Context: Alterations in urinary urobilinogen levels are frequently encountered in clinical practice but are often overlooked as a diagnostic tool. Evidence Acquisition: This review introduces an innovative clinical approach by emphasizing urobilinogen as an early and underutilize...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrrhe/2025/v7i150
Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, countries in the equatorial and tropical zones seem to have the lowest figures in terms of incidence and mortality. Throughout the pandemic, Africa has remained as lowest contin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2024/v15i5349
The coexistence of a high IgE level and transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy ( THI ) with atopic dermatitis (AD) is well known, but the coexistence with a marked serum IgE level ≥ 1000 IU/mL is a rare finding. Literature is scarce regarding IgE levels in patients with THI a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i2217
Background: Population growth rate (PGR )can reflect the age group structure of the community because low PGR usually indicates low birth rate and old age structure of the community. As PGR is a single easily recalled from public sources (unlike the age distribution), we designed...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2022/v34i2031514
Background: Recent epidemiological studies have demonstrated the efficacy of vaccines in reducing COVID-19 absolute case-fatality risks (CFRs) on a real-world global scale. However, these studies used cumulative (add-on) deaths and case accounts as nominators and denominators r...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2022/v34i1531398
Background: It is well known that COVID-19 vaccines demonstrate higher efficacy against mortality than mild acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The estimation of the proportion of mortalities among morbidities is a measure of the case fatality risk (CFR). To da...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2022/v9i230265
Background: Many factors have been suggested to confound coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) studies, and BCG studies have been criticized for not adjusting for many confounders. We conducted this study to analyze the presumed effectiveness of the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) v...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2021/v40i4431620