Leonor de Castro Monteiro Loffredo, Rodolpho Telarolli Júnior, Walter Manso Figueiredo, Bruno Lian Sartore Segantini, Christian Wagner Maurencio, Fabiano Santos Galego, João Ramalho Borges & Társis Eschaquetti Benevides·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2018
Aim: Dengue is an important public health problem in the world, typical of tropical regions and has become an urban disease. The incidence of dengue was studied, as the epidemiological and clinical aspects of the patients in an area of SP State in 2015. Design: It was a cross-sec...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40896
Background: Inflammatory Bowel Disease has a growing incidence, especially in countries with increasing urbanization and increasing exposure to risk factors leading to inflammatory bowel disease. Such morbidity is still marked by the lack of epidemiological studies in the world....
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40710
Aim: This study was aimed at assessing the pattern and reasons for work absenteeism among health care workers at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria. Study Design: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out amongst health workers at th...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40467
Background: Preterm babies contribute the bulk of neonatal deaths globally. Neonatal deaths constitute about 46% of childhood deaths. Therefore, reduction of mortality among preterm babies is desired for reduction of childhood mortality. Objective: To examine the pattern of morta...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40833
Jejunal fluid absorption in vivo was reduced by distension and by hydrostatic pressure and further declined on adding E. coli STa enterotoxin but no net fluid secretion was detected. Luminal atropine reduced pressure mediated reductions in fluid absorption to normal values but in...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/39184
Aim: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of multi-antibiotic resistant bacteria in poultry faecal and soil samples from poultry farms in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. Introduction: The indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the treatment of animals' infection and as...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/39868
Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge, perception, and prevalence of bullying among the medical students of Quetta. Methods: This study was a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study which was conducted on medical students of 1st through the 5th year from Bola...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40585
Oluwatoni O. Onabolu, Olatunbosun Olawale, Olubunmi T. Bodunde, Adetunji H. Ajibode, Taibat O. Otulana, Olubukola A. Ayeni, Adeduntan S. Olagbenro & Philip Olatunji·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2018
Background: Toxoplasmosis is the presumed cause of posterior uveitis in South West Nigeria, and patients are mostly treated empirically on the basis of clinical findings. Aim: To determine the level of IgG and IgM toxoplasma antibodies consistent with diagnosis of toxoplasma asso...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40572
This paper presents and explores the most frequent and most significant fallacies about probability in the medical fields. We allude to simple mathematical representations and derivations as well as to demonstrative calculations to expose these fallacies, and to suggest possible...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40784
The core objective of the current article is to highlight some time related issues of medical education. In the last few decades, a significant high trend for studying medical education has been observed. In many countries, a significant surplus pool of doctors are waiting for re...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40048
Background: Hazardous alcohol consumption among university students has an adverse impact on public health and economic development. Aim: The study aimed to describe behavioural habits of alcohol abusing students at a State University in Zimbabwe. Methods: A cross-sectional stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/34607
Objectives: The routine use of prenatal ultrasonography in all pregnancies had been of concern, especially in resource-limited developing countries. The study aims to evaluate the prenatal use of ultrasonography in our tertiary health institution to determine the cost-effectivene...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/39920
Deficiencies in professional training, ethical care, and clinical competence are underlying contributors to healthcare inequities that result in poor health outcomes for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community. The goal of this paper is to initiate an...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40721
Toxoplasmosis is a neglected tropical zoonotic infection caused by an intercellular protozoan parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. T. gondii infection is gaining prominence as an important public health parasitic infection and possibly the aetiology of some cases of schizophrenia....
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/39954
Introduction: Induced abortion, defined as terminating pregnancy intentionally by medical intervention, has been discussed for centuries due to its medical, religious, moral, sociological and reproductive aspects. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigates nursing,...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40483