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Comments about "The hamate facet of the lunate: a radiographic study in an Arab population from Bahrain".
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Nursing education in the Arabian Gulf: the Bahrain model.
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The seroprevalence of syphilis, toxoplasmosis and hepatitis B in patients in Bahrain infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
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Child abuse: Bahrain's experience.
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The spectrum of glomerular diseases in the kingdom of bahrain: an epidemiological study based on renal biopsy interpretation.
Glomerular diseases continue to be the leading cause of end-stage renal disease globally. Hence it is important to recognize the glomerular disease pattern in any given geographical area to understand the pathobiology in the region as well as the incidence and progression of the disorder. A total of 498 renal biopsies were performed on patients with proteinuria, hematuria, and mild to moderate renal impairment during a period of 13 years (between January 1990 and December 2002) at a tertiary care hospital. Primary glomerular disease accounted for two-thirds of the glomerular diseases, which was 44.8% of all renal biopsies. The most common histological lesion was minimal change disease (30%). Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was the second most common lesion (23.8%) followed by membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (14.3%). Secondary glomerular disease included 33.6% of glomerular diseases with 22.7% with lupus nephritis as the commonest lesion (38.9%) followed by diabetic nephropathy (31.9%) and hypertension (20.4%). Tubulointerstitial diseases accounted for 13.1% of all renal biopsies, whereas transplant diseases were noted in 12.2%. The miscellaneous group including inadequate biopsies, which constituted 7.2% of all the tissues. The results of this analysis were compared with surveys from other parts of the world.
Gynaecomastia among children in Bahrain.
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Use of immunoblot assay to define serum antibody patterns associated with Helicobacter pylori infection from Bahrain.
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Epidemics of aseptic meningitis due to enteroviruses following national immunization days in Bahrain.
We report two successive epidemics of aseptic meningitis due to enteroviruses (EV) observed after national immunization days against polio. Meningitis due to echovirus 30 occurred from July 1995 to the end of January 1996, mostly among children aged 0-12 years (95.1% of cases), and meningitis due to echovirus 4 occurred from May 1996 to the end of September 1996 in the same age group. There were 286 and 169 cases, respectively. Specimens from several representative cases were sent to the WHO Collaborating Center for Virus Reference and Research Laboratory for serological testing and virus detection, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) studies. Using those tests, evidence of echovirus 30 infection was found in 44% of the children who were sampled during the first epidemic and 45.5% during the second. During echovirus 30 and echovirus 4 epidemics, a similar decline in the age-specific attack rate from 19.1/10,000 and 10.1/10,000 population aged 12 years to 2.4/10,000 and 3.6/10,000 population aged 13 years was observed, respectively.
Anthropometry of adolescent girls in Bahrain, including body fat distribution.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: To determine anthropometric measurements of adolescent Bahraini girls, including obesity and fat composition. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: A cross-sectional sample of 584 Bahraini girls aged 12-19 years, were selected from schools using multistage stratified sampling procedure. Fifteen anthropometric measurements were taken (weight, height, circumferences for upper arm, upper forearm, upper chest, chest, waist, hip, thigh and medial calf, triceps, biceps, subscapular and suprailiac). Body mass index (BMI), waist/hip ratio, sum of skinfold thickness and % body fat were also computed. MAIN OUTCOMES AND RESULTS: The findings revealed a significant increase in all anthropometric measurements with increase in age. The mean weights for girls was higher than those reported in 1986 for the same age group, but no difference was observed in the mean heights, indicating a trend toward overweight. Using the 85th and 95th centiles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I (NHANESI) BMI distribution to define respectively overweight and obesity, the prevalence of overweight was 38.5% and of obesity was 6.3%. The means for BMI, waist/hip ratio, sum of skinfold thickness and % body fat were higher than those reported in many developed and developing countries. CONCLUSIONS: Bahraini adolescent girls have a higher proportion of body fat than their counterparts in many Western countries. This may contribute to some chronic diseases in adulthood. An intervention programme, therefore, is urgently needed to reduce overweight and obesity at childhood and adolescent stages.
Lifestyle patterns in smokers and non-smokers in the state of Bahrain.
The purpose of the study was to compare Bahraini adult male and female smokers with former smokers and non-smokers with respect to several aspects of lifestyle. A simplified general method for cluster-sample survey was used to select 516 subjects aged 30-79 years. Study subjects were interviewed using a structured pre-tested questionnaire. The prevalence of smoking was 32.1 and 20.7% among men and women, respectively. A statistically significant association (p < 0.001) was observed with respect to smoking status and educational level in both sexes. Smoking was associated with less exercise and more television watching. The findings suggest that smokers should be counseled about their unhealthy lifestyle habits in addition to quitting smoking.
Prevalence of Bartonella henselae antibodies among human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients from Bahrain.
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Bahrain: quality improvement in primary health care.
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The problem of gastroenteritis in infancy and childhood in Bahrain. Its relationship to malnutrition and anaemia.
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Food habits in Bahrain: infants' feeding habits.
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Intestinal parasitic infections among school children in Bahrain.
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Sickle cell disease in Bahrain: coexistence and interaction with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
The object was to determine the frequency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in Bahraini individuals with HbS as compared to those without HbS. Haemolysates of erythrocytes from 310 Bahraini individuals attending Health Centres were obtained, electrophoresed on cellulose acetate at PH 8.2-8.6, and stained for G6PD. HbS was present in 125 individuals (study group) and in 185 only HbA was present (control group). G6PD deficiency (very low to undetectable) was identified in 59 samples (47 per cent) of the study group and 35 (19 per cent) of the control group. A positive correlation between G6PD deficiency and HbS is present in Bahraini individuals tested. This is similar to the situation in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. We speculate that the observation could be explained on the basis of historic endemicity of Falciparum malaria in both regions on the East coast of the Saudi Peninsula.
Cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator gene mutations in Bahrain.
A genotypic study was undertaken to characterize the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator gene mutations (CFTR) in the Bahraini cystic fibrosis (CF) population using a polymerase chain reaction-based direct gene test to search for 15 common CF mutations amongst Arabs. During the period October 2000 to May 2001, 19 patients (12 males and seven females; aged at time of study between 4 months and 14 years with a mean age of 5.4 +/- 4.3 years) from 13 families were recruited in the study. Patients were diagnosed as having CF, based on a typical clinical picture and sweat chloride levels > 60 mmol/l and were screened for CFTR mutations. The rate of consanguinity among the families was 77 per cent. Eight mutations were detected in 21 of the 26 alleles examined. The overall detection rate was approximately 81 per cent. The allele frequency of the eight mutations was estimated to be approximately 73 per cent. There was no specific phenotypic pattern that correlated with a specific genotype. All families except two were of Bahraini origin. Of the eight mutations detected, four were common among Bahrainis (2043delG > 548A --> T > 4041C --> G = deltaF508, in order of decreasing frequency), accounting for 66 per cent of the Bahraini CF alleles. However, we also detected four different heterozygous mutations, namely: 1161delC, 1756G -->T, 3120 + 1G --> A, and 3661A --> T, accounting for 16 per cent of the Bahraini CF alleles.