BACKGROUND Chewing fresh leaves of the khat plant (Catha edulis forsk) is a deep rooted and widespread habit in East Africa and the Middle East. Although a body of knowledge exists about the adverse effects of khat on health, data are sparse with regard to the consequences of long-term khat chewing in resulting schizophrenic like symptoms. METHODS A crude extract of khat at different doses (1...

Pain of the tempro-mandibular joint (TMJ) has a direct bearing to missing teeth and excessive physical activity. Consumption of qat requires chewing on the leaves to extract their juice for long hours. A 65-year-old male Yemeni patient, a Qat chewer, reported to the university dental hospital at King Khalid University complaining of pain in left temporomandibular joint with missing mandibular a...

INTRODUCTION Mental distress is becoming a common health problem among university students. There is limited information in this regard in Ethiopia. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence and associated factors of mental distress among students in Adama University. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in March2011. Four hundred and thirteen students were participated in the...

Abstract Monocropping of perennial cash crops providing livelihood for smallholders is replacing native forest throughout the tropics, but there no direct empirical evidence on impact soil organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen (N) relative to multistrata-agroforestry-based cropping. In particular, conversion forests cropping a rapidly expanding monocropping khat ( Catha edulis Forskal) not known. W...

Khat chewing is a widespread habit that has a deep-rooted socio-cultural tradition in East Africa and in the Middle East. Although a number of investigations have been carried out using cathinone, the psychoactive component of khat, these may not wholly reflect the behavioral effects observed after administering khat in a dosage similar to those used traditionally. The aim of the present study ...

AIM Qat chewing has been reported to induce subgingival microbial shifts suggestive of prebiotic-like properties. The objective here was to assess the effect of qat chewing on a panel of classical and new putative periopathogens in health and periodontitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS 40 qat chewers and 40 nonchewers, equally stratified by periodontal health status, were recruited. Taqman, real-tim...

BACKGROUND Catha edulis Forsk. (Khat) is used for its psychoactive effects among people in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, although its utilization is illegal in some countries such as Saudi Arabia. This study examined the pattern of Khat use and assessed the applicability of the Drug Abuse Screening Test-10 (DAST-10) to measure Khat dependence. METHODS A pretested questionnaire was used to...

This study assessed the effect of qat chewing on periodontal health, independent of other risk factors. Four hundred qat chewers and 100 nonchewers (20-50 years) were included. Demographic data and detailed information about chewing and smoking were obtained. Periodontal status was assessed using Community Periodontal Index (CPI) and clinical attachment loss (CAL). The qat chewers were older, i...

There is also a lack of useful statistics for Scrabble players. James Cherry, author of an on-line Scrabble computer, simulated 5000 games and presented a body of statistics on it such as means, modes and standard deviations of winning game scores, aggregate game scores, highest scoring moves, number of bingoes per game, number of moves per game, and others. Statistics invaluable to wordgame pr...