Asian Journal of Medicine and Health (ISSN: 2456-8414) aims to publish high quality papers in the areas of Medicine and Health Science. By not excluding papers based on novelty, this journal facilitates the research and wishes to publish papers as long as they are technically correct and scientifically motivated.
Over several decades, a wealth of expertise and experience in improving the quality of health care has accrued globally. Despite this wealth of expertise, the challenge that is often faced by country level policymakers in both high- and low-medium income countries is to know whic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i830356
PCOS, Polycystic ovary syndrome, is the most common endocrine disorder occurring in women with normal reproductive age. General symptoms of PCOS include irregular menstrual cycles, polycystic ovaries, hirsutism, and hyperandrogenism. Also, Insulin resistance that is associated wi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i830354
Background: It is well-known that hemodialysis extends the life of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, who would have otherwise died. The characteristics of long-term patients on hemodialysis (HD) were not evaluated before in Egypt. We aimed at identifying the specific char...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i830355
Background: Low vision and blindness are significant public health issues worldwide. They result in educational, occupational, and social challenges in the affected persons. Their care givers/ families are also severely affected. There is however limited data on the magnitude of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i830353
Aims: To determines the prevalence and risk factors for cutaneous mycoses (CMs) among boarding secondary schools’ students in Coast Region, Tanzania Study Design: It was a cross-sectional survey-based study involving boarding secondary schools’ students. Cluster sampling techniqu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i830352
Grace Okaliwe, Glory Mbe Egom Nja, Isaac Olushola Ogunkola, Regina Idu Ejemot-Nwadiaro & Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2021
Background: Breast cancer is the commonest cancer among women globally. Early screening remains a critical approach to reducing morbidity and mortality. Mammography, one of such screening tools, is vital in improving outcomes and survival. However, poor knowledge and ignorance ha...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i830351
Introduction: Alcohol is one of the most widely used drug substances in the world. Most people drink a small or moderate amount of alcohol to make them calm and enhance their social activities. Alcohol have become many individuals’ livelihood and that itself is a major catastroph...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i730350
The “Type of Article” of this paper is “Letter to the Editor”. This paper discuses about: “Intravenous L- Carnitine in HD patients and some of its benefits: A single-center Observation”. No formal abstract is available. Readers are requested to read the full article.
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i730347
The objective of this study is identifying the main risk factors for the emergence of respiratory diseases in poultry farms in the Senegalese region of Niayes. It took place in the period from August 2018 to February 2019 in 45 modern poultry farms in the regions of Dakar and Thi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i730345
The informed consent to blood transfusion is a patient centered care where the health care provider is ethically obliged and legally compelled to disclose the details, alternatives and consequences of a procedure such as blood donation or transfusion and obtain from the patient a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i730346