Background: Dyslipidemia is an abnormal amount of lipids and/or lipoproteins in the blood. It is a major risk factor of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis. Objective: This study investigated two single nucleotide ...

Although the physiological characteristics of vulvar skin have been characterized in Caucasians, little is known about the vulvar skin of Asian women. This study assessed the moisture content, transepidermal water loss ...

Background: The dialysis patients have a lot of changes in cardiac structure and function detected by echocardiography and they have been recognized as key outcome predictors. However, the available data regarding ...

Twenty-eight adolescents with menorrhagia by pictorial blood loss assessment chart (PBAC) criteria were investigated for underlying hemostatic defect. CBC, ABO blood group, bleeding time, APTT, PT, TT, FVIII:C, VWF:Ag, ...

Objective: This study explored the concept of resilience in rural Thai older people. Method: The study was exploratory and descriptive in design. Ethnographic fieldwork was undertaken in four rural Thai communities. ...

Objective: Mycophenolic acid (MPA) has become the first-line drug therapy for proliferative lupus nephritis, a common and serious complication of systemic lupus erythematosus. Although a sufficient MPA exposure is required, ...

Background: Incidence of breast cancer is rising in Asian countries, and breast cancer is the most common cancer among Asian women. However, there are few recent descriptive reports on the epidemiology of breast cancer ...

Introduction: Subgaleal hematomas usually develop followed a birth trauma in neonates. This entity is extremely rare in older children and may be associated with coagulation disorders or subaponeurotic vascular malformations. ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of snoring in Thai, pregnant women. Material and Method: This study was carried out from April 2008 through August 2008 at the antenatal clinic, HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn ...

Screening for a 27-bp deletion in the band 3 protein gene that causes Southeast Asian/Melanesian ovalocytosis (SAO) was carried out using the PCR method among 15 Southeast Asian populations of Thailand (Akha, Hmong, Isaan, ...