Publications by authors named "Merci Monica Pasaribu"
Introduction: Transitional-aged youths (17-to-24-years-old) are prone to mental-health problems. Students in higher education, especially medical students, are more exposed to stressors and thus need training to increase resilience. However, there have been limited mental-health strengthening modules specifically developed for medical students of transitional age, and none in Indonesia.
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- Cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly acute coronary syndrome (ACS), is the leading cause of death globally, with risk factors ranging from non-modifiable, like age and family history, to modifiable ones such as dyslipidemia and hypertension.
- A study involving 62 STEMI patients and 20 non-ACS CAD patients investigated the correlation between apolipoproteins and ACS, revealing distinct differences in apoA1 levels and the apoB/apoA1 ratio between the two groups.
- The findings indicate that hypertension and apoA1 are significant risk factors for STEMI, suggesting that monitoring these can help identify individuals at risk for myocardial infarction.
Background: Confirmatory hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is an assay used to distinguish weakly reactive from false-positive HBsAg results.
Objective: To determine the signal to cutoff (S/CO) value of chemiluminescence microparticle immunoassay (CMIA) HBsAg assay that should trigger follow-up confirmatory HBsAg testing.
Methods: All specimens with an initial S/CO value of 0.