Bangladesh is a South Asian country with a homogeneous population. However, some difference has been demonstrated in the distribution of liver disease in different parts of the country. Hepatitis E remains the principal cause of acute hepatitis in Bangladesh, while chronic liver disease in Bangladesh, including hepatocelullar carcinoma, is predominantly due to hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis B has...

Bishwajit Bhowmik, Faria Afsana, Lien My Diep, Sanjida Binte Munir, Erica Wright, Sharif Mahmood, A. K. Azad Khan, Akhtar Hussain Department of Community Medicine, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway, 2 Department of Endocrinology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka,...

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur 1704, Bangladesh Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi 6204, Bangladesh Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh Department of Communication Sc...

conclusions these findings underscored the importance of monitoring and developing guidelines for better management of infectious diarrhoea in bangladesh and elsewhere. background diarrhoea is considered as the most widespread illness occurring in bangladesh. in addition, the growing antimicrobial resistance of diarrhoeal pathogens in this developing country hardens physicians to supervise pati...

under 5 Years of Age Presenting to a Diarrheal Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1996 to 2007 Daniel Leung, MD; Sumon Das, MBBS; M.A. Malek; A.S.G. Faruque, MBBS, MPH; Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, MBBS, MMed; Edward T. Ryan, MD, DTMH, FIDSA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Ba...

Background: This review was performed to evaluate the trend of alcohol use, characteristics of consumers, alcohol use disorders and toxic alcohol intoxications in Bangladesh. In addition, sources and sales figures of alcoholic beverages, and number of legal permits issued for alcohol consumption are reported and analyzed. Methods: A narrative search was performed on available medical literature...

1. General Introduction 1.1. The lifecycles of Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides 1.2. Morbidity and burden of disease 1.3. Epidemiology and age profiles of infection 1.4. Predisposition and susceptibility to infection 1.5. Immunological responses and the peak shift hypothesis 1.6. Treatment and control 1.7. Helminth frequency distributions 1.8. Density dependence in helminth species ...

This paper examines the long run cointegrating relation and short run dynamics among carbon emissions, energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, financial development and openness to trade in Bangladesh by using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach of cointegration. Empirical results for Bangladesh over the period 1975-2010 suggest an evidence of a long-run rel...

Background: Green pit viper bite is an important cause of morbidity in Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics and clinical presentations of green pit viper bite in Bangladesh. Methods: This prospective observational study was done in the department of Medicine in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh. A total of 40 patients with history of green...

Background: Snakebite is the most important cause of envenomation in South Asia particularly in Bangladesh, though there is lack of data from the rural part of the country. About 82 species of snakes (28 venomous) exist in Bangladesh. In this study, demographic characteristics of the victim, circumstances behind the bite along with pre-hospital and hospital managements and outcomes were evaluat...