Volume 15, Issue 1

Shariza Sahudin, Mumtaz Hussain, Khairunnisa Mohd Salleh, Muhammad Izzudin Zamery

pp. 150–160 · DOI: 10.5530/097515050525 · 2022

Background:The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated movement control orders have directly impacted various supply chains, including food and healthcare. While the early impacts of the pandemic on health have been widely …

Damodar G, Subhakar Raju R, Rajasekhar Reddy A, SN Koteswara Rao G, Chakravarthi G

pp. 161–166 · DOI: 10.5530/097515050534 · 2022

Background:Psychological problems of a person have a direct physiological effect on the elicitation of cardiac disease and these mental disorders add burden in managing cardiovascular diseases. There is a high incidence …

Katherine Xavier Bastos, Maria Isis Freire de Aguiar, José Huygens Parente Garcia, Paulo Sérgio DouradoArrais

pp. 167–173 · DOI: 10.5530/097515050491 · 2022

Background: Liver transplantation is a procedure used worldwide; however, after a surgery many changes are necessary for this outcome; therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the quality of life of liver tr…

Kumutha Theivasigamani, Senthilkumar Palaniappan

pp. 174–181 · DOI: 10.5530/097515050532 · 2022

Background:Knowledge of a disease is an important component of health literacy, that can minimize the mortality and morbidity associated with the problem. Lack of knowledge of a disease leads to the emergence of complica…

Edmir Geraldo de Siqueira Fraga, Edilson Martins Rodrigues Neto, Fernanda Maria Teófilo Campos, Manoel Patrick da Silva Cavalcante, Frederico Augusto Amorim, Luiz Filipe Barbosa Martins, Antônia Kelly Martins Sousa, Ana Cristina de Mello Fiallos, Marcelo Jenné Mimica

pp. 182–188 · DOI: 10.5530/097515050561 · 2022

Background:Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) are present in the bacterial biofilm involved in the onset and progression of childhood caries, favoring acid production and dental demineralization. Sugar consumption favors t…

Kular Simran Kaur, Mahesh L Gupta, Hemraj Singh Rajput, Cyril Sajan

pp. 189–192 · DOI: 10.5530/097515050444 · 2022

Tetralogy of Fallot is a type of critical congenital heart disease that reduces the amount of oxygen delivered to the body in which adults usually live past the age of 21. Despite the fact that the average life span of a…