Introduction: Following the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared this infectious disease as a pandemic. Unlike previous infectious outbreaks such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middl...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i530841
Aims: Utilization of modern contraception to prevent pregnancies is a unique health intervention as unplanned pregnancies expose women to additional health risks and lifetime risk of maternal mortality by increasing the number of lifetime pregnancies and deliveries. This study th...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i530843
Aims: Despite control measures adopted to check the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, healthcare workers still face a serious threat to infection due to SARS-CoV-2 virus. Adherence to control measures by healthcare workers depends on their knowledge. This study ai...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i430839
Background: Anastomotic leakage is a serious complication in colorectal surgery, often associated with higher morbidity and mortality. Even with advances in medical technology and devices, the rates of anastomotic leakage is not on downward trend. We describe our experimental and...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i530840
Background: Valid and reliable methods are essential to assess the presence and the extent of insulin resistance, the associated risk factors and the effect of pharmacological and lifestyle interventions. The aim of this work was to evaluate Homeostatic model assessment of insuli...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i430837
Background: Cartilage mapping using Magnetic Resonance Imaging T2 is a functional scanning procedure without invasion delivering cartography of the cartilage T2 relaxation time without using of any contrast. It is tissue anisotropy sensitive, and compositional data on the collage...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i430838
Background: Faculty of Medicine and Defence Health in the National Defence University of Malaysia is the only university in the country that offers a unique combination of medical education and military training into an integrated academic programme. Objective: To communicate to...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i430835
Background: Childhood obesity is a worldwide chronic public health problem. It was found that obesity is associated with iron deficiency and iron profile abnormalities, which appear to be caused by several factors such as decreased intake, insufficient bioavailability, and defici...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i430836
Introduction: Urinary tract infection is one of the common community and nosocomial problem that we encounter at a daily basis. The mounting problem of emergence of resistant strains of bacteria causing urinary tract infection (UTI) is a great concern. We had tried in this study...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i430834
Developmental venous anomaly (DVA)/ Cerebral Venous Angioma is the most common type of cerebral vascular malformations, mostly an incidental benign finding. But there are documented associated complications like parenchymal signal abnormalities, thrombosis, cavernous malformation...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i430828