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- Jahan, Yasmin, et al.
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Changing trends in measles vaccination status between 2004 and 2014 among children aged 12-23 months in Bangladesh
- 2020
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Ingår i: Tropical medicine & international health. - : WILEY. - 1360-2276 .- 1365-3156. ; 25:4, s. 475-482
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective To assess the current measles vaccination status in Bangladesh, explain changing differentials in measles vaccination, and determine contexts that may improve measles vaccination coverage. Methods Secondary data analysis of datasets (2004-2014) from the nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys that followed stratified, multi-stage cluster sampling design conducted both in urban and rural contexts. Results 5468 children aged 12-23 months were surveyed, of whom 892 (16%) reported non-compliance to measles vaccine. After simultaneous adjusting for covariates in multivariate logistic regression, children who came from a poor socio-economic background, who had mothers with no formal schooling, who were underweight, of higher birth order (amp;gt;= 4), who had adolescent mothers, who had a history of home delivery and who had no exposure to media were observed to be significantly associated with lack of measles vaccination. Measles vaccination coverage among children of adolescent mothers was consistently low. Despite lack of media exposure, measles vaccination status gradually increased from 26% in 2004 to 33% in 2014. Lack of maternal education was no longer associated with measles vaccination status in 2007, 2011 and 2014. Stunted children continued to be associated with lack of measles immunisation in 2014. Children with higher birth order demonstrated 53% excess risk for not being immunised with measles vaccine. Mothers with no exposure to mass media were two times more likely to have children without measles immunisation as indicated by BDHS 2014 data. Conclusions Our findings will help policy makers formulate strategies for expanding measles vaccination coverage in order to achieve further reduction in disease burden and mortality in Bangladesh.
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- Jahan, Yasmin, et al.
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Disease perception and experiences among rural Bangladeshi hypertensive women : A qualitative approach
- 2020
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Ingår i: HEALTH PROMOTION PERSPECTIVES. - Tabriz, Iran : TABRIZ UNIV MEDICAL SCIENCES & HEALTH SERVICES. - 2228-6497. ; 10:1, s. 66-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Hypertension (HTN) is well established as a leading cause of common serious illnesses worldwide. We carried out this qualitative research to understand perception of and experiences related to HTN among rural Bangladeshi hypertensive women. Methods: A total of 74 female hypertensive participants who were diagnosed as HTN were purposively recruited in a rural community in Mirzapur, Bangladesh. A focus group discussion (FGD) was applied to share their perception and experiences. Transcripts were read in an iterative process, and a thematic analysis was performed. This paper is reported followed by COREQ checklist. Results: Three main themes were generated; (i) Perception of HTN based on experiences, (ii) Knowledge of management of HTN, and (iii) Barriers of management of HTN. Under the themes, seven subthemes were identified. The participants only knew about their high blood pressure (HBP) when they had symptoms, and they applied traditional remedies in the rural context to deal with those symptoms. Even though more than half of participants had relevant knowledge of how to manage HTN, but still there were social-cultural and economic barriers and lack of social infrastructure to access healthcare, existed to practice them. Conclusion: Based on our study reports, health education programs at the household and community level could be a potential starting point for any preventive and containment strategy in rural communities of Bangladesh.
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- Jahan, Yasmin, et al.
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Increasing Awareness and Use of Mobile Health Technology Among Individuals With Hypertension in a Rural Community of Bangladesh: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
- 2020
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Ingår i: JMIR Research Protocols. - : JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC. - 1929-0748. ; 9:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Hypertension remains one of the foremost noncommunicable diseases that most often lead to cardiovascular diseases and its different complications. The prevalence of hypertension in Bangladesh has been increasing. However, there are very limited studies that have evaluated the impact of health education and awareness development in mitigating the burden of hypertension and its complications in Bangladesh. Objective: This study aims to increase awareness, enhance knowledge, and change lifestyle behaviors through health education and the use of mobile health (mHealth) technology among individuals with hypertension living in a rural community of Bangladesh. Methods: A randomized controlled trial is underway in a Mirzapur subdistrict of Bangladesh. This trial compares two groups of individuals with hypertension: The comparison arm receives health education and the intervention arm receives health education and a periodic mobile phone-based text message intervention. The trial duration is 5 months. The primary end point is participants actual behavior changes brought about by increased awareness and knowledge. Results: Enrollment of participants started in August 2018, and collection of follow-up data was completed at the end of July 2019. A total of 420 participants volunteered to participate, and among them, 209 and 211 were randomly allocated to the intervention group and the control group, respectively. Among them, the ratio of males/females was 12.0/88.0 in the intervention group and 16.1/83.9 in the control group. Data cleaning and analyses have been completed and the results have been submitted for publication. Conclusions: Periodic short education using mHealth technology in addition to face-to-face health education may be an effective method for increasing awareness and knowledge about behavioral changes and maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviors.
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- Jahan, Yasmin, et al.
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Self-monitoring urinary salt excretion device can be used for controlling hypertension for developing countries
- 2019
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Ingår i: Clinical hypertension. - : BioMed Central. - 2056-5909. ; 25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Restriction of dietary salt is widely recommended in the management of hypertension, but assessment of individual salt intake has drawn little attention. Monitoring nutritional salt intake through sodium excretion has been popular, because the main route for sodium (Na) excretion is through the urine. Nonetheless, direct measurement of dietary salt intake is time consuming and lacks accuracy. To collect a 24-h urine and measure the content is difficult method for most patients. In this review paper, we would like to explore the usefulness of measuring urinary salt excretion by using a self-monitoring device at home. Measuring daily overnight urine by the self-monitoring device at home will be useful for the management of hypertension suitable for each individual. From the recent increase of processed foods, the term "salt intake" would not accurately be equal to "sodium intake". Devices measuring urinary sodium excretion have been developed and evaluated on their accuracy and correlation with sodium intake. They must be handy, simple and capable of measuring large populations to be useful for monitoring of daily salt intake and to guide salt restriction as well as the long-term effects by dietary salt intake.
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- Eapen, Mathew Suji, et al.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer : Underlying Pathophysiology and New Therapeutic Modalities
- 2018
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Ingår i: Drugs. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0012-6667 .- 1179-1950. ; 78:16, s. 1717-1740
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer are major lung diseases affecting millions worldwide. Both diseases have links to cigarette smoking and exert a considerable societal burden. People suffering from COPD are at higher risk of developing lung cancer than those without, and are more susceptible to poor outcomes after diagnosis and treatment. Lung cancer and COPD are closely associated, possibly sharing common traits such as an underlying genetic predisposition, epithelial and endothelial cell plasticity, dysfunctional inflammatory mechanisms including the deposition of excessive extracellular matrix, angiogenesis, susceptibility to DNA damage and cellular mutagenesis. In fact, COPD could be the driving factor for lung cancer, providing a conducive environment that propagates its evolution. In the early stages of smoking, body defences provide a combative immune/oxidative response and DNA repair mechanisms are likely to subdue these changes to a certain extent; however, in patients with COPD with lung cancer the consequences could be devastating, potentially contributing to slower postoperative recovery after lung resection and increased resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Vital to the development of new-targeted therapies is an in-depth understanding of various molecular mechanisms that are associated with both pathologies. In this comprehensive review, we provide a detailed overview of possible underlying factors that link COPD and lung cancer, and current therapeutic advances from both human and preclinical animal models that can effectively mitigate this unholy relationship.
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- Rahman, Md. Mehedi, et al.
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SMIFD : Novel Social Media Image Forgery Detection Database
- 2019
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Ingår i: 2019 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 18-20 Dec. 2019. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 9781728158426
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Image forgery or manipulation changes the contents of a set of original images to create a new image. Unfortunately, manipulated images become a growing concern with respect to spreading misinformation via image sharing in the social media. Despite the availability of a large number of automatic Image Forgery Detection (IFD) methods, their evaluation in real-world benchmarks seems to be limited due to the lack of diverse datasets. Moreover, the motifs behind the manipulation remains unclear. This research aims to address these issues by proposing a novel social media IFD database, called SMIFD-500, to evaluate the efficiency and generalizability of the IFD methods. The unique property of this dataset is the availability of the technical and social attributes in its ground truth annotations. These will benefit the scientific community to develop efficient methods by exploiting such annotations. Moreover, it provides interesting statistics, which highlights the motifs of image manipulation from social science perspective.
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- Rana, Md. Mehedi Rahman, et al.
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SMIFD-1000 : Social media image forgery detection database
- 2022
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Ingår i: Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation. - : Elsevier. - 2666-2825 .- 2666-2817. ; 41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Image forgery/manipulation is one of the most alarming topics and becomes a major concern about different social media platforms regarding one’s privacy and safety. Therefore, the detection of the manipulated images is of immense interest to the researchers in the recent years. Despite the availability of numerous image forgery detection (IFD) datasets, very few particularly address the actual challenge by collecting the manipulated images from real-world scenario, e.g., collection of images from social media. Consequently, the contextual knowledge behind using the manipulated images remains unachieved. In order to address these issues, we propose an indigenous social media image forgery detection database, naming SMIFD-1000. This dataset provides rich annotations from several aspects: (a) image level: image regions that helps to classify pixel-level information; (b) forgery type: provide rich information about manipulation and (c) target and motif of manipulations: provide contextual rich knowledge about manipulation, which is significantly important from the perspective of social science. Finally, we would examine and benchmark the effectiveness of several publicly available algorithms on this dataset to demonstrate its usefulness. Results show that the dataset is highly challenging and will serve as an important benchmark for the existing and future IFD algorithms.
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