Aims: Acute pancreatitis is a severe inflammation of the pancreas presenting sudden onset with high morbidity and mortality. Simple, accessible, cost-efficient and feasible laboratory tests are still needed to demonstrate the prognosis of the patients. The aim of the present stud...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i430196
Khalid Abbas Owish Sukar, Rihab Ibrahim Abdalla, Humeda Suekit Humeda, Ahmed Omer Alameen & Eltayeb Ibrahim Mubarak·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2020
Aims: This study was designed to investigate the effect of Pear millet on glycaemic control and lipid profile in streptozocin diabetic rat model. Methodology: Forty healthy mature male rats were used in this study. The rats divided into 4 groups, ten rats in each and group (A) an...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330193
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large group from the Coronaviridae family that cause a variety of diseases, from the common cold to more serious clinical conditions such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. This pathogen, which has a single chain, positive polarity and enveloped RNA viruses and c...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i430194
Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus strain. The virus is believed to spread mainly by respiratory droplets where the infected people breathe, cough or sneeze and expel little droplets of moisture that contain the...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330192
Background: Elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) requires adequate and continuous use of family planning commodities among women of reproductive age. This can be made possible by reducing the proportion of HIV positive women wi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330191
Aim: With the rise of metabolic disorders like obesity in developed countries, maintenance of healthy lifestyle has become very challenging. Food plays a very important role in this process. Consumption of healthy foods with proper portion control can help in controlling excess w...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330189
Aims: To validate Sinhala version of HLS-EU-Q16 and asses the relationship between level of health literacy and control of blood sugar among diabetics and blood pressure among hypertensives. Study Design: This study evaluated the psychometric properties of Sinhala translation of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330188
Background: Skin diseases are common among children in the developing countries in Sub Saharan Africa where there is low level of hygiene, overcrowding and warm humid climates. However, there are no known community based studies on the prevalence of skin diseases among primary s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230190
Background: Birth weight is an important indicator of health status of an infant and is a principal factor that determines the infant‘s, physical, survival and mental growth. Though efforts made in reducing incidences of low birth weight worldwide, the problem of l...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330186
Pneumonia triggered by novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Wuhan, China in December 2019 is a extremely contagious disease. The WHO has stated the outbreak of Covid 19(Corona virus) as a pandemic issue. Currently, the research on this virus is in its primary stage. Based on the exi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230185
Background: In India, Anaemia among children is still one of the major nutritional problems of public health concern. Aim of the Study: The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of anaemia among Anganwadi children (3-6 years of age) and to determine the important...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230184
Background: Learning preference is the effective and efficient modality or manner in which a learner has a natural preference to perceive process, store and recall new information. Learning style is the composite of cognitive, affective and physiological characteristics that indi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230183
Background: Despite the numerous functions of vitamin D, there are still billions of people worldwidewho have vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, and the highest prevalence is in the Middle East, mostly females. Aim of The Study: This study aimed to assess the knowledge and be...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230182
Background: Standard precautions (SPs) in the hospital are very important in the reduction of health care workers’ exposure to occupational health hazards but most hospitals are used to reactive rather than proactive safety practices. The effect of reactive safety practices is ov...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230181
Aim: This study is to determine the prevalence, causes, types and patterns of hearing impairment seen in a tertiary hospital in the Niger delta region. Study Design: A hospital based descriptive study of all patients with complaints of hearing impairment seen at the ear nose and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230180