Background: Hepatitis C is increasingly found to be a significant etiological agent causing liver disease in India. Prevention is the best safeguard against this silent killer but a major obstacle has been the low awareness. Attitudes and awareness of general population can play...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19757
Aims: This pilot study investigated the effect and feasibility of a group cognitive behavioural therapy program in a Japanese community setting. Methodology: Participants were five patients with major depression. Ten weekly 1-hour sessions of group cognitive behavioural therapy w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19447
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is from herpesviridae family that is spread by close contact between susceptible persons and asymptomatic EBV carriers. EBV is the most common causative agent of infectious mononucleosis (IM), that persists asymptomatically for life in nearly all adults....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19434
Aims: To study the co infection of Hepatitis B (HBV) and/or Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected patients attending tertiary care teaching hospital in North East India. Study Design: This study was a cross sectional study. Place and Duration of t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19155
Introduction: This study deals with the study of memory rehabilitation in patients with Parkinson's disease. Measures included systematic rehabilitation techniques for the recovery of symptoms and had no errors. However, issues related to the design and implementation of effectiv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17587
Background: Sudan is now facing the reality of double burden disease. Non-communicable diseases constitute a larger burden in terms of morbidity and mortality and the trend is increasing. Behavioral factors are strongly implicated as risk factors and are subject to behavioral cha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19162
Background: Dermatoglyphics, the ridged skin covering our palms and sole, are not only found on human beings. All primates have ridged skin, and it can also be found on the paws of certain mammals and on the tails of some monkey species. Palmar creases develop during the 2nd and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22786
Using causal diagrams and an axiomatization of causality, we examined the well-known claim that conditioning on confounders (“adjustment” for confounders) is sufficient to remove confounding bias. We show that this advice is poorly stated and is incomplete. To remove confounding...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19751
Aim: To determine maternal thyroid hormone status and lipid profile in preeclampsia. Study Design: A prospective case control study consist of two groups such as group 1 normotensive non-preeclamptic group and group 2 as cases with clinically diagnosed preeclampsia Place and Dura...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19452
Aim: We investigated immediate short- term effect of Islamic Allah’s remembrance on depression, stress and anxiety of mothers of the CHD patients. Study Design and Methodology: The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-21) questionnaire was used in a quasi- experimental st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19526
Aim: The aim of this study was to retrospectively review the patient profiles with liver diseases in order to determine the frequency of medication errors among patients with liver diseases. Study Designed: Retrospective study was performed. Place and Duration of Study: Abbasi S...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17488
Ozone is a very reactive gas and is toxic for the respiratory system but, under precise rules, it can be therapeutically useful for human disease with a chronic oxidative stress. An unfavorable combination of factors such as a wrong dogma, the fact that ozone is one of the worst...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17684
Pyogenic granuloma is one of the inflammatory hyperplasia seen in the oral cavity. It arises in response to various stimuli such as low-grade local irritation, traumatic injury, or hormonal factors. It is most commonly seen in females in their second decade of life due to vascula...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17312
Background: Preeclampsia in Nigerian women is considered to have a rapidly progressive clinical course. Aim: In the present study we sought to determine the most appropriate gestational age (GA) for delivery in severe preeclampsia occurring preterm to achieve optimal neonatal out...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19217
Background: Birth spacing is a well-known and underutilized health intervention. Longer birth intervals are associated with multiple health benefits for both mother and the child. Aim: To determine the effect of birth interval on fetal outcome in our environment. Methods: A cros...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19604