BACKGROUND A retrospective study was done on Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB), among elderly diabetic patients residing in Chitwan, Nepal from 1st January 2006 to 12th December 2006. Diabetic patients above 40 years of age were included in this study where as below 40 years of age group were excluded. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of ASB among elderly diabetic patients for the Bacteriologic...

Leprosy is a disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that carries a high risk of disability, making early diagnosis mandatory. This study aimed to determine the applicability of anti-PGL-1 IgM antibody detection, using the ML FLOW technique, as an assistant tool for the detection of leprosy infection in asymptomatic household contacts (AHHC) of multibacillary leprosy index cases from Midwest Bra...

Prostate cancer is known as a disease with an extremely high prevalence relative to its clinical incidence in the population. The combination of preclinical incidence and duration that could yield this phenomenon is of tremendous interest to researchers trying to understand the natural history of the disease and to develop efficient screening strategies. In this article, the authors present est...

BACKGROUND The glaucomas are generally asymptomatic diseases until they are very advanced. They affect 2% of the population over 40 years of age and therefore represent a significant public health issue. There have been a number of attempts to develop quality of life scales for the disease. This review discusses the pros and cons of these scales and suggests the best of the current ones for use...

Urinary tract morbidity has increased by 7% in Kazakhstan between 2007 to 2011. Pregnant women with extragenital pathologies or kidney diseases had the greatest prevalence of morbidity. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (AB) is one of the most important risk factors of pyelonephritis development in pregnant women, and it can affect the course and outcome of pregnancy, delivery, and postnatal period. AB ...

This paper presents a community based study of treatment seeking among people with symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in rural Uganda. The effects of asymptomatic infections and treatment seeking behavior on control of sexually transmitted disease were quantified. The study suggests that treating only individuals with STD symptoms results in only a small proportion of the i...

Hypertension is the number 1 risk factor for mortality in the world1 and an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke.2,3 Hypertension is typically diagnosed and managed in the outpatient setting and is one of the most common reasons to visit a family physician.4 With almost a quarter of the adult population and almost half of people aged 50 years and older having hypertension...

background: the ob­jective of this study was to find an appropriate approach to asymptomatic malaria in elimination setting through a systematic review. methods: a broad search was conducted to find articles with the words ‘malaria’ in their titles and ‘asymptomatic’ or ‘submicroscopic’ in their texts, irrespective of the type of study conducted. the cochrane, medline/pubmed, and scopus databas...