Background: Malaria and peptic ulcer disease (PUD) remain major causes of illness in many tropical and subtropical areas, where both diseases occur in the same populations and share similar epidemiological and socioeconomic factors. Although malaria has traditionally been conside...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96204
Background: Ankyloglossia (tongue-tie) is a congenital condition in which a short, thick, or anteriorly placed lingual frenulum restricts tongue mobility, with potential adverse consequences including difficulties with breastfeeding, speech, dental development, and quality of lif...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96201
Digital facebow transfer and virtual articulators have moved occlusal rehabilitation from a predominantly mechanical analogue of the patient towards a multimodal digital representation that can combine dentition, facial references, interarch relationships and, increasingly, mandi...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96202
Akhigbe Mabel O., V. Uhomohasebhor Eseohe, Edigberhi Emmanuel, O. Okojie Agatha Ilebalumen, Ehizuelen G. Ehis, Ogunmola Botiwuoluwa, O. Edogun Judith, Aigbe D. Idehen & Ojie-Okojie Jesuite·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2026
Background: Sickle cell disease management in Nigeria is influenced by household resources, insurance, service capacity and social conditions, but the evidence is dispersed across clinical, economic and psychosocial studies. Objective: To synthesise evidence on socioeconomic dete...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96203
Background: Garcinia indica (Thouars) Choisy (Vrikshamla), a medicinal and culinary plant of the family Clusiaceae, is used in Ayurveda and is valued for its organic acids, anthocyanins, phenolics, flavonoids, and related phytoconstituents. Reliable botanical and analytical refer...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96200
Background: Measles can produce substantial lymphoid tissue injury and immunosuppression, but age-related patterns of apoptotic and proliferative activity in regional lymph nodes during fatal measles in infancy remain insufficiently characterised. Aims: To evaluate age-related ch...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96199
The developing heart is unusually exposed to the nutritional environment because it must sustain a continuously rising cardiac output while its own mass, metabolic machinery and extracellular matrix are still being assembled. Both ends of the nutritional spectrum leave a cardiac...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96198
The intestinal microbial community assembles during the same developmental window in which adiposity, islet autoimmunity, hepatic lipid handling and linear growth are established, and this temporal coincidence has encouraged the view that microbial variation is a modifiable deter...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96196
Background: Myocardial infarction is associated with oxidative stress, cellular injury and dysregulation of inflammatory signalling. Agaricus bisporus contains diverse bioactive constituents with reported antioxidant and pharmacological activities, but its cardioprotective effect...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96197
Background: Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP) is associated with pain, disability, and restricted shoulder function. Scapular stabilisation exercises are commonly used in rehabilitation, while dry needling may provide adjunctive pain modulation. Whether dry needling adds...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96195
Aim: To describe an uncommon postauricular dermoid cyst in a young Nigerian man and document its clinical, radiological, operative, and histopathological features. Presentation of Case: A 29-year-old man presented with a slow-growing right postauricular mass that had been noticed...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96194
Aim: To describe an uncommon cutaneous horn on the volar surface of a finger in a young Nigerian adult and highlight the unusual age and anatomical site. Presentation of Case: A 29-year-old man presented with a solitary lesion over the volar aspect of the proximal interphalangeal...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96193
Background: High blood cholesterol is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but evidence on associated factors among Indigenous adults in Canada remains limited. Objective: To identify demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and clinical factors associated wit...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96191
Pandemics and pandemic-scale emergencies of the past three decades have produced an unusually large and heterogeneous body of evidence, yet the epidemiological, mechanistic and clinical literatures have largely developed in parallel and have rarely been appraised together. This r...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96192
Background: Hypertension is a leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, with a disproportionate burden in low- and middle-income countries, including Nigeria. Questions remain regarding real-world prescribing patterns, blood pressure responses, an...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2026/v38i96190