AIM To assess the clinical characteristics of patients with complicated erosive esophagitis (EE) and their associated factors. METHODS This prospective, cross-sectional study included patients diagnosed with EE by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy between October 2014 and March 2015 at 106 Japanese hospitals. Data on medical history, general condition, gastrointestinal symptoms, lifestyle habi...

We investigate an AOR-Newton method and an AOR method for solving a system of nonlinear equations F (x) = 0, where F is strongly monotone, locally Lipschitz continuous but not necessarily differentiable. The convergence intervals of parameters for the AOR-Newton method and AOR method are given. Numerical examples show that these AOR-type methods can converge faster than the corresponding SORtyp...

Typhoidal (Salmonella enterica serover Typhi and Para-typhi A and B) (TS) and non-typhiodal Salmonella (NTS) gastroenteritis are less reported in Bangladesh. There is also a lack of report on socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of Bangladeshi people with typhoid fever and those with non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) gastroenteritis. Thus, the present study aimed to compare the socio-dem...

OBJECTIVE The rising incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in Asia supports the importance of environmental risk factors in disease aetiology. This prospective population-based case-control study in Asia-Pacific examined risk factors prior to patients developing IBD. DESIGN 442 incident cases (186 Crohn's disease (CD); 256 UC; 374 Asians) diagnosed between 2011 and 2013 from eight countries...

Background: Obesity is a major health problem in many countries such as Iran. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity their associated risk factors Bandare-Kong, Hormozgan, Materials Methods: cross-sectional survey included 3921 participants Bandare-Kong Cohort Study (BKNCD). Their baseline data were used for analysis. General was defined body mass index (BMI)≥30 k...

Background. Ethiopia is among highly tuberculosis affected countries. This might be related to low level of awareness on the disease in the population. The objective of the study was to determine the level of tuberculosis knowledge and socioeconomic factors associated with it. Methods. The 2011 Ethiopia health and demographic survey data were used. Overall tuberculosis knowledge score was compu...