Publications by authors named "Muhammad Abdur Rahman Afridi"
Objective: To determine the frequency of new-onset diabetes mellitus (NODM) in patients with COVID-19 in a tertiary care hospital.
Method: It was a retrospective descriptive study carried out in Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan from November 2021 to April 2022. All patients having new onset Diabetes Mellitus (NODM) were identified among a total of 300 patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 infection.
Objective: To compare Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) with Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) in highly suspected COVID-19 patients and to determine its diagnostic parameters.
Study Design: Hospital-based, descriptive/observational study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Medicine/COVID Complex, Medical Teaching Institution/Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, from October 2021 to April 2022.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to explore the relationship between different blood groups and the severity of Dengue fever in patients at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar over a six-month period.
- - Among 160 patients, the majority had Dengue fever (63.1%), with blood Group B being the most common, but no significant link was found between blood type and disease severity.
- - The results indicated that younger men were more frequently diagnosed with Dengue, showing high rates of common symptoms like fever and body aches, while blood Group AB was rarely affected and did not present cases of Dengue shock syndrome.