Background:Prescribing patterns can greatly have a negative impact on patient care outcomes if not underpinned by use of ideal standards and evidence-based medicine. The overall aim of this clinical research was to determine the antibiotic prescribing patterns among physicians and compare...
Download PDF ↓The term, “heavy metals” (HMs) refers to a group of metals with atomic density greater than 4g/cm3. HM contamination is a major environmental problem worldwide today, especially in growing cities of developing countries mainly due to pollution. High levels of HMs can cause health problems in an...
Context - A number of biomarkers are implicated in the pathophysiology of hypertension. Low adiponectin levels have been associated with hypertension and this might be due to its effects on endothelial nitric oxide synthase levels. Aims - In this study we aimed to assess plasma adiponectin and...
Download PDF ↓Background Discharge is a period of transition from hospital to home that involves a transfer in responsibility from the inpatient health care providers or hospitalists to the patient and primary caregivers. The study was aimed at assessing Caregivers’ Knowledge about medications and medical...
Download PDF ↓thrombogenic marker d-dimer are strongly associated with a higher mortality risk in patients with HIV infection. Aims – The aim of the study was to determine if D-Dimer levels in conjunction with IL 6 levels, as markers of predisposition to thrombosis, are higher in HIV positive than in HIV...
Download PDF ↓Background: Malaria is a major public health problem and principal cause of morbidity and mortality in Zambia. We investigated key factors that may be associated with the utilisation of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) as a malaria prevention strategy among women of reproductive age (15–49) in...
Download PDF ↓Context— The transcriptional regulation of lipogenesis is a highly coordinated process that is controlled by insulin. Fatty acid synthase (FASN) plays a central role in de novo lipogenesis by converting acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA into the final end product, palmitate, which may subsequently be...
Download PDF ↓Background: Medication errors can occur at any of the five steps of the medication use process: prescribing, transcription, dispensing, administration and monitoring. AIM: This study aimed to ascertain the incidence and types of prescribing and administration errors. METHODS: The study was a...
Download PDF ↓INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis is recognised as one the leading causes of severe sepsis among HIV positive patients. Most patients with tuberculosis mycobacteraemia have advanced HIV disease with CD4 counts less than 100cells/ul and many do not present with the classical signs of tuberculosis....
Download PDF ↓Background and aim: Carotid femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is considered as the gold standard for directly estimating central arterial stiffness. Furthermore, the simultaneous measurement of central blood pressure (CBP) with cfPWV is augmentative. This is because the two are strong and...