Pakistan

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A clinical trial of oral therapy in a rural cholera-treatment center. 
  • A comprehensive survey of polymorphisms conferring anti-malarial resistance in Plasmodium falciparum across Pakistan. 
  • Acute myocardial infarction: profile and management at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi. 
  • Adiposity and blood pressure in South Asian children and adolescents in Karachi. 
  • Albuminuria and kidney function as prognostic marker of left ventricular mass among South Asians with hypertension. 
  • An alternative strategy for perinatal verbal autopsy coding: single versus multiple coders. 
  • An infant with homozygous hemoglobin D-Iran. 
  • Association of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene G894T polymorphism with essential hypertension in an adult Pakistani Pathan population. 
  • Association of parental blood pressure with retinal microcirculatory abnormalities indicative of endothelial dysfunction in children. 
  • Association study of two interleukin-1 gene loci with essential hypertension in a Pakistani Pathan population. 
  • Awareness and perceptions of electroconvulsive therapy among psychiatric patients: a cross-sectional survey from teaching hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. 
  • Blood pressure, diabetes, and increased dietary salt associated with stroke--results from a community-based study in Pakistan. 
  • Brain research to ameliorate impaired neurodevelopment--home-based intervention trial (BRAIN-HIT). 
  • Child mental health and maternal depression history in Pakistan. 
  • Children in South Asia have higher body mass-adjusted blood pressure levels than white children in the United States: a comparative study. 
  • Community based lifestyle intervention for blood pressure reduction in children and young adults in developing country: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Comparison of Nonblood-Based and Blood-Based Total CV Risk Scores in Global Populations. 
  • Control of blood pressure and risk attenuation: a public health intervention in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka: feasibility trial results. 
  • Coronary artery disease epidemic in Pakistan: more electrocardiographic evidence of ischaemia in women than in men. 
  • Correlations of skin fold thickness and validation of prediction equations using DEXA as the gold standard for estimation of body fat composition in Pakistani children. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of community-based strategies for blood pressure control in a low-income developing country: findings from a cluster-randomized, factorial-controlled trial. 
  • Determinants of Uncontrolled Hypertension in Rural Communities in South Asia-Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. 
  • Diagnostic methods to determine microbiology of postpartum endometritis in South Asia: laboratory methods protocol used in the Postpartum Sepsis Study: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Dietary patterns and their association with hypertension among Pakistani urban adults. 
  • Disproportionately high risk of left ventricular hypertrophy in Indo-Asian women: a call for more studies. 
  • Dose of early intervention treatment during children's first 36 months of life is associated with developmental outcomes: an observational cohort study in three low/low-middle income countries. 
  • Effect of general practitioner education on adherence to antihypertensive drugs: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effect of low vs. high dietary sodium on blood pressure levels in a normotensive Indo-Asian population. 
  • Estimation of GFR in South Asians: a study from the general population in Pakistan. 
  • Ethnic differences and determinants of diabetes and central obesity among South Asians of Pakistan. 
  • Ethnic differences and determinants of proteinuria among South Asian subgroups in Pakistan. 
  • Factors Associated with Water Service Continuity for the Rural Populations of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. 
  • Fast Dissemination of New HIV-1 CRF02/A1 Recombinants in Pakistan. 
  • General practitioners' approach to hypertension in urban Pakistan: disturbing trends in practice. 
  • Genetic and mutational analyses of a large multiethnic Bardet-Biedl cohort reveal a minor involvement of BBS6 and delineate the critical intervals of other loci. 
  • Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci. 
  • Health Education and General Practitioner Training in Hypertension Management: Long-Term Effects on Kidney Function. 
  • Health reform in Pakistan: a call to action. 
  • Heart disease epidemic in Pakistan: women and men at equal risk. 
  • Hepatitis B and C: prevalence and risk factors associated with seropositivity among children in Karachi, Pakistan. 
  • Hereditary brain tumor with a homozygous germline mutation in PMS2: pedigree analysis and prenatal screening in a family with constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) syndrome. 
  • High normal levels of albuminuria and risk of hypertension in Indo-Asian population. 
  • High prevalence of lack of knowledge of symptoms of acute myocardial infarction in Pakistan and its contribution to delayed presentation to the hospital. 
  • Hormone replacement therapy menopause with a better future--a survey of views on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). 
  • Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control in Selected LMIC Communities: Results From the NHLBI/UHG Network of Centers of Excellence for Chronic Diseases. 
  • Knowledge of modifiable risk factors of heart disease among patients with acute myocardial infarction in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross sectional study. 
  • Level and determinants of kidney function in a South Asian population in Pakistan. 
  • Localization of a gene for autosomal recessive distal renal tubular acidosis with normal hearing (rdRTA2) to 7q33-34. 
  • Multicomponent intervention versus usual care for management of hypertension in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Multiple genetic variants explain measurable variance in type 2 diabetes-related traits in Pakistanis. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants requiring resuscitation in developing countries. 
  • Non-communicable diseases and injuries in Pakistan: strategic priorities. 
  • Obesity and its Relation With Diabetes and Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Study Across 4 Geographical Regions. 
  • Oligodontia is caused by mutation in LTBP3, the gene encoding latent TGF-beta binding protein 3. 
  • Patients' experiences on accessing health care services for management of hypertension in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: A qualitative study. 
  • Perinatal outcomes among Asian American and Pacific Islander women. 
  • Poliomyelitis in Pakistan. 
  • Preliminary Effectiveness Study of Coping Power Program for Aggressive Children in Pakistan. 
  • Prevalence and determinants of blood pressure screening in Pakistan. 
  • Prevalence and distribution of human Plasmodium infection in Pakistan. 
  • Prevalence and patterns of antifolate and chloroquine drug resistance markers in Plasmodium vivax across Pakistan. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of smoking in Pakistan: results of the National Health Survey of Pakistan. 
  • Prevalence of microalbuminuria and associated electrocardiographic abnormalities in an Indo-Asian population. 
  • Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their association with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in an Indo-Asian population. 
  • Prevalence, determinants, and management of chronic kidney disease in Karachi, Pakistan - a community based cross-sectional study. 
  • Proteinuria in South Asian children: prevalence and determinants. 
  • Randomized trial of early developmental intervention on outcomes in children after birth asphyxia in developing countries. 
  • Rapidly rising rates of overweight and obesity coupled with persistently high rates of undernutrition among school aged children in an urban Indo-Asian population: authors' response. 
  • Regional variation in identified cancer care needs of early-career oncologists in China, India, and Pakistan. 
  • Rise in childhood obesity with persistently high rates of undernutrition among urban school-aged Indo-Asian children. 
  • Risk factors for non-fatal myocardial infarction in young South Asian adults. 
  • School-based physical activity programme in preadolescent girls (9-11 years): a feasibility trial in Karachi, Pakistan. 
  • Self-rated health in Pakistan: results of a national health survey. 
  • Serum creatinine as marker of kidney function in South Asians: a study of reduced GFR in adults in Pakistan. 
  • Statistical analysis plan for the control of blood pressure and risk attenuation-rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (COBRA-BPS) trial: a cluster randomized trial for a multicomponent intervention versus usual care in hypertensive patients. 
  • The cost-effectiveness of typhoid Vi vaccination programs: calculations for four urban sites in four Asian countries. 
  • The development and evaluation of a community-based clinical diagnosis tool and treatment regimen for postpartum sepsis in Bangladesh and Pakistan. 
  • The effectiveness of the peer delivered Thinking Healthy Plus (THPP+) Programme for maternal depression and child socio-emotional development in Pakistan: study protocol for a three-year cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • The growing burden of chronic kidney disease in Pakistan. 
  • The relationship between responsive caregiving and child outcomes: evidence from direct observations of mother-child dyads in Pakistan. 
  • Use of albumin creatinine ratio and urine albumin concentration as a screening test for albuminuria in an Indo-Asian population. 
  • Women in Pakistan have a greater burden of clinical cardiovascular risk factors than men. 
  • [Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World.