Lung function and surface electromyography of intercostal muscles in cement mill workersSultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 15:279-87. 2002
..It is concluded that exposure to cement dust not only impairs lung function but also affects costal muscle performance, thus possibly indicating the decreased lung and thoracic compliance...
- Lung function in type 1 Saudi diabetic patients
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 26:1728-33. 2005
..To determine the effects of type 1 diabetes mellitus on lung function and its gravity in relation to the duration of disease...
- Lung function among non-smoking wheat flour mill workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 18:259-64. 2005
..Flour dust occurs across the range of food industries; its exposure may induce acute or chronic respiratory ailments. The objective of the study was to assess the effects of flour dust on the lung function...
- Assessment of respiratory muscles endurance in diabetic patients
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 27:223-6. 2006
..Therefore, we designed the present study to determine the effect imposed by diabetes mellitus on respiratory muscle endurance in Saudi diabetic patients...
- Lung function in type 2 Saudi diabetic patients
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Diabetic Centre, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia edu ksu sa
Saudi Med J 27:338-43. 2006
..To study the effects of type 2 diabetes mellitus on lung function and to determine its severity in relation to duration of disease...
- Lung function in Pakistani wood workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Int J Environ Health Res 16:193-203. 2006
..It is concluded that lung function in wood workers is impaired and stratification of results shows a dose-response effect of years of wood dust exposure on lung function...
- Dose response effect of cement dust on respiratory muscles competence in cement mill workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Hamdard University, Pakistan
Int J Environ Health Res 16:439-47. 2006
..0005) in cement mill workers compared to their matched control. Cement dust impairs the intercostal muscle competence and stratification of results shows a dose-effect of years of exposure in cement mill...
- Lung function in subjects exposed to crude oil spill into sea water
Sultan Ayoub Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, P O Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia
Mar Pollut Bull 56:88-94. 2008
..This impairment was reversible and lung functions parameters were improved when the subjects were withdrawn from the polluted air environment...
- Effect of cement dust exposure on phagocytic function of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in cement mill workers
Sultan Ayoub Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 21:133-9. 2008
..Therefore, the aim of the study was to measure the phagocytic activity of PMNs by assessing chemilumiscence (CL) response in cement mill workers and controls...
- Effect of duration of exposure to polluted air environment on lung function in subjects exposed to crude oil spill into sea water
Sultan Ayoub Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 22:35-41. 2009
..The aim was to investigate the effect of duration of exposure to polluted air environment on lung function in subjects exposed to crude oil spill into sea water...
- Health complaints among subjects involved in oil cleanup operations during oil spillage from a Greek tanker "Tasman Spirit"
Sultan Ayoub Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 22:143-8. 2009
..The study aimed at investigating health complaints among subjects involved in oil cleanup operations during a spillage from a Greek oil tanker "Tasman Spirit"...
- Transmission of hepatitis-B virus through salivary blood group antigens in saliva
Sultan Ayoub Meo
Department of Medicine, King Khalid University Hopital, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 20:444-8. 2010
..To determine an association between transmission of hepatitis B virus and secretor and non-secretor status of salivary blood group antigens...
- Effects of mobile phone radiation on serum testosterone in Wistar albino rats
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 31:869-73. 2010
..To investigate the effects of electromagnetic field radiation generated by mobile phones on serum testosterone levels in Wistar albino rats...
- Mobile phone related-hazards and subjective hearing and vision symptoms in the Saudi population
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 18:53-7. 2005
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- Do mobile phones cause hearing and vision complaints? A preliminary report
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 26:882-3. 2005
- Congenital absence of gallbladder
Sultan Ayoub Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 15:304-5. 2005
..This case is of a 20-year-old student, presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. The absence of the gallbladder was diagnosed on ultrasonography and computerized tomography (CT) scan of abdomen...
- Hematological changes in cement mill workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan
Saudi Med J 23:1386-9. 2002
..The idea was to identify a simple, readily available and cost effective screening test that could help in identifying the presence of disease, its severity, or both in cement mill workers potentially related to their work place...
- Chest radiological findings in Pakistani cement mill workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan
Saudi Med J 24:287-90. 2003
..Therefore, the aim of this study was to perform chest radiology to determine the occupational hazards of cement dust on the lungs of cement mill workers...
- Spirometric evaluation of lung function (maximal voluntary ventilation) in welding workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 24:656-9. 2003
..Additional objective was to reduce the potential health risks of welding workers by providing them with information concerning the hazards of welding fumes...
- Health hazards of welding fumes
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 24:1176-82. 2003
..Therefore, the aim of this review is to gather the potential toxic effects of welding fumes documented by individual efforts and provide informations to community on hazards of welding...
- Dose responses of years of exposure on lung functions in flour mill workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
J Occup Health 46:187-91. 2004
..This group of flour mill workers had occupationally related pulmonary function impairment and stratification of results showed a dose response of years of exposure in flour mills on lung function...
- Congenital absence of gall bladder in a young Saudi medical student. Clinical, laboratory findings and analysis of body composition
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 25:1495-6. 2004
- Effects of duration of exposure to wood dust on peak expiratory flow rate among workers in small scale wood industries
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University Riyadh, Riyadh, KSA
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 17:451-5. 2004
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- Hematological findings in male x-ray technicians
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology 29, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 25:852-6. 2004
..The aim was to identify the affect of x-ray radiation on blood cell counts in x-ray technicians...
- Health hazards of cement dust
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology 29, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 25:1153-9. 2004
..Therefore, the aim of this review is to gather the potential toxic effects of cement dust and to minimize the health risks in cement mill workers by providing them with information regarding the hazards of cement dust...
- Lung function in Pakistani welding workers
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan
J Occup Environ Med 45:1068-73. 2003
..This effect primarily shows an obstructive pattern of airways disease. Preventive measures in developing countries have to be adopted to avert long-term lung damage in welders...
- Hypospermatogenesis and spermatozoa maturation arrest in rats induced by mobile phone radiation
Sultan Ayoub Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 21:262-5. 2011
..To determine the morphological changes induced by mobile phone radiation in the testis of Wistar albino rats...
- Nickel-induced allergy and contact dermatitis: does it induce autoimmunity and cutaneous sclerosis? An experimental study in Brown Norway rats
Sultan M Al-Mogairen
Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Division, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Rheumatol Int 30:1159-64. 2010
..More prolonged duration of exposure is probably associated with greater risk. This is the first study showing the potential risk of nickel in triggering the development of cutaneous sclerosis in susceptible hosts...
- Estrogen receptors in human thyroid gland. An immunohistochemical study
Shoukat A Arain
Department of Pathology, Ziauddin Medical University Hospital, North Nazimabad, Karachi, Pakistan
Saudi Med J 24:174-8. 2003
..Seventeen beta-estradiol, the major estrogen in the body acts via estrogen receptors (ER) present in the nucleus of the cell. The aim of the study is to determine the ER status in the thyroid gland tissues...
- Association of mobile phone radiation with fatigue, headache, dizziness, tension and sleep disturbance in Saudi population
Thamir Al-Khlaiwi
Department of Physiology 29, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 25:732-6. 2004
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- Hazards of X-ray radiation on the quantitative and phagocytic functions of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in X-ray technicians
Sultan A Meo
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
J Occup Health 48:88-92. 2006
..Exposure to X-ray radiation decreases the physiological functions of PMN as measured by decreasing chemiluminescence response even at low levels of exposure...
