COVID-19 death and kidney disease in a multiracial Asian country.

Introduction: COVID-19 infection and kidney disease (KD) carry a considerable risk of mortality. Understanding predictors of death and KD may help improve management and patient outcome.

Methods: This is a prospective multicentre observational study conducted in a multiracial Asian country to identify predictors of death and acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized COVID-19 patients from January to June 2020.

Effectiveness of training stop-smoking advisers to deliver cessation support to the UK national proposed standard versus usual care in Malaysia: a two-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Aims: To assess the effectiveness of training stop smoking services providers in Malaysia to deliver support for smoking cessation based on the UK National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) standard treatment programme compared with usual care.

Design: Two-arm cluster-randomized controlled effectiveness trial across 19 sites with follow-up at 4-week, 3-month, and 6-month.

Setting: Stop smoking services operating in public hospitals in Malaysia.

Anteceding factors predicting absenteeism and presenteeism in urban area in Malaysia.

Background: Organization productivity is strongly linked to employees' socioeconomic characteristics and health which is marked by absenteeism and presenteeism. This study aims to identify anteceding factors predicting employees' absenteeism and presenteeism by income, physical and mental health.

Methods: An online health survey was conducted between May to July 2017 among employees from 47 private companies located in urban Malaysia.

Workplace bullying and psychological distress of employees across socioeconomic strata: a cross-sectional study.

Background: 1Little is known of the extent of workplace bullying in Malaysia, despite its growing recognition worldwide as a serious public health issue in the workplace. Workplace bullying is linked to stress-related health issues, as well as socioeconomic consequences which may include absenteeism due to sick days and unemployment. We sought to examine the prevalence of workplace bullying and its association with socioeconomic factors and psychological distress in a large observational study of Malaysian employees.

Estimating dengue incidence and hospitalization in Malaysia, 2001 to 2013.

Background: Epidemiologic measures of the dengue burden such as prevalence and incidence are important for policy-making and monitoring the progress of disease control. It is a common practice where epidemiologic and economic research estimate dengue burden based on notification data. However, a basic challenge in estimating the incidence of dengue is that a significant proportion of infected population are asymptomatic.

Rural-urban comparisons of dengue seroprevalence in Malaysia.

Background: Each year an estimated 390 million dengue infections occur worldwide. In Malaysia, dengue is a growing public health concern but estimate of its disease burden remains uncertain. We compared the urban-rural difference of dengue seroprevalence and determined age-specific dengue seroprevalence in Malaysia.