Iqbal Kabir

Association between infant feeding patterns and diarrhoeal and respiratory illness: A cohort study in Chittagong, Bangladesh (2008)

Mihrshahi, Seema, Oddy, Wendy H, Peat, Jennifer K, Kabir, Iqbal

Abstract Background In developing countries, infectious diseases such as diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections are the main cause of mortality and morbidity in infants aged less than one year....

Nutrition: Basis for Healthy Children and Mothers in Bangladesh (2008)

Faruque, A.S.G., Ahmed, A.M. Shamsir, Ahmed, Tahmeed, Hossain, Md. Iqbal, Roy, S.K., Alam, Nurul, ...

Recent data from the World Health Organization showed that about 60% of all deaths, occurring among children aged less than five years (under-five children) in developing countries, could be...

Initial Bbeast-feeding practices of urban mothers can be influenced by peer counselling (2007)

Haider, Rukhsana, Ashworth, Ann, Kabir, Iqbal, Huttly, Sharon R.A.

Objective: Assess the effect of peer counselling on early postpartum breast-feeding practices of urban mothers. Methodology: Forty localities of similar size in Dhaka were randomized as intervention...

Efficacy of tetracycline in the treatment of cholera due to vibrio cholerae O139 (2007)

Hossain, Shahadat, Salam, MA, Rabbani, GH, Kabir, Iqbal, Mahalanabis, Dilip

Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of tetracycline in the treatment of acute watery diarrhoea due to V. cholerae 0139. Methods: A randomized placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial was...

Campylobacter jejuni bacteraemia in children with diarrhoea in Bangladesh: report of six cases (2007)

Hossain, Muhammad Anowar, Kabir, Iqbal, Albert, M. John, Kibriya, AKMG, Alam, Khorshed, Alam, A.N.

Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from blood cultures bom 6 of 6»27S diarrhoea! children seeking treatment at the Clinical Research Centre of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease...

Erythromycin and Trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole in the Treatment of Cholera in Children (2007)

Kabir, Iqbal, Khan, Wasif Ali, Haider, Rukhsana, Mitra, Amal K., Alam, Ahmed Nurul

To evaluate the efficacy of erythromycin and trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) in the treatment of cholera in children aged 1-8 years, a randomised clinical trial was conducted at a diarrhoea...

Supplementation of Fish-oil and Soy-oil during Pregnancy and Psychomotor Development of Infants (2006)

Fahmida Tofail, Iqbal Kabir, Jena D. Hamadani, Fahima Chowdhury, Sakila Yesmin, Fardina Mehreen, ...

Supplementation of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in infancy improves neuro-developmental outcomes, but there is limited information about the impact of supplementing pregnant mothers with DHA on the...

Supplementation of fish-oil and soy-oil during pregnancy and psychomotor development of infants (2006)

Tofail, Fahmida, Kabir, Iqbal, Hamadani, Jena D., Chowdhury, Fahima, Yesmin, Sakila, Mehreen, Fardina, ...

Supplementation of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in infancy improves neuro-developmental outcomes, but there is limited information about the impact of supplementing pregnant mothers with DHA on the...

Bioelectrical impedance measurements at various frequencies to estimate human body compositions (1997)

Khaled, M. A., Kabir, Iqbal, Goran, M.I., Mahalanabis, Dilip

Bioelectrical impedance analyses (BIA) operating at various frequencies were used to estimate body composition parameters and compared with the biochemically determined parameters by using isotopic...

Early feeding of an energy dense diet during acute shigellosis enhances growth in malnourished children (1997)

Mazumder, Ramendra N., Hoque, Syed S., Ashraf, Hasan, Kabir, Iqbal, Wahed, Mohammad A.

In a controlled clinical trial, we examined the effect of the short-term feeding of an energy-dense milk cereal formula in malnourished children with clinically severe dysentery due to acute...

Absorption of macronutrients from a calorie-dense diet in malnourished children during acute shigellosis (1996)

Mazumder, Ramendra N., Kabir, Iqbal, Rahman, M. Mujibur, Khatun, Makduma, Mahalanabis, Dilip

A metabolic balance study was performed to determine the absorption of macronutrients and energy from different food items in 23 malnourished children aged 12 to 48 months with clinically severe...

Early complementary feeding is associated with low nutritional status of young infants recovering from diarrhoea (1996)

Haider, Rukhsana, Islam, Asma, Kabir, Iqbal, Habte, Demissie

Young infants admitted to hospital for diarrhoea were studied to identify and understand the reasons for early complementary feeding and to examine its effect on nutritional status. Of 132 infants,...

Diarrhea associated with Cyclospora Sp. in Bangladesh (1994)

Albert, M. John, Kabir, Iqbal, Azim, Tasnim, Hossain, Anowar, Ansaruzzaman, Mohammed, Unicomb, Leanne

A spherical acid-fast organism measuring approximately 10 microns in diameter (Cyclospora sp.) has recently been implicated in diarrheal diseases in many parts of the world. We detected this organism...

The effect of dietary protein supplementation on insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and IGF-binding proteins in children with shigellosis (1993)

Pucilowska, Jolanta B., Davenport, Marsha L., Kabir, Iqbal, Clemmons, David R., Thissen, Jean-Paul, Butler, Thomas, ...

Nutrient deficiency causes growth failure and decreases serum insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) concentrations. Because IGFBPs modulate the concentrations and availability of IGFs in serum,...

Systemic allergic reaction and diarrhoea after pineapple ingestion (1993)

Kabir, Iqbal, Speelman, Peter, Islam, Asma

Some foods may initiate allergic reactions. Anaphylaxis due to mangoes, oranges, nuts and other foods has been reported earlier. We report the clinical and laboratory features of 32 patients who...

Patterns of morbidity and mortality in typhoid fever dependent on age and gender: review of 552 hospitalized patients with diarrhea (1991)

Butler, Thomas, Islam, Asma, Kabir, Iqbal, Jones, Paul K.

Features of typhoid fever were correlated with age and gender through a review of the charts of 552 hospitalized culture-positive patients with diarrhea in Bangladesh. Seizures occurred more...

Colonic dysfunction during shigellosis (1986)

Butler, Thomas, Speelman, Peter, Kabir, Iqbal, Banwell, John

To study the pathogenesis of shigella diarrhea, we evaluated 11 patients for colonic fluid and electrolyte flux. Methods used were subtraction of the fecal flow rate from the ileocecal flow rate and...

Comparative efficacies of single intravenous doses of ceftriaxone and ampicillin for shigellosis in a placebo-controlled trial (1986)

Kabir, Iqbal, Butler, Thomas, Khanam, Asma

To evaluate ceftriaxone for the treatment of shigellosis, 94 adult males with acute dysentery were randomly assigned to receive ceftriaxone (1 g), ampicillin (4 g), or saline placebo intravenously in...

Shigella septicemia: prevalence, presentation, risk factors, and outcome (1985)

Struelens, Mare J., Patte, Didier, Kabir, Iqbal, Salam, Abdus, Nath, Samir K., Butler, Thomas

The prevalence, presentation, and outcome of bacteremia due to Shigella and other gram-negative bacteria were determined by review of records of 2,018 inpatients with shigellosis who had their blood...

An animal model of haemolytic--uraemic syndrome in shigellosis: lipopolysaccharides of Shigella dysenteriae I and S. flexneri produce leucocyte-mediated renal cortical necrosis in rabbits (1985)

Butler, Thomas, Rahman, Hamidur, Al-Mahmud, K.A., Islam, Moyenul, Bardhan, Pradip, Kabir, Iqbal, ...

To develop an animal model of the haemolytic-uraemic syndrome during shigellosis, rabbits were injected with lipopolysaccharides (LPS) extracted by the hot phenol-water method from Shigella...

Challenges to the Monitoring and Evaluation of Large Nutrition Programs in Developing Countries: Examples from Bangladesh

Rezaul Karim, Jennifer Coates, Gwenola Desplats, Iqbal Kabir, Yeakub Patwari, Stephanie Ortolano, ...

Most large-scale nutrition surveys carried out in developing countries have been conducted to compile or update national or regional data that are independent of project activities. At the same time,...

Challenges to the Monitoring and Evaluation of Large Nutrition Programs in Developing Countries: Examples from Bangladesh

Rezaul Karim, Jennifer Coates, Gwenola Desplats, Iqbal Kabir, Yeakub Patwari, Stephanie Ortolano, ...

Most large-scale nutrition surveys carried out in developing countries have been conducted to compile or update national or regional data that are independent of project activities. At the same time,...