Aims: Renal cell cancer is one of the major killer cancers affecting mankind. Various polymorphisms in different genes have been found to be associated with the disease. +936 C/T SNP in the VEGF gene has been reported to be associated with spread of metastasis in several parts of...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i730306
Zinc, an important micronutrient for the storage, structural stabilization, secretion and action of insulin, is present in highest concentration in pancreas. The transport of zinc occurs through the zinc transporter-8 (ZnT8) to the insulin secretory vesicles. Zinc Transporter-8 A...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i630304
Background: Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is essential to reduce the multiplication of the virus and improve disease outcomes. The studies have reported a range of factors influencing antiretroviral therapy adherence at various levels. Almost all studies were modeling the f...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i630305
The study investigated the efficacy of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Logotherapy in reducing risky sexual behaviours among in-school adolescents in Benin Metropolis, Edo State. Four research questions were raised and formulated to hypotheses to guide the study. A Quasi-experime...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i630302
Background: Hypertension is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and research studies done in Nigeria observed prevalence rate of hypertension to range from 26.4% to 36.9%. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the sociodemographic, clinical, behavioral and card...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i630303
Schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease caused by a digenetic trematode blood fluke of the genus Schistosoma. The disease remains a serious public health problem in endemic countries and affects at least 207 million people worldwide, with 85% in Africa. In Kenya, more than...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i630301
Objective: To evaluate the attitude, awareness and experience of Women towards the breast self-examination. Methods: This is population-based study with the total number of the participants were 349 between 25-70 yrs of age, between December 2017 to February 2018 at King Abdulazi...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i530300
Background: Obesity in children is rapidly emerging as a global epidemic that will have profound public health consequences as overweight children become overweight adults particularly if obesity is present in adolescence. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of overweight and...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i530299
Cholera is an acute severe watery diarrhoeal disease caused by a toxigenic strains of Vibrio cholerae. Significant clinical presentations characteristic of this disease include; asymptomatic intestinal colonization, accompanied by rapid fluid and electrolyte loss, cholera sicca (...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i530298
Mandibular osteomyelitis in a patient with psoriasis is an uncommonly clinical manifestation while there is an increasing number of reports and studies on involvements of stomatology in psoriasis, especially the death of a patient via or not via Allogeneic bone marrow transplanta...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i430295
Background: Adolescent obesity is a worldwide threatening health challenge. Current study was designed to assess the obesity and overweight occurrence in adolescent age groups of 12-18 years pertaining to high and low income groups of the city of Quetta Pakistan. Methods and Resu...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i530296
Aims: To determine the presentation, characteristics and associated co-morbidities in Nigerian men with prostate cancer. Study Design: Retrospective study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried at the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Jos University Teachin...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i530297
Background: Malaria remains a major public health threat claiming many lives particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Light microscopy and RDT are the mainstay tests in the clinical settings for malaria diagnosis. Many studies report varying levels of validity of these tests compared...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i430294
Background: Untreated maternal syphilis is strongly associated with adverse birth outcomes. The WHO recommends routine serological screening in pregnancy. Some workers have advised a reappraisal of this practice, having demonstrated low seroprevalence in their antenatal populatio...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i430293
The primary aim of this study is to make the indigenous cultural ways of identifying diseases known in order to promote and remove the mystery and superstition associated to them. Due to the nature of the study, the purposive sampling technique was largely employed. Interviews an...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i430291