Wium, Cecilie Eggesbø, Heidi B Ueland, Thor Michelsen, Annika E Torjesen, Peter A Aukrust, Pål Birkeland, Kåre
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Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation
Immigrants from South Asia to Western countries have a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) associated with obesity. We investigated the relationship between diabetes and adipose tissue distribution in a group of younger T2DM subjects from Norway and Pakistan. Eighteen immigrant Pakistani and 21 Norwegian T2DM subjects (age 29-45, 49%...
Behname, Mehdi
El objetivo de este trabajo es investigar la influencia de la inversión extranjera directa (FDI) en el crecimiento económico en el sur de Asia para el período 1977-2009. La prueba de raíz unitaria de Im, Pesaran y Shin (2003) muestra que las variables son estacionarias a nivel y la prueba de Hausman (1978) demuestra que se debería aplicar el modelo...
Behname, Mehdi
El objetivo de este trabajo es investigar la influencia de la inversión extranjera directa (FDI) en el crecimiento económico en el sur de Asia para el período 1977-2009. La prueba de raíz unitaria de Im, Pesaran y Shin (2003) muestra que las variables son estacionarias a nivel y la prueba de Hausman (1978) demuestra que se debería aplicar el modelo...
Hepburn, H. Radloff, Sarah
The geographical distributions of the dwarf honeybees, Apis andreniformis and Apis florea, are defined and mapped. The analysis is based primarily on data in the literature for both species and that on the relevant Quaternary palaeoclimatic data. The dwarf honeybee, A. andreniformis, extends from the eastern foothills of the Himalayas eastward to I...
Hepburn, H. Radloff, Sarah
The geographical distributions of the dwarf honeybees, Apis andreniformis and Apis florea, are defined and mapped. The analysis is based primarily on data in the literature for both species and that on the relevant Quaternary palaeoclimatic data. The dwarf honeybee, A. andreniformis, extends from the eastern foothills of the Himalayas eastward to I...
Christian, P West, K P Jr Khatry, S K Kimbrough-Pradhan, E LeClerq, S C Katz, J Shrestha, S R Dali, S M Sommer, A
Published in
American journal of epidemiology
Night blindness due to vitamin A deficiency is common during pregnancy among women in Nepal. The authors assessed the risk of maternal death during and after a pregnancy with night blindness among women participating in a cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled vitamin A and beta-carotene supplementation trial in Nepal from July 1994 to September 19...
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AIDS weekly
The Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation (FXB), New York, New York, will develop community-based programs in rural Rajasthan, India, to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), with the support of a US$300,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the WHO and Joint UN Programme for HIV/AIDS,...
Nazrul Islam, S K Hossain, K J Ahsan, M
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Public health
The sexual life style, drug habit and socio-demographic status of 253 male hospitalized drug addicts were investigated. This study was conducted during the period June 1997 to July 1998, and each case was selected by the random sampling method. The research instrument was an interviewer-administered questionnaire, the sexual habits, number and qual...
Mujeeb, S A Shahab, S Hyder, A A
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Public health
The prevalence of hepatitis C and other infections is increasing in urban areas of developing countries. Data on such diseases are often limited to facility-based information. However, even this is not available in a usable form to health care providers, health managers and policy makers. We present a simple technique for visually displaying facili...
Nazrul Islam, S K Hossain, K J Ahsan, M
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Public health
The sexual life style, drug habit and socio-demographic status of 253 male hospitalized drug addicts were investigated. This study was conducted during the period June 1997 to July 1998, and each case was selected by the random sampling method. The research instrument was an interviewer-administered questionnaire, the sexual habits, number and qual...
