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The demand for tooth whitening has increased dramatically over the past years with the resulting development of many new whitening products from as many different companies [13]. It seems that the success of tooth whitening depends mainly on the combination of the peroxide concentration and the application period . The...
Patients undergoing lt are known to develop the de novo hypertension (htn), with a reported incidence of 6070% . Haemodynamic behaviour in the short - term, immediately after liver transplant and before discharge from hospital is, however, less studied . The key to successful patient management after surgery lies in cl...
Reactions are carried out under argon atmosphere using modified schlenk techniques or in a glovebox . Fcph2 (1) was prepared according to a modified procedure by roesky et al . Starting from fcpcl2 . Nmr spectra were recorded with a varian unityinova 400 and a brukeravance 300 operating at a proton frequency of 399.983...
Addiction and opiate dependency in humans is growing on . According to the previous studies addictive drugs consumer mothers are one of the most important narcotic consumers that addiction side - effects will involve them and the next generation . Studies have shown that natural development of placental layers may be d...
Actinic keratosis (ak) is a common skin disease in older, fair - skinned people and is the consequence of cumulative exposure to ultraviolet light . The presence of ak is associated with an increase in the risk of invasive squamous cell carcinoma (scc), although which specific aks will progress to scc cannot be predict...
Paramedics are frequently required to perform tracheal intubation, a potentially life - saving manoeuvre in severely ill patients, in the prehospital setting . It is a difficult skill to acquire and to maintain, especially with limited training opportunities . Simulation training is an essential educational strategy fo...
Since laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the standard procedure for the treatment of gallstone disease, several cases have been reported in patients with situs inversus . Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in these patients is technically more demanding and needs reorientation of visuomotor skills to the left upper quad...
Patients with acute, undifferentiated, febrile illness were recruited into a clinic - based surveillance study conducted jointly by the us naval medical research center detachment (nmrcd) and the peruvian and ecuadorian institutes of health (figure 1). Study protocols (nmrcd.2000.0006 [peru] and nmrcd.2001.0002 [ecuado...
Candida albicans subretinal abscess is extremely rare . To our knowledge, only one unilateral case has been reported . Mixed bacterial infection was also suspected based on broad - range real - time polymerase chain reaction . A 64-year - old man being treated with oral corticosteroids for interstitial pneumonia visite...
Although endoscopic resection can be a curative procedure for such lesions 1, it still remains technically challenging because of the high risk of severe adverse events (saes) including delayed perforation 2 . On the other hand, surgical treatment of such lesions often results in extensive resections, causing significa...
Lower urinary tract infections (utis) are very common and have been estimated to occur in at least 60% of women at some stage during their lives (1 - 3). Because of their high prevalence, utis are a public health concern, having an estimated cost of diagnosis and treatment exceeding us $25 billion over a 20-year period...
Batf mice were generated by homologous recombination, deleting exons 1 and 2 of the batf gene on the pure 129svev genetic background . The neomycin resistance cassette was removed from the targeted batf allele in es cells before generation of mice . Nave cd4cd62lcd25 t cells were isolated by cell sorting and activated ...
An ectopic pregnancy occurs outside the uterus and is a relatively common condition among women of childbearing age . The reported incidence of ep in the western world is reported to be in the range of 13% of all pregnancies [1, 2]. Pregnancy - related maternal mortalities in the first trimester account for 4 to 10 per...
To isolate feedback processing, we exploited the retinotopic organization of the visual cortex and blocked informative feedforward activation by occluding visual scene input in a contiguous subregion of the visual field . Using retinotopy, we isolated voxels that responded only to the occluded portion of the scene; in ...
The wild - type strain ed665 (h ade6-m210 leu-32 ura4-d18) and lkh1 cells, phm5l (h lkh1::leu2 ade6-m210 leu-32 ura4-d18), were used in this study . The rich medium was yes, and the selective medium was edinburgh synthetic minimal medium . Cells were grown at 30. after cultivation, the yeast cells in the culture supern...
Typically, these tumors originate from the adrenal gland, and in such cases, they are named pheochromocytomas . However, 510% of these tumors are extra - adrenal and may appear in any area between the neck and the pelvic region along the sympathetic nervous system1 2 . These tumors have been described in the orbit, lar...
It enables the students to integrate and practice what they have learned in anatomical, pharmacological and physiological sciences and manage pain and anxiety in the clinical setting . During clinical skills training of local anesthesia, however, it is clear that learning local anesthetic techniques is a complex and st...
The churg - strauss syndrome (css), also called allergic granulomatosis and angiitis, is a multisystem disorder characterized by allergic rhinitis, asthma, and peripheral blood eosinophilia . The css, however, can affect any organ system, including the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal, and central nervous system...
No amount of statistical analysis of the motor output could reveal the structure of the neural circuits that generated this output . The ability to record informative results from circuits within the cns using microelectrodes was a decade in the future (hoyle and burrows, 1973; pearson and fourtner, 1975). Wilson appli...
We studied 140 patients who were admitted consecutively to our coronary care unit with a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome . Clinical and demographic data were obtained for each patient including blood pressure, lipid profile, and bmi . A casual blood glucose sample was taken on the day of admission, usually on arri...
With the great progress of combinatorial chemistry since the 1990s, large chemical libraries became the major source of modern drug discovery procedures . Over the past 10 years, this effort also stimulated the development of high - throughput screening (hts) techniques . Traditional toxicity testing protocols using an...
Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in the united states as well as many other countries . The degree of adiposity, visceral adiposity in particular, correlates with the extent of obesity - associated comorbid conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease . Moreover, it is believed that abd...
Stem cells can be loosely classified into three broad categories based on their time of isolation during ontogenesis: embryonic, fetal and adult . In this section they will be discussed not in order of their appearance in the organism, but arranged chronologically by date of initial isolation and characterization . The...
Demodex parasites are in demodicidae family, and demodex folliculorum and demodex brevis are members of this family . They are mostly asymptomatic commensals, and increasing number of parasites associated with the higher risk of being pathological.1 d. folliculorum and brevis are obligatory parasites that settle in seb...
We developed a combined diabetes and depression management program by adding a depression care manager to an existing diabetes management team . Project dulce is a culturally competent diabetes case management program that includes peer - led self - management training . We felt that impact could be its sister in depre...
Radical cystectomy is a standard method of treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer (mibc) which has been clinically and/or pathologically assessed as t2t4a, n0nx, m0 stage [1, 2]. However, the frequency of patients diagnosed with non muscle invasive bladder cancer (nmibc) with poor prognostic factors (high risk and...
Upper airway diseases compass acute and chronic conditions . In this study, we focus on recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (rurt), allergic rhinitis (ar), nonallergic rhinitis (nar), and acute and chronic rhinosinusitis (ars / crs) with and without nasal polyps . These disorders are extremely common and prese...
Tumor thrombus in renal cell carcinoma (rcc) has a reported incidence of 410%, with a wide variation in description of level of thrombus, taking into account the diaphragm and the hepatic vein [table 1]. In a recently updated staging system by the american joint committee on cancer (ajcc) and the union internationale c...
This problem is more pronounced in the mandibular arch . Due to less available tissue surface, traditional dental implants require a period of healing and tissue integration in a nonleaded capacity for optimum predictability . The mini dental implant (mdi) system can be immediately loaded and provides ongoing stabiliza...
The complete genomes of 25 metastatic melanomas and patient - matched germline samples were sequenced to approximately 30x and 30x haploid coverage, respectively, on an illumina gaiix sequencer (5 cases), and approximately 65x and 32x haploid coverage, respectively, on an illumina hiseq 2000 sequencer (20 cases) as pai...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and is the third leading cause of cancer - related mortality . Approximately 8090% of hcc patients have underlying liver cirrhosis, which is characterized by tissue fibrosis and the conversion of normal liver architecture into structurally abnorma...
The influenza virus is one of the most common causes of viral respiratory tract infections . In the 2012/2013 epidemic season in poland, there were significantly more known or suspected influenza infections in comparison to previous epidemic seasons . A morbidity peak was observed at the beginning of the second half of...
A sound knowledge of variations of blood vessels is important during operative, diagnostic, and endovascular procedures in the abdomen . Precaval right renal artery (rra), although rare, is an important variant of renal vascular anatomy and so identifying this anomaly is important for the planning of minimally invasive...
Interleukin-13 (il-13) is an immunoregulatory cytokine secreted by t helper 2 lymphocytes . As being involved in the activation of ige production, eosinophil infiltration, mucus hyper secretion, and subepithelial fibrosis, il-13 is a central mediator in the inflammation of airways and in the pathogenesis of asthma and ...
Leukemia cutis (lc) is the infiltration of neoplastic leukocytes or their precursors into the epidermis, the dermis, or the subcutis, resulting in clinically cutaneous lesions . It can occur in any type of leukemia, and is rare in all (13%). The clinic features of lc include papules, nodules, plaques, ulcers, vesicles,...
Pituitary tumour - associated haemorrhage was described for the first time by bailey in 1898, but only in 1950 brougham et al . Introduced the term pituitary apoplexy describing a case series of five patients . According to recent epidemiological studies, pituitary apoplexy has prevalence of about 6.2 cases per 100000 ...
Hospital waste management has been brought into focus in india recently, particularly with the notification of the biomedical waste management and handling rules . The ministry of environment and forests, government of india, notified the bio - medical waste management and handling rules on 27 july 1984 . These rules h...
Oculo facio cardio dental (ofcd) syndrome was first reported by hayward in 1980 and named by obwegeser and gorlin, as a rare genetic syndrome with multisystemic involvement . Rareness can be assumed that till date, as per published literature, only 21 cases have been reported worldwide . This is a x - linked rare conge...
Infection with trypanosoma cruzi (t. cruzi), an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite, causes american trypanosomiasis or chagas disease, a zoonosis endemic to latin america . Approximately 60 million people live in areas with vector - borne transmission risk and the disease causes an estimated 14,000 deaths per ye...
Idiopathic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (ifsgs) recurs after renal transplantation in 20% of cases and the chance of recurrence after a second renal transplant exceeds 80% . The pathogenesis of ifsgs is unknown but there is evidence that the disease is caused by an incompletely characterized circulating glomerula...
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh), a defect of the diaphragm which allows abdominal organs to herniate into the thoracic cavity, is serious and complex condition with high perinatal mortality . Cdh results from failure of the pleuroperitoneal membrane to fuse in the first trimester and impacts on developing fetal l...
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd), a condition defined by troublesome and recurrent heartburn and regurgitation, has long been considered as an important risk factor of several upper gastrointestinal cancers by many investigators.1 - 7 barrett esophagus (be), which is the consequence of long - term reflux of gastr...
Due to the enormous migration as the result of war and disasters during the last decades, health systems in europe are faced with various cultural traditions and both healthcare systems and healthcare professionals are challenged by human rights and values (1). In order to minimize difficulties in providing healthcare ...
Upper urinary tract (uut) urothelial carcinoma (uc) is a relatively rare tumor, accounting for only 5%10% of all renal tumors and 5%6% of urothelial tumors.13 radical nephroureterectomy (rnu) with bladder cuff excision remains the standard treatment of upper - tract urinary urothelial carcinoma.4 although rnu with blad...
The eurotransfer registry (http://clinicaltrials.gov, number nct00378391) design and main results have been previously published [24]. In this registry data on 1,650 consecutive patients with stemi transferred for primary pci in 15 stemi hospital networks from seven european countries from november 2005 to january 2007...
This case presents an adult patient with a medical history of a congenital anal atresia, a partial sacral agenesis, and a surgically treated ectopic anus . After a coincidentally observed presacral mass by mri, due to unexplained constipation later in adulthood, currarino s triad was suspected in this patient . This tr...
Diagnostic cytogenetic testing has undergone a marked evolution since the introduction of chromosome banding techniques in the late 1960s.2 dna - based techniques such as genomic copy number microarrays (cytogenetic microarrays [cmas]) are the latest tools available for clinical use.1 the initial cgh technology was dev...
Primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the breast (necb) is an extremely rare tumor, accounting for 0.27% to 0.5% of histopathologically proven breast cancers . It exhibits morphological features similar to those of neuroendocrine tumors of both the gastrointestinal tract and lung . The standard diagnostic method for necb...
Marginal zone lymphoma (mzl) is a non - hodgkin lymphoma that likely develops from b - lymphocytes in the marginal zone of secondary lymphoid tissue . There are three subtypes of marginal zone b - cell lymphoma (mzl): nodal, extranodal, and splenic marginal zone lymphoma, arising in the lymph node, mucosa, and the sple...
In general, in order to understand and rationalize the physicochemical properties of crystalline solids, an essential prerequisite is to establish the structural properties of the material of interest . As a consequence, the development of new and improved strategies for determining the structural properties of crystal...
Although data from the 2007 national physicians' survey (nps) indicates that most family physicians are satisfied with their clinical practices, studies in several countries have reported that violence in family practice towards physicians is a serious problem [111]. In new zealand, it was reported that on an annual ba...
The first laparoscopic splenectomies (ls) were performed more than a decade ago by delaitre in france (1991), carrol in the usa (1992), and poulin in canada (1992). Many other experiences have been reported since then, and indications for surgery have been expanded to include adults and children with nontraumatic disea...
Early reperfusion, preferably through a percutaneous coronary intervention (pci), is currently the approach recommended by international guidelines for care of patients with stelevation myocardial infarction (stemi). Data from patients treated with primary fibrinolysis show considerable gains with early versus late rep...
Hemiballismus is characterized by high amplitude, violent, flinging and flailing movements confined to one side of body and hemichorea is characterized by involuntary random - appearing irregular movements that are rapid and non - patterned confined to one side of body . The common causes of hemichorea hemiballismus sy...
Cholecystitis is a common condition that is treated with intravenous antibiotics and often eventually requires the patient to undergo a cholecystectomy . However, if treatment is delayed or incomplete, chronic cholecystitis results in complications that include acute pancreatitis, gallbladder empyema, perforation and c...
Lactobacillus species is a known commensal colonizer of the mouth, gastrointestinal and occasionally, the female genitourinary tract . Patients with lactobacillus bacteremia typically present with fever and clinical features localized to the affected tissues, and rarely with sepsis . The diagnosis becomes especially ch...
Many rheumatic diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (ra), psoriatic arthritis (psa) and ankylosing spondylitis (as) are autoimmune conditions, characterized by dysregulation and chronic activation of t - cell responses [1, 2]. The ultimate outcome is overproduction of pro - inflammatory cytokines, including tumor ne...
(lafayette, co). The sequences of the rna duplexes used are as follows: prom - a, 5-gggacuuuccgcuggggactt-3 (sense) and 5-guccccagcggaaaguccctt-3 (antisense); prom - b, 5-ggcccgagagcugcauccggtt-3 (sense) and 5-ccggaugcagcucucgggcctt-3 (antisense); prom - c, 5-gacugcugacaucgagcuutt-3 (sense) and 5-aagctcgatgtcagcagtctt-...
Head trauma sometimes causes inner ear damages presenting symptoms like hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness.1,2) direct injuries to the inner ear, fracturing along the cochlea and vestibule, as a matter of course, bring inner ear symptoms . However, also there are some patients who complaint about these symptoms witho...
Neuropsychiatric geneticists are now focusing considerable attention on the investigation of quantitative human behavioral traits, postulating that such phenotypes could be more straightforward to genetically map than neuropsychiatric disorders . Such syndromes are among the most complex of human traits, a fact that ma...
Allergic reactions to antibiotics are associated with increased rates of morbidity and mortality, as well as increased medical costs (1 - 3). Although many cases of anaphylaxis to penicillin and cephalosporin have been reported, anaphylaxis to tetracycline (4) is less common . Tetracycline is a broad - spectrum polyket...
In mammalian ovaries, it is well known that mitotic division of germ cells completes before birth . Therefore the number of oocytes to be ovulated is limited to the number of primordial follicles that are generated during embryogenesis . In contrast, in many vertebrates with high fecundity, the number of oocytes is tho...
Dpp-4 inhibitors prolong the activity of incretin peptides, glucagon - like peptide-1 (glp-1), and glucose - dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (gip), which stimulate glucose - dependent insulin secretion and inhibit glucagon secretion . Glp-1 action is thought to be the main glucose - lowering effect of dpp-4 inhibi...
Electrostatics plays an important role in accelerating biomolecular reactions, such as diffusional encounters and catalytic processes . Both long - range and short - range electrostatic interactions have been shown to affect the protein protein association rate and have demonstrated important contributions to improving...
Loss and defects of jaw bone can stem from trauma, tooth loss, cancer surgery, congenital anomalies, periodontal disease, and oral - maxillofacial pathologies.1,2 regeneration of bone defects is a long healing process, requiring recruitment and differentiation of new bone cells . Various graft materials are used to res...
Three in ten patients seeking care at the emergency department of a teaching hospital in malaysia were for events associated with drug use.drug therapeutic failure due to medication non - adherence was the most commonly reported adverse drug event . An adverse drug event (ade) is any untoward medical occurrence in a pa...
Major depressive disorder (mdd) is often recurrent, with impact throughout the entire lifespan of the patient . It is associated with substantial general medical and psychiatric co - morbidities (rush, 2007), has a significant effect on the psychosocial well - being of the patient, reduces productivity in the workplace...
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Despite considerable investment in hiv programs in africa over the last decade, little is known about whether funding for hiv care and treatment services has influenced access to and quality of other health services across the continent . Notably, there is little data describing whether hiv funding has improved access ...
The leg is a complex joint with functions of weight - bearing support, stability, and mobility . The osseous structure of the lower leg is composed of the tibia and the fibula . The tibia is most responsible for lower leg functions, while the fibula is a fairly expendable bone . Congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia (...
Case 1 a 27-year - old male patient consulted to us with abdominal pain lasting nearly six hours . His medical history was unremarkable . On physical examination localized tenderness, and guarding were palpated on the left lower quadrant . His laboratory findings were nonspecific (wbc 11.800/mm, hemoglobin 16 gr / dl, ...
Herpes zoster is an acute, cutaneous viral infection caused by the reactivation of varicella - zoster virus (vzv) that is the cause of varicella (1). Reactivation of varicella - zoster virus (vzv) that has remained dormant within dorsal root ganglia, often for decades after the patient s initial exposure to the virus i...
We used data from the framingham heart study (fhs) to study associations between enpp1 variants and quantitative glycemic traits . The fhs is a community - based, multigenerational, longitudinal study of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, including diabetes . Subjects described in the present analysis include...
Graphene, a single - atom thick layer of graphite, was first prepared over 30 years ago by thermal chemical vapor deposition on single - crystal metal substrates. (1) due to the recent revisiting of this system as a new class of carbon nanomaterials having fascinating electronic transport(2) and structural properties, ...
Therefore, weight control strategies play a crucial role in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes . As many glucose - lowering drugs cause weight gain, furthermore, most drugs are metabolized in the liver, and hepatic injury is a very common side - effect of many drugs . The gastrointestinal lipase inhibitor...
The term disorders of sex development (dsd) refers to congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, and phenotypic sex is discordant . Studies have demonstrated higher levels of psychological distress and poorer sexual quality of life in people with dsd compared to unaffected individuals [14], alt...
In this issue of critical care, marin - caballas and coworkers investigate the relationship between cerebral perfusion pressure (cpp) and brain tissue oxygen tension (ptio2). Identifying the optimal cpp following traumatic brain injury (tbi) is as crucial to best care for this vulnerable patient population as determini...
The importance of animal production cannot be overemphasized as the industry plays vital roles as a great source of protein and economic earnings amongst others . As an example, the wad goats play a useful role in the rural economy of west african states, particularly the small - scale and marginal livestock owners . R...
All the patients diagnosed with anti - nmdar encephalitis in the french autoimmune encephalitis and paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome reference center from october 2007 to october 2014 were included in the study . For anti - nmdar encephalitis to be considered, the patients must be positive for immunoglobulin g nmdar ...
Since the introduction of orthotopic ileal neobladder in 1985, the procedure gained wide acceptance and has been practiced by most urologist . The turning point in the technique of orthotopic ileal neobladder was the introduction of the detubularised ileal pouch that ensured low pressure reservoir protecting the upper ...
Despite medical improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases over the decades, tuberculosis is still a major health problem in developing countries, especially with the increasing prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and immunocompromised patients . Because diagnosis of abdom...
The finnish diabetic nephropathy (finndiane) study is an ongoing nationwide prospective multicenter study established to identify risk factors for type 1 diabetes and its complications . The finndiane registry has been described in detail in previous publications (7,8). In brief, between january 1997 and april 2006, 4,...
Genetic polymorphisms are known to have pronounced clinical significance in determining inter - patient variability towards drug response . It is the dominant influencing factor for individual and inter - ethnic variations in drug responses (evans and johnson, 2001). Clopidogrel is one such drug whose pharmacokinetic a...
Stroke unit is considered an integrated well - organized ward in a hospital to provide efficient care for stroke patients . To cover all aspects of recovery, a multidisciplinary approach, by a coordinated team of skilled nurses, physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers and speech therapists...
Mirabilis jalapa l. (nyctaginaceae) is widely used as a traditional folk remedy for treating various ailments including acute arthritis and inflammation . Chemical investigation of m. jalapa has shown the presence of fatty acids, terpenoids, steroids, and d - glucan . Major sterol such as -sitosterol, daucosterol, and ...
Primary hyperparathyroidism (phpt) is a relatively rare disease in adolescents with an incidence of 25 in 100,000 1,2, compared to that of adult with 1 in 5002000 2 . Brown tumors are rare focal osteolytic lesions that occur as an effect of excessive parathyroid hormone (pth) on bone tissue in some patients with phpt, ...
Ileal perforation peritonitis is a common surgical emergency in indian subcontinent and in tropical countries . It is reported to constitute the fifth common cause of abdominal emergencies due to high incidence of enteric fever and tuberculosis in these regions . Despite the availability of modern diagnostic facilities...
Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis is a rare condition that may masquerade as langerhans cell histiocytosis, especially in children . We report a case of multifocal osseous tuberculosis in a 5-year - old female patient admitted to our hospital with a complaint of low back pain but no history of respiratory symptoms or ma...
Hypoparathyroidism is a disorder of calcium, phosphorus, and bone metabolism due to decreased secretion of parathyroid hormone . Hypoparathyroidism secondary to neck surgery was more common than hereditary one, but in recent days with the improvement of surgical skills and techniques the prevalence of surgery induced h...
Clinical hit including electronic health records (ehr), computerized provider order entry, e - prescribing, and personal health records, are fast becoming the focus of quality improvement and health care efficiency initiatives across the country . The institute of medicine (2001) has identified the need for an informat...
States are undertaking new program initiatives to deal with the problem of the uninsured . Merrill (1990) describes these initiatives and argues for the necessity of greater public - private sector cooperation and for policy changes at the federal level . These state efforts raise the question of what the role of the f...
Spinal cord injury (sci) frequently leads to central neuropathic pain that is long - lasting and may cause a road block in the process of rehabilitation . Furthermore, neuropathic pain after sci is usually refractory to conventional analgesic treatments and adequate control of central pain has remained a challenge . Th...
. Low - dose - rate (ldr) and high - dose - rate (hdr) interstitial brachytherapy (isbt), with or without external beam radiotherapy (ebrt), shows a high rate of local control that is nearly equivalent to that of radical surgery [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. We also showed that local control rates using hdr - isbt f...
The disease is enzootic in the southern usa, especially in horses and dogs inhabiting states bordering the gulf of mexico, and has also been reported in africa, asia, australia, latin america and new zealand . Although the disease occurs in several species, bovine pythiosis is rarely diagnosed in endemic areas . The fi...
Estimates of the mass influx of cosmic dust entering the earth's atmosphere vary over a wide range from 5 to 270 tons per day (t d), depending on the method used to make the estimate [plane, 2012]. These dust particles are present in the zodiacal cloud (zc), which is a circumsolar disk of small debris particles produce...
Noncommunicable diseases (ncds) such as diabetes mellitus, stroke, cancer, and cardiovascular disease are a major public health concern in nigeria and sub - saharan africa . Ncds have overtaken communicable diseases as the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the country . The changing disease pattern has been ...