The rapid and dominant urbanization in Asian cities has fueled concerns regarding the local global efforts toward urban sustainability. Specifically, South have been a topical issue concerning ecological environmental threats due to their unplanned haphazard development. However, comparative studies remain uncommon. Therefore, this study, we sought comparatively examine land use cover (LULC) dy...

Karachi is known as one of the largest and fastest growing cities Pakistan having unconfirmed record population about 22 million with GDP 15 percent, from which 25 percent revenues are generated 62 cut down in income taxes. (Twen ty-one, 2016; Hasan, 2015). In past few years, many residential commercial projects have been completed Karachi, order to facilitate all groups. This research aims exp...

Asphalt is a visco-elastic material having properties of elastic solid at low temperature and viscous liquid at high temperature. Properties of asphalt binder depend upon temperature, rate of loading and aging conditions. Although asphalt binder is only 4-5 % of asphalt concrete mix by weight but it plays a vital role in defining the pavement performance. That is, pavement response is heavily d...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is highly prevalent in Pakistan and the numbers are on increase each year. Cervical lymphadenopathy, a common finding in tuberculosis and other inflammatory, infectious and malignant etiologies, is commonly encountered in hospital setting in Karachi, Pakistan. Signs and symptoms of tuberculosis are blood tinged sputum, weight loss, night sweats, loss of appetite and weak...

OBJECTIVE To determine awareness of cancer risk factors in the patients and attendants of Out-patient Clinics at a University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 315 respondents reporting to a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, to assess their level of awareness regarding risk factors of cancer. RESULTS The respondents belonged to an ur...

OBJECTIVE To objectively compare the differences in knowledge and practices regarding healthy lifestyle among medical and non-medical students of Karachi along with assessment of any perceived barriers. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 350 students between ages 17-24 years from 6 private universities of Karachi--three medical and three non-medical Institutions. A self-reported ques...

OBJECTIVE The role of respiratory viruses in causing severe, life threatening pneumonia in children in developing countries is not well established. Our study aims to determine the role of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), influenza A virus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children, aged 6 weeks to 2 years, hospitalized with WHO defined severe pneumonia (tachypnea plus any general danger si...

1Department of Cardiology, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan (Correspondence to K. Aziz: [email protected]). 2Pakistan Medical Research Council, Sindh Branch, Karachi, Pakistan. Received: 14/04/03; accepted: 29/03/04 ABSTRACT We determined the risk-factor profile and prevalence of coronary heart disease in Metroville, a lower middle class urban community...