portion of the population. The disease is severely distressing and has chronic course with negative impact on quality of life. Aim: To evaluate the clinical profile and quality of life in hand eczema patients. Materials and Method...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20248
We are describing the case of a 27-year-old female with no previous psychiatric history who developed post-psychotic PTSD after presenting with first episode catatonia and psychosis. The patient initially presented to the emergency department with increasingly disorganized behavi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26114
Background: The persistence of severe intra-partum events as causes of perinatal mortality may be due to the poor care pregnant women receive in labour. The quality and scope of care received in labour varies with the types of health facilities patronized. Objective: To describe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26370
Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) disease has become public health concern, because of its increasing rate worldwide especially in developing countries. Previous studies have used statistical methods like multiple regression and correlation to show factors associated wi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25862