Purpose: Disability is a potential risk for stroke survivors. This study aims to identify disability risk factors associated with stroke and their relative importance and relationships from a national behavioral risk factor dataset. Methods: Data of post-stroke individuals in the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21601
Aim: To document the conditions requiring dialysis in children at the University College Hospital, Ibadan Nigeria, at the end of the 20th century, as well as the available dialytic modalities and short-term outcomes of dialysis for future comparisons. Patients and Methods: The da...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20470
Aim: To assess the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in patients of psoriasis and its relation with disease severity. Materials and Methods: The study was cross sectional and hospital based. It was conducted on one hundred psoriasis patients of psoriasis between 18 to 70 years of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20759
Head and neck cancers is one of the common health problems in our environment affecting relatively the youth. The paucity of literature on community based studies in Nigeria to determine the incidence of the disease obscure its burden, pattern and magnitude. This study presents e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20344
Aim: This study was designed to explore and exploit the phytotherapeutic and fertility effects of ethanolic leaf extract of Dracaena arborea in type-1 Alloxan-induced diabetic rats. The phytotherapeutic effects of Dracaena arborea on hematological parameters, appetite, spermiogra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21640
Resuscitation with intravenous fluid therapy is considered a corner stone in the management of critically ill patients in most acute conditions. In daily practice, the assessment of individual thresholds in order to optimize cardiac preload and avoid hypovolemia or deleterious fl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20278
Aims: To acquire preliminary information in order to assess the efficacy of a university-based exercise program developed to serve members of the community suffering from symptoms associated with cancer fatigue. Study Design: The pilot study included 35 adult cancer patients who...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20214
Aim: To study (1) effect of pioglitazone mono-therapy on body composition in treatment naive type-2 diabetes mellitus patients and (2) relationship between changes in body composition and insulin resistance induced by pioglitazone. Methods: Subjects: 49 newly diagnosed non-obese...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21556
Aim: To estimate prevalence of TB among inmates and staff of three prisons in south India. Place of Study: The study was undertaken in three purposively selected prisons in Karnataka State, India, namely, Belgaum, Mysore and Mangalore prisons. Methodology: A descriptive, cross-s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21444
Ranula is a cystic lesion arising in the oral cavity in relation to the sublingual gland. Typically ranulas are unilateral although there has been a report of superficial dissecting ranula crossing the midline thus presenting as a bilateral lesion. This article is about our exper...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20419