Publications by authors named "Mehdi Rizvi"
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- The study investigated the link between cancer risks and the use of SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with Type 2 diabetes by following established research guidelines and analyzing data from 19 randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
- The findings indicated a potential increase in certain types of cancers, including reproductive and skin cancers, associated with SGLT2i use, but these results were not statistically significant.
- The study calls for caution regarding SGLT2i prescriptions for diabetic patients and emphasizes the need for further research to better understand the cancer risk connections.
Nomophobia (no-mobile-phone phobia) is a relatively new term that describes the growing fear and anxiety associated with being without a mobile phone. Our study aims to determine the prevalence of nomophobia among the undergraduate students of Pakistan, and to determine its correlation with age and gender. It also aims to determine the contributory factors of nomophobia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe understanding of linguistic messages can be made extremely complex by the simultaneous presence of interfering sounds, especially when they are also linguistic in nature. In two experiments, we tested if visual cues directing attention to spatial or temporal components of speech in noise can improve its identification. The hearing-in-noise task required identification of a five-digit sequence (target) embedded in a stream of time-reversed speech.
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