Pak J Med Sci
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Exposure to traumatic event like war evokes certain distress full reactions like post traumatic stress disorder. However, stress is not the only out come as sometimes traumatic event leads towards growth as well. Our objective was to study the relationship between post-traumatic stress, hope, perceived social support and post traumatic growth in police officials who actively participated in war on terror and secondly to highlight the role these factors and demographic variables like marital status and family system play in the promotion of post traumatic growth. ⋯ Results of study indicated that PTSD is not the inevitable outcome of combat trauma sometimes trauma leads to post traumatic growth.
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To determine the levels of vitamin B12 in pregnant women and to explore the relationship of vitamin B12 with maternal BMI and gestational diabetes mellitus. ⋯ Low vitamin B12 levels have an association with maternal BMI and gestational diabetes mellitus.
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To investigate the effect of 1% procaine injection, which is used in neural therapy, on shoulder pain and dysfunction in patients diagnosed with supraspinatus tendinopathy. ⋯ This is one of the rare studies showing the effects of neural therapy application on shoulder pain severity and dysfunction in patients with supraspinatus tendinitis who are resistant to medical therapy.
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Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) are commensal skin microbiota but may also cause septicemia, endocarditis, and systemic infections. Staphylococcus lugdunensis, is a member of CNS, but their antibiotic susceptibility test should be evaluated as Staphylococcus aureus not as CNS. We aimed to investigate S.lugdunensis and selected CNS strains by simple biochemical method and determination of their susceptibilities to antibiotics. ⋯ ODC and PYR are cost effective tests and easily applicable for accurate identification of S.lugdunensis, and eliminating of opportinistic pathogens such as S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus, and S. chromogenes from other CNS species in postoperative endophthalmitis and pateints with malignancies. Linezolid was very effective (100%) on four selected CNS species.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health challenge and is endemic in many countries including Saudi Arabia. The disease is a major health concern in the Kingdom because of its dynamic population as resident expatriates are mainly from high TB burdened countries and the mass influx of pilgrims every year in peak seasons for Umrah and Hajj. The objective of the current study was to evaluate pulmonary TB incidence rates and conclude the potential high-risk patients to highlight the burdened regions in Saudi Arabia for the health authorities, which could help to establish policies of infection control as necessary. ⋯ TB control seems to be facing some challenges in several regions of the Kingdom, particularly major cities. National TB Control Program (NTP) needs to continually evaluate official data to spot high risk groups and factors associated with increased incidence. This will help to improve TB control strategies to contain the disease and approaches its eradication.