Psychosis is a chronic recurrent neuropsychiatric disorder that impairs the quality of life of the individuals and represents a major public health issue. Poverty, unemployment, family instability, substance misuse and obstetric complications are the major risk factors for the ri...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/20144
Introduction: Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is the most common gastrointestinal problem in children. The role of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) with recurrent abdominal pain is not known precisely. Since H. pylori infection may be one of the symptoms of abdominal pain. The aim...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/20141
A series of clustered infectious-like events have been recently documented in both the northern hemisphere (Canada, UK [England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales], all countries in the European Union, and the USA) and the southern hemisphere (Australia and New Zealand), in wh...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20062
Background: An increase in the number of medically compromised patients in dental clinics may cause serious problems for practicing dentists all over the world. When a dentist does not understand well the relationship between oral and systemic diseases, dental care may become a q...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19576
Aims: To report SFT in a 45 years male who had a lobulated tumor in neck for longest duration of 18 years with borderline histomorphology. Presentation of Case: The case discussed is of a forty-five year old Indian man who presented with painless mass in right side of neck for th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20635
Aim: We present a case of histoplasmosis presenting with skin nodules and lymphadenopathy from a non endemic area. Case Presentation: A 60-year-old male presented with multiple skin nodules and lymphadenopathy. Discussion: Histoplasmosis is a rare fungal infection caused by dimor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20732
Odontogenic tumours encompass a diverse group of uncommon tumours that are frequently aggressive in their biological behaviour. They comprise 2.4% of all the lesions biopsied in the dental office. Odontogenic tumours have for years been recognized for presenting clinical & hi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20162
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients have mechanisms that are thought to protect them more than apparently normal individuals from iron deficiency. However, evidence exists that in SCD, hypoferritinaemia may be more prevalent than hyperferitinaemia, especially in develo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20405
Aim: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and all its components are independently characterized by the presence of low-grade chronic inflammation. The study aimed at controlling inflammation using sulfasalazine 500mg, once a day treatment in comparison to placebo in MetS patients. Study De...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20571
Jung Hye Sung, Joseph Yeboah, Jae Eun Lee, Che L. Smith, James G. Terry, Mario Sims, Tandaw Samdarshi, Solomon Musani, Ervin Fox, Yaorong Ge, James G. Wilson, Herman A. Taylor & Jeffery Carr·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2015
Background: The role of coronary artery calcium (CAC) as a screening tool for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in African Americans (AAs) is unclear. We compared the diagnostic accuracy for CVD prevalence using the CAC score and the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) in an adult popula...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21449
Aims: To evaluate the association between knee flexion range of motion (ROM) and Osgood-Schlatter syndrome among adolescent soccer players. Study Design: Observational case-control study. Methodology: A study group of 20 male soccer players, mean age 13.4 years (13.4±0.7) diagnos...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20753
Aims: This study aimed to compare the number of daily servings intake from different food groups in metabolic syndrome (MetS) patients with the control groups. Study Design: Case control, comparative cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Endocrinology and Metabolism...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19832
This feeding trial was conducted to assess the body composition and product quality of Clarias gariepinus fed dietary levels of Azadirachta Indica leaf meal (AILM). Four isonitrogenous diets of 36% crude protein were formulated containing 0, 5, 10 and 15% AILM (Diets 1-4). The di...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/19405
Two approaches to parameter estimation for a mixture of two univariate Gaussian distributions are numerically compared. The proposed method (PM) is based on decomposing a continuous function into its odd and even components and estimating them as polynomials, the other is the usu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/16617
Phenols and their derivatives are broadly distributed as a characteristic pollutant due to its frequent presence in effluents of many industrial processes. Most of the phenolic compounds are toxic to living organisms as well as environment, even at low concentration. These phenol...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/19936