Expression of human mammaglobin and clinicopathologic correlations in breast cancer: the findings in Malaysia.

Background: Human mammaglobin (hMAG) is a secreted protein which has been detected in breast epithelial cells of mammary glands and has been used as a specific marker for breast cancer.

Objectives: This study aims at studying the hMAG expression and identifying the significant predictors of hMAG expression in breast cancer tissues.

Materials And Methods: The tissue samples were obtained from two major teaching hospitals in the country.

The effect of increased consumption of edible palm oil on the nutritional status, lipid profiles and lipid peroxidation among malaysian aboriginestc.

This study was conducted to determine the effects of increased edible palm oil consumption on community health status in the aboriginal communities in Tual Post (treatment group) and Sinderut Post (control group), Kuala Lipis, Pahang. Nutritional status, blood pressure, lipid profiles, fasting blood glucose (FBG), vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) levels and lipid peroxidation product (malonaldehyde) levels were taken as indicators of health status. This is a pre-and post-controlled community trial in which similar variables were measured in each group.