10 articles in this issue
Aidar Atchabarov
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Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed
Background: Hypertension affects an estimated one billion people, worldwide. It is a public health challenge characterized by increased morbidity, mortality, as well as cost to the community and health systems. The goal of this study is to determine the p... see more
Nidhi Goel,Vivek Khandelwal,Kapil Pandya,Atul Kotwal
Background: Substance use among medical fraternity is a well-known phenomenon among both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) medical students. Yet, there have been very few multi-centric studies to estimate the actual burden of this problem in this i... see more
Maral G. Nogayeva,Svetlana A. Tuleutayeva
Urinary tract morbidity has increased by 7% in Kazakhstan between 2007 to 2011. Pregnant women with extragenital pathologies or kidney diseases had the greatest prevalence of morbidity. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (AB) is one of the most important risk facto... see more
Sreejith S. Nair,Pooja Raghunath,Sreekanth S. Nair
Background: Increasing life expectancy around the world, an outstanding achievement of our century, has brought with it new public health challenges. India is the second most populous country in the world, with over 72 million inhabitants above 60 years o... see more
Dilara Orynbassarova
Introduction. Advanced models of delivering primary health care are being implemented in various countries of the world. This is especially true for countries undergoing a healthcare transition in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan, which obtained independe... see more
Karla C. Paz-Salinas,Nicolas Padilla-Raygoza,Silvia C. Delgado-Sandoval,Georgina Olvera-Villanueva,Ma Laura Ruiz-Paloalto
Background: Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that presents a significant burden on health care systems in many countries. With the rise of obesity, the incidence of Type 2 diabetes has also been steadily increasing. A healthy lifestyle and understandi... see more
Govindaraj V. Asokan
Introduction: Zoonotic disease outbreaks have surged in the last two decades. These include severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Hendra virus, Nipah virus, influenza viruses, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, and ebola. One Health ... see more
Balkenzhe Imankulova,Alibek Mereke,Nazira Kamzaeva,Talshyn Ukybassova
Introduction: Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumor in women in Kazakhstan. In the past two decades, endoscopic surgery has played an important role in the development of gynecologic surgery, particularly in the treatment of uterine fibro... see more
Bernd Grosche,Tamara Zhunussova,Kazbek Apsalikov,Ausrele Kesminiene
The nuclear bomb testing conducted at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan is of great importance for today’s radiation protection research, particularly in the area of low dose exposures. This type of radiation is of particular interest due ... see more