OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge of male medical students about Hepatitis-B in their preclinical and clinical years and to investigate the self reported vaccination status of these students. METHODS In the year of 2007, 187 male students of Isra University Hyderabad Sindh Pakistan were selected by convenient sampling and surveyed with a self reported questionnaire comprising of questions reg...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the conditions of functional health literacy of an elderly diabetics group. METHOD cross-sectional and descriptive study, with diabetic's elderly assisted in the SUS (N = 114). The social and health conditions were evaluated as well as functional health literacy by S-TOFHLA test (short version); the simple proportions, average, standard deviation and Pearson's Chi-square...

Objective: To evaluate the liver biopsies of patients with chronic viral hepatitis and autoimmune hepatitis based on age, gender, clinical features with staging and grading of disease. Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted through case series and all patients who were positive for HBsAg or HCV Ab or autoimmune hepatitis, had liver biopsies and were assessed for staging and ...

The purpose of this study was to compare dentinal microcrack formation while using hand ProTaper (PT), ProTaper and ProTaper Next rotary files. Forty single rooted teeth were selected. 10 teeth were left unprepared and served as control, and the remaining 30 teeth were divided into 3 groups. After preparation with the file system selected, roots were sectioned 3, 6, and 9 mm from the apex, and ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the promoter region of MHC2TA gene (-168*G/A, rs3087456), which has previously been described in a Swedish rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cohort, in British Caucasian RA patients. METHODS We genotyped 733 RA patients and 613 healthy controls for MHC2TA -168*G/A SNP by amplification-refractory mutation system (ARM...

INTRODUCTION Patient's satisfaction with health care in ambulance services is an important quality indicator and a helpful tool for managers of prehospital emergency services. This study aimed to measure patient satisfaction with health provided by prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) in Lorestan, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on patients (n=450) transferred b...

Method A prospective, cross-sectional, quantitative study, with comparison groups, carried out between June-August 2012 included 207 users of the Family Health Unit Finch Low, divided into three groups according to Results of glycated hemoglobin, analyzed by standard American Diabetes Association. The sample was divided into three groups as users were diabetic treated in the unit (group A=53); ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the periodontal status of orthodontic patients and non-orthodontic patients, aged 15-28 years, of both genders. The cross-sectional study included 100 orthodontic and 100 non-orthodontic patients evaluated using a Community Periodontal Index for Treatment Need (CPITN) probe on the index teeth. A questionnaire was distributed to the partici...

Dysmenorrhoea, premenstrual syndrome and menstrual hygiene are leading contributors to the burden of disease borne by adolescent secondary school girls and this study sought to determine the prevalence of menstruationrelated problems among adolescent school girls in southern Nigeria. A crosssectional study design was used with a minimum sample size of 601 derived over 4 different centres (2 rur...