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  • Epidemiology of paediatric constipation in Indonesia and its association with exposure to stressful life events 
    Oswari, H.; Alatas, F.S.; Hegar, B.; Cheng, W.; Pramadyani, A.; Benninga, M.A.; Rajindrajith, S. (Biomed Central, 2018)
    BACKGROUND: We aimed to study the epidemiology and risk factors, including exposure to emotional stress, for constipation in Indonesian children and adolescents of 10–17 year age group. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey ...
  • The epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths in Bihar state, India. 
    Greenland, K.; Dixon, R.; Khan, S. A.; Gunawardena, K.; Kihara, J. H.; Smith, J. L.; Drake, L.; Makkar, P.; Raman, S.; Singh, S.; Kumar, S. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) infect over a billion individuals worldwide. In India, 241 million children are estimated to need deworming to avert the negative consequences STH infections can have on child ...
  • Epidermal naevus syndrome: 2 cases with a rare triad 
    Wanigasinghe, J.; Rodrigo, R.; Dissanayake, P. (Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, 2013)
    No Abstract Available
  • Epigenome-wide association of DNA methylation markers in peripheral blood from Indian Asians and Europeans with incident type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control study 
    Chambers, J.C.; Loh, M.; Lehne, B.; Drong, A.; Kriebel, J.; Motta, V.; Wahl, S.; Elliott., H.R; Rota, F.; Scott, W.R.; Zhang, W.; Tan, S.T.; Campanella, G.; Chadeau-Hyam, M.; Yengo, L.; Richmond, R.C.; Adamowicz-Brice, M.; Afzal, U.; Bozaoglu, K.; Mok, Z.Y.; Ng, H.K.; Pattou, F.; Prokisch, H.; Rozario, M.A.; Tarantini, L.; Abbott, J.; Ala-Korpela, M.; Albetti, B.; Ammerpohl, O.; Bertazzi, P.A.; Blancher, C.; Caiazzo, R.; Danesh, J.; Gaunt, T.R.; de Lusignan, S.; Gieger, C.; Illig, T.; Jha, S.; Jones, S.; Jowett, J.; Kangas, A.J.; Kasturiratne, A.; Kato, N.; Kotea, N.; Kowlessur, S.; Pitkäniemi, J.; Punjabi, P.; Saleheen, D.; Schafmayer, C.; Soininen, P.; Tai, E.S.; Thorand, B.; Tuomilehto, J.; Wickremasinghe, A.R.; Kyrtopoulos, S.A.; Aitman, T.J.; Herder, C.; Hampe, J.; Cauchi, S.; Relton, C.L.; Froguel, P.; Soong, R.; Vineis, P.; Jarvelin, M.R.; Scott, J.; Grallert, H.; Bollati, V.; Elliott, P.; McCarthy, M.I.; Kooner, J.S. J (The Lancet, Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: Indian Asians, who make up a quarter of the world's population, are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether DNA methylation is associated with future type 2 diabetes incidence in ...
  • Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity 
    Whal, S.; Drong, A.; Lehne, B.; Loh, M.; Scott, W.R.; Kunze, S.; Tsai, P.C.; Ried, J.S.; Zhang, W.; Yang, Y.; Tan, S.; Fiorito, G.; Franke, L.; Guarrera, S.; Kasela, S.; Kriebel, J.; Richmond, R.C.; Adamo, M.; Afzal, U.; Ala-Korpela, M.; Albeetti, B.; Ammerpohl, O.; Apperley, J.F.; Beekman, M.; Bertazzi, P.A.; Black, S.L.; Blancher, C.; Bonder, M.J.; Brosch, M.; Carstensen-Kirberg, M.; de Craen, A.J.; de Lusignan, S.; Dehghan, A.; Elkalaawy, M.; Fischer, K.; Franco, O.H.; Gaunt, T.R.; Hampe, J.; Hashemi, M.; Isaacs, A.; Jenkinson, A.; Jha, S.; Kato, N.; Krogh, V.; Laffan, M.; Meisinger, C.; Meitinger, T.; Mok, Z.Y.; Motta, V.; Ng, H.K.; Nikolakopoulou, Z.; Nteliopoulos, G.; Panico, S.; Pervjakova, N.; Prokisch, H.; Rathmann, W.; Roden, M.; Rota, F.; Rozario, M.A.; Sandling, J.K.; Schafmayer, C.; Schramm, K.; Siebert, R.; Slagboom, P.E.; Soininen, P.; Stolk, L.; Strauch, K.; Tai, E.S.; Tarantini, L.; Thorand, B.; Tigchelaar, E.F.; Tumino, R.; Uitterlinden, A.G.; van Duijn, C.; van Meurs, J.B.; Vineis, P.; Wickremasinghe, A.R.; Wijmenga, C.; Yang, T.P.; Yuan, W.; Zhernakova, A.; Batterham, R.L.; Smith, G.D.; Deloukas, P.; Heijmans, B.T.; Herder, C.; Hofman, A.; Lindgren, C.M.; Milani, L.; van der Harst, P.; Peters, A.; Illig, T.; Relton, C.L.; Waldenberger, M.; Järvelin, M.R.; Bollati, V.; Soong, R.; Spector, T.D.; Scott, J.; McCarthy, M.I.; Elliott, P.; Bell, J.T.; Matullo, G.; Gieger, C.; Kooner, J.S.; Grallert, H.; Chambers, J.C. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
    Approximately 1.5 billion people worldwide are overweight or affected by obesity, and are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related metabolic and inflammatory disturbances. Although the ...
  • Erectile dysfunction among male patients diagnosed with schizophrenia being treated with antipsychotic medication, and the impact on quality of life 
    Rowel, W. W. J. S. M .; Liyange, U. L. N. S.; Hewawitharana, U. H.; Dayabandara, M.; Rodrigo, A. (Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, 2018)
    INTRODUCTION:Erectile dysfunction is a distressing side effect of antipsychotics, which leads to poor medication compliance and poor quality of life. There is a scarcity of studies on antipsychotic-induced sexual dysfunction ...
  • Erythema induratum (of Bazin) in a patient with endometrial tuberculosis 
    de Silva, H.J.; Goonetilleke, A.K.; de Silva, N.R.; Amarasekera, L.R.; Jayawickrama, U.S. (BMJ Publishing Group, 1988)
    We report erythema induratum in a patient who was found to have active endometrial tuberculosis. This case report emphasizes the importance of an exhaustive search for active tuberculosis in patients with erythema induratum, ...
  • Erythrocyte antioxidant enzymes in patients with cataract 
    Chandrasena, L.G.; Chackrewarthy, S.; Perera, P.T.; de Silva, D. (Institute for Clinical Science., 2006)
    The pathogenesis of cataract has been found to be influenced by a number of factors including oxidative stress. Catalase, glutathione peroxidase (GPX), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) are some of the antioxidant enzymes ...
  • Esophageal motility, vagal function and gastroesophageal reflux in a cohort of adult asthmatics 
    Amarasiri, D.L.; Pathmeswaran, A.; Dassanayake, A.S.; de Silva, A.P.; Ranasinha, C.D.; de Silva, H.J. (BioMed Central, 2012)
    BACKGROUND: Asthmatics are known to have esophageal hypomotility. Vagal hypofunction and prolonged intra-esophageal acidification cause esophageal hypomotility. The contribution of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) and vagal ...
  • Established, emerging and potential parasitic zoonoses in Sri Lanka 
    Abeyewickreme, W.; de Wijesundara, M.; Weerasooriya, M.V.; Naotunne, T.de S.; de Silva, N.R.; Ismail, M.M.; Dissanaike, A.S. (Elsevier, 1998)
    No abstract available
  • Establishing the sri lanka clinical trials registry 
    Ranawaka, U.K.; Goonaratna, C. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
    Recognizing the need for a national body for trial registration, the Sri Lanka Medical Association took up the challenge of setting up the Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry. The registry was established in November 2006, ...
  • Establishment of a colony of Phlebotomus argentipes under laboratory conditions and morphometric variation between wild-caught and laboratory-reared populations. 
    Wijerathna, T.; Gunathilaka, N.; Gunawardena, K. (Hindawi Pub. Corp., 2020)
    ABSTRACT:The field-based studies on sand flies are not adequate to uncover information required for the control of the leishmaniasis through reduction of vector populations. Therefore, establishment and maintenance of ...
  • The establishment of a population-specific reference value for the ruler drop test for the clinical assessment of reaction time 
    Rajapaksha, S.; Kitulwatte, I.; Senarathne, U.; Edirisinghe, A.; Perera, P. (Elsevier, 2023)
    BACKGROUND: Reaction time (RT) is the interval between a stimulus and an appropriate voluntary response in an individual. Alcohol is known to result in delayed RT. In Sri Lanka, an alleged drunken driver is legally subjected ...
  • Estimates of disease burden due to land-snake bite in Sri Lankan hospitals 
    Kasturiratne, A.; Pathmeswaran, A.; Fonseka, M.M.D.; Lalloo, D.G.; Brooker, S.; de Silva, H.J. (SEAMEO Regional Tropical Medicine and Public Health Project, 2005)
    Snake bite is a common cause of hospital admission in Sri Lanka. Despite this, there have been no countrywide studies or national estimates of disease burden due to snake bites in Sri Lankan hospitals. We assessed the ...
  • Estimating dengue vector abundance in the wet and dry season: implications for targeted vector control in urban and peri-urban Asia 
    Wai, K.T.; Arunachalam, N.; Tana, S.; Espino, F.; Kittayapong, P.; Abeyewickreme, W.; Hapangama, D.; Tyagi, B.K.; Htun, P.T.; Koyadun, S.; Kroeger, A.; Sommerfeld, J.; Petzold, M. (Maney Publishing, 2012)
    BACKGROUND: Research has shown that the classical Stegomyia indices (or "larval indices") of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti reflect the absence or presence of the vector but do not provide accurate measures of adult ...
  • Estimating the government health-care costs of treating pesticide poisoned and pesticide self-poisoned patients in Sri Lanka. 
    Ahrensberg, H.; Madsen, L.B.; Pearson, M.; Weerasinghe, M.; Eddleston, M.; Jayamanne, S.; Hansen, K.S.; Ariyarathna, V.; Rajapaksha, S.; Konradsen, F. (PA : Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: Pesticide self-poisoning as a method of suicide is a major global health problem. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the cost and per patient cost of treating pesticide self-poisoning at different hospital levels in a Sri ...
  • Estimating the true accuracy of diagnostic tests for dengue infection using bayesian latent class models 
    Pan-ngum, W.; Blacksell, S.D.; Lubell, Y.; Pukrittayakamee, S.; Bailey, M.S.; de Silva, H.J.; Lalloo, D.G.; Day, N.P.; White, L.J.; Limmathurotsakul, D. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
    BACKGROUND: Accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for dengue infection has been repeatedly estimated by comparing those tests with reference assays. We hypothesized that those estimates might be inaccurate if the accuracy of ...
  • Estimation of sex from the osteometric measurements of the femur in a contemporary Sri Lankan population 
    Ranaweera, L.; Cabral, E.; Dissanayake, D.M.P.V.; Lakshan, W.S.V. (Chilean Society of Anatomy, Argentine Association of Anatomy and Panamerican Association of Anatomy., 2022)
    SUMMARY: Sex estimation from human skeletal remains is of vital importance in the buildup of a biological profile of an individual in medico-legal and bioarchaeological studies. The present study is focused on the estimation ...
  • Ethical dilemmas in forensic medical practice 
    Kitulwatte, I.D.G.; Edirisinghe, P.A.S. (Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, 2019)
    ABSTRACT: Forensic practitioners need to ensure that basic medical obligations towards individual patients, judiciary and the public are met while balancing their responsibilities to these parties. Unlike in clinical ...
  • Ethics in Haematology (Editorial) 
    Williams, S. (The Sri Lanka College of Haematologists, 2019)
    No abstract available

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