OBJECTIVES TO COMPARE TWO MEASURES OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE) RESPONSE: the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG)-based Composite Lupus Assessment (BICLA) and the Systemic Lupus Responder Index (SRI) against a clinician's assessment of improvement. METHODS Ninety-one lupus patients were identified with two visits at which Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (...

BACKGROUND Excess body fat leads to obesity-related morbidity and population/ethnicity-specific cut-off values of anthropometric measures are useful for better diagnosis. This study assesses the suitability of newly-developed Sri Lankan anthropometric cut-off values in the diagnosis of obesity in Sri Lankan children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at University of Colombo, Sri ...

[Abstract: This study examines the interaction between religion and politics in Sri Lanka. Existing scholarly studies on Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict largely address the ethnic dimension of the conflict. Indeed, in the understanding of Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war, which has left 70,000 dead and displaced nearly a half-million people at its height generally, religion is rarely identified as hav...

Background In general, different foods and food ingredients are believed to be causing hypersensitivity/allergy among the Sri Lankan population. Global epidemiological observations have revealed lists and levels of hypersensitive foods but proper researches have been carried out in Sri Lanka for identifying food allergens. This study was carried out to obtain statistical data for different food...

1 Department of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka, 2 Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3 Asociacion Civil Selva Amazónica, Iquitos, Perú, 4 Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 5 University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, 6 National Institute for Medical Research, ...

Altex 31, 2/14 224 Alternatives Initiative in Sri Lanka: Preand Post-Conference Workshops at the Inaugural Scientific Conference of the Sri Lanka Association for Laboratory Animal Science Mangala Gunatilake 1, Francois Busquet 2, and Mohammad A. Akbarsha 3 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)-Europe, Ko...

THE INFLUENCE OF CEREBRAL INFARCT LOCATION AND VOLUME ON MOTOR AND FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AFTER STROKE: A NARRATIVE REVIEW Sivakumar. R *1, Meenakshisundaram. U 2, Shankar. V 3, Arun Maiya 4, Rajeswaran. R 5. *1 Additional Professor in Physiotherapy, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai 116. India. 2,3 Professor in Neurology, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai 116. India. 4 Professor...

1 Under-representation of developing countries in the research literature: ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals Authors Athula Sumathipala 1, 4, Sisira Siribaddana 2,4 and Vikram Patel 3. 1. Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London SE5 8AF. 2 Sri Jayewardenepura Postgraduate Teaching Hospital, Thalapathpitiya, Nugegoda, 10250, Sri ...

In the last decades, rice yields in South Asian countries grew tremendously in one hand and a noticeable yield fluctuation on the other. The objective of this study was to examine the rice yield distributions, estimate yield risks at country level, and compare risks between five countries namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. Anderson Darling (AD) test was applied to t...