Tahir Saghir

Periodontitis, Cardiovascular Disease and Fetuin A: A Triad

Raima Bashir, Mervyn Hosein, . Zil-e-Rubab, Tahir Saghir & Fizza Saher · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2021

Periodontitis and cardiovascular diseases are two most common and related pathologies which may aggravate each other’s pathophysiological impact. Long standing periodontitis leads to a systemic inflammatory response which elicits as well as exacerbates the cardiovascular disease...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i830887

Mean Levels of B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in Patients with Mitral Stenosis Caused by Rheumatic Heart Disease

Altaf Hussain, Faraz Farooq Memon, Iftikhar Ahmed, Syed Ahsan Raza, Lajpat Rai, Ashok Kumar, Atif Ahmed Khan, Javed Akbar Sial, Tariq Ashraf, Tahir Saghir & Nadeem Qamar · Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International · 2021

Objective: Mitral stenosis caused by rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most common cause of valvular lesion in adults and prevalent in developing countries like Pakistan. Higher natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels can be observed in patients with moderate to severe untreated mitr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60A34460