Childhood tuberculosis in Indonesia is the third most common world, 2020 number of new child Tuberculosis cases decreased by 32.4%, this still far from government's target 2024, which 90%. Bandung Regency has 62 health centers, highest TB at Linggar Health Center, namely 42 children with due to family factors that have smoking habits. The aim study was determine relationship between habits and ...

Background: Conflicting studies link several conditions and risk factors to Dupuytren’s disease (DD). A questionnaire-based case-control study was set to investigate associated conditions and clinical features of DD in a sample of Italian patients. The main purpose was the identification of predicting factors for: DD development; involvement of multiple rays; involvement of both hands; developm...

Objective: We aimed to determine respiratory morbidity of late preterm infants versus with intrauterine growth retardation
 (IUGR) at school-age.
 Patients and Methods: Late appropriate for gestational age (AGA) (34-36, 6/7 weeks) (Group 1), IUGR (Group
 2), extremely AGA 3) term 4) born between 2004 2008 were included in this casecontrol
 study assessed school-age. evaluate...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a health concern which leads to complications such as retinopathy. Pakistan has 6.9 million people living with DM and this toll will be doubled by 2025. Objective: To determine serum IL-6 and IL-17 of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with retinopathy. Methods: In this cross-sectional casecontrol study, 212 subjects enrolled which were categorized in...

Background: Generalized vitiligo is characterized by autoimmunedestruction of melanocytes, which results in patches of thedepigmented skin and the overlying hair. Vitamin D is an essentialhormone synthesized in the skin and is responsible for skinpigmentation. Low vitamin D levels have been noted in patientswith a variety of autoimmune diseases. A recent study showedthat low vitamin D levels ma...

Aim. To study the dynamics and pattern of publications in Russian on post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) order to assess completeness information identify medical specialties with its most active investigation Russia. Material methods . The search for was carried out database largest digital scientific library Russia Elibrary.ru from February 1, 2021 2022. included publicly available consequences coro...

Background: Angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) is a Zinc metalloproteinase, converts Ang-I to Ang- II, a pro-inflammatory agent which may contribute to pathophysiology of some diseases like type 2 diabetes. Objective: To investigate the relationship between ACE I/D polymorphism and type 2 diabetes in 261 Iranian casecontrol pairs. Methods: 170 patients (85 type 2 diabetics with nephropathy a...

Background: Chlamydia Trachomatis (CT) is an obligate intracellular bacteria, that requires living cells to replicate itself and is responsible for lower urinary tract disease in men and women. It can cause urethritis, epididymitis, orchitis and complications such as chronic prostatitis in men. Chlamydia infections may also directly affect male fertility by damaging the sperm, because sperm par...