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| Saeed AkhtarSummaryAffiliation: Kuwait University Country: Kuwait Publications
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Epidemiologic study of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in male volunteer blood donors in Karachi, PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait
BMC Gastroenterol 5:26. 2005....
Areca nut chewing and esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma risk in Asians: a meta-analysis of case-control studiesSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
Cancer Causes Control 24:257-65. 2013..This meta-anlaysis quantitatively assessed an overall independent association between areca nut chewing and esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma in Asians...- Stochastic modelling of intra-household transmission of hepatitis C virus: evidence for substantial non-sexual infectionSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya 90805, Kuwait
J Infect 66:179-83. 2013..To simulate the probability of HCV transmission from an HCV seropositive index patient to susceptible household contacts through non-sexual exposures... - Chewing areca nut, betel quid, oral snuff, cigarette smoking and the risk of oesophageal squamous-cell carcinoma in South Asians: a multicentre case-control studySaeed Akhtar
Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait
Eur J Cancer 48:655-61. 2012..2). Public awareness to curtail the addiction to these substances may result in a substantial reduction in the incidence of oesophageal squamous-cell carcinoma and related mortality in this and similar settings... - Prevalence and determinants of asthma in adult male leather tannery workers in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross sectional studyKhurram Shahzad
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
BMC Public Health 6:292. 2006..This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and to identify some risk factors of adult asthma in male leather tannery workers in Karachi, Pakistan... - Correlates of cigarette smoking among male college students in Karachi, PakistanShafquat Rozi
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, PO Box 3500, Karachi, Pakistan
BMC Public Health 7:312. 2007..Therefore, it is important to understand the factors that might influence their smoking habit. Our study aims to assess the influence of factors that encourage college students to smoke cigarettes... - An autoregressive integrated moving average model for short-term prediction of hepatitis C virus seropositivity among male volunteer blood donors in Karachi, PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
World J Gastroenterol 15:1607-12. 2009..To identify the stochastic autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model for short term forecasting of hepatitis C virus (HCV) seropositivity among volunteer blood donors in Karachi, Pakistan... 
Multilevel modeling of intra-household spread of hepatitis C virus infection, Karachi, PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:446-9. 2007..High household intercept variances in different analyses revealed that at there are still unrecognized nonsexual modes of HCV transmission at the household level that need further research...- Hyperendemic pulmonary tuberculosis in peri-urban areas of Karachi, PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
BMC Public Health 7:70. 2007..This study assessed the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis through active case detection and evaluated predictors of pulmonary tuberculosis among residents of two peri-urban neighbourhoods of Karachi, Pakistan... - Seasonality in pulmonary tuberculosis among migrant workers entering KuwaitSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait
BMC Infect Dis 8:3. 2008..This study examined the seasonal pattern in TB diagnosis among migrant workers from developing countries entering Kuwait... - Spectral analysis of HIV seropositivity among migrant workers entering KuwaitSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait
BMC Infect Dis 8:37. 2008.... - Cohort analysis of directly observed treatment outcomes for tuberculosis patients in urban PakistanS Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 15:90-6. 2011.... - Temporal epidemiology of microfilaraemia among migrant workers entering KuwaitSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait
BMC Res Notes 1:8. 2008.... - Multilevel modeling of household contextual determinants of tuberculin skin test positivity among contacts of infectious tuberculosis patients, Umerkot, PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, Kuwait University, Safat 13110, Kuwait
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:351-8. 2009..Thus, both individual-level and household-level characteristics need to be taken into account while prioritizing contacts for investigations to improve TB control and prevention in resource-constrained countries such as Pakistan... - Nonlinear pattern of pulmonary tuberculosis among migrants at entry in Kuwait: 1997-2006Saeed Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait
BMC Public Health 8:264. 2008.... - A chain-binomial model for intra-household spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a low socio-economic setting in PakistanS Akhtar
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
Epidemiol Infect 135:27-33. 2007..tuberculosis-exposed household contacts, and the assessment of household environmental risks to devise and implement an educational programme may help reduce the TB burden in this and similar settings... - Population beliefs about the efficacy of injections in Pakistan's Sindh provinceNaveed Z Janjua
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Public Health 120:824-33. 2006..We conducted this study to identify factors associated with receiving at least one injection during the past 3 months in an urban and a rural area in the Sindh province of Pakistan... - Factors associated with heroin addiction among male adults in Lahore, PakistanFaran Emmanuel
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
J Psychoactive Drugs 35:219-26. 2003..mOR = 2.4, 95% CI, 1.3-4.8). It is recommended that public health strategies be formulated based on various facets of the problem revealed by this and previous research to prevent illicit drug use... - Prevalence of and risk factors associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in prisoners, North West Frontier Province, PakistanHamid Hussain
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Int J Epidemiol 32:794-9. 2003.... - Intra-household clustering of hepatitis C virus infection in Karachi, PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 98:535-9. 2004..44, P=0.032). The results showed that non-sexual household exposure may play a role in efficient HCV spread to household contacts of HCV-infected persons and needs further evaluation... - Injection use in two districts of Pakistan: implications for disease preventionNaveed Zafar Janjua
Department of Com, munity Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Int J Qual Health Care 17:401-8. 2005..To estimate the annual number of injections per person in Sindh province of Pakistan and to describe their distribution with regard to prescribers, settings, and safety... - Factors influencing Hepatitis C virus sero-prevalence among blood donors in north west PakistanMuhammad Naeem Khattak
Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Community Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
J Public Health Policy 29:207-25. 2008..Public awareness programs should target the identified risk factors to prevent HCV transmission. We highlight the weakness of the health care system for blood donation, as it does not offer any record management for donors... - Case-control study of risk factors associated with hepatitis C virus infection among pregnant women in hospitals of Karachi-PakistanUzma R Khan
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Trop Med Int Health 13:754-61. 2008..To identify risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among pregnant women seeking antenatal care in tertiary care hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan... - Prevalence and factors associated with current smoking among high school adolescents in Karachi, PakistanShafquat Rozi
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, PO Box 3500, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 36:498-504. 2005..7; 95% Cl: 1.1-2.8), uncle smoking (OR = 1.7; 95% Cl: 1.2-2.8), peer smoking (OR = 6.2; 95% Cl: 3.9-9.9), and spending leisure time outside home (OR = 3.9; 95% Cl 1.2-13.2) were significantly associated with adolescent smoking... - HIV risk behavior and practices among heroin addicts in Lahore, PakistanFaran Emmanuel
Department of Community Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 35:940-8. 2004..Of the subjects, 5.5% reported trading sex for drugs or money. We recommend HIV/STD prevention programs encompassing health education and health promotion strategies based on harm reduction techniques be used for drug users... - HIV transmission among drug users in Larkana, PakistanNadeem ur Rehman
Country Office for Pakistan, UNODC, Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan
Trop Doct 37:58-9. 2007.... - Hepatitis B and C: prevalence and risk factors associated with seropositivity among children in Karachi, PakistanWasim Jafri
Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
BMC Infect Dis 6:101. 2006..This cross-sectional study estimated the prevalence and identified risk factors associated with Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and HCV antibody (anti-HCV) sero-positivity among children 1 to 15 years of age... - Measuring antenatal depression and anxiety: findings from a community-based study of women in Hyderabad, PakistanRozina Karmaliani
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Women Health 44:79-103. 2006..Based on the results from the current study, we recommend a short form of the AKUADS which removes poorly functioning items and reduces respondent burden while retaining the reliability and validity of the longer form... - Smoking among high school adolescents in Karachi, PakistanShafquat Rozi
Int J Epidemiol 33:613-4. 2004 - Hepatitis C virus infection in polytransfused thalassemic children in PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Indian Pediatr 41:1072-3. 2004 - Quality evaluation of different honey samples produced in Peshawar valleyGhazal Mairaj
Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Peshawar, Pakistan
Pak J Biol Sci 11:797-800. 2008..These samples were marked to be according to the international standards and are healthy for human consumption... - Space-time clustering of childhood leukaemia cases in Karachi, PakistanSaeed Akhtar
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:221-2. 2005 - Diagnostic validity of two instruments for assessing anxiety and depression among pregnant women in Hyderabad, PakistanRozina Karmaliani
School of Nursing, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Health Care Women Int 28:556-72. 2007..Additional research is needed, however, to improve the sensitivity and specificity of these scales by removing items that do not function well in this population... - Clinical diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum among children with history of fever, Sindh, PakistanSiroos Hozhabri
Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Infect Dis 6:233-5. 2002..To identify clinical predictors for malaria and develop a clinical algorithm to more accurately identify malaria from non-malaria cases...