Publications by authors named "Muhammad Rabiu"
Purpose: To evaluate the progress in Qatar's eye care since 2009, focusing on effective cataract surgical and refractive error coverages, leading to enhanced eye health strategies and action plans.
Methods: A modified Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) survey was employed using multi-stage sampling in all persons 50 years and older in Qatar. The study focused on uncorrected refractive errors, cataract surgery coverage and effectiveness, and visual acuity assessment.
Introduction: This study is a population-based investigation into the prevalence and causes of blindness and vision impairment (VI) among people aged 50 years and older living in the State of Qatar.
Methods: A Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) methodology, applied from May 2022 to June 2023, utilized stratified two-stage cluster random sampling to select 5,060 persons aged 50 years and older resident in Qatar from 145 communities chosen by probability proportional to size. Communities were stratified by Qatari and non-Qatari nationality.
The purpose of this study was to identify the putative regulatory elements in the promoter region of strains which differed in susceptibility to DDT and compare with those identified in its sibling . Basal expression level of Epsilon class GSTs (Glutathione S - transferases) GSTe1 gene was 0.512 - 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Difficult airway management remains one of the most challenging clinical situations encountered by anaesthetists.
Aim: The study compared the effectiveness of the McGrath MAC video laryngoscope to the McCoy laryngoscope in patients with difficult airway.
Materials And Methods: Following the institution's ethical approval, the randomised controlled trial was conducted involving 74 adults with American Society of anaesthesiologists' physical status (ASA) grading of I-III scheduled for elective surgery.
Purpose: The aim was to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of refractive errors (REs) and the effective spectacle coverage in Emiratis and non-Emiratis in Dubai.
Design: The Dubai Eye Health Survey was a population-based cross-sectional study of participants aged 40 years or older.
Methods: Distance and near visual acuity (VA), and noncycloplegic automated refraction were tested according to a standardized protocol.
The importance of phosphorus in the regulation of plant growth function is well studied. However, the role of the inorganic phosphate (Pi) molecule in the mitigation of abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heavy metal, heat, and acid stresses are poorly understood. We revisited peer-reviewed articles on plant growth characteristics that are phosphorus (P)-dependently regulated under the sufficient-P and low/no-P starvation alone or either combined with one of the mentioned stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To estimate the prevalence and magnitude of diabetes mellitus and diabetic retinopathy among people with diabetes mellitus in Katsina State.
Methods: A population-based cross-sectional study of persons aged 50 years and over in Katsina State Nigeria based on the rapid assessment of avoidable blindness survey plus diabetic retinopathy methodology. The study was conducted in November and December 2018.
Background: This study was undertaken to ascertain the current magnitude and causes of blindness and visual impairment in persons aged 50 years and over and to assess the impact of a 10-year eye care program in Sokoto State, Nigeria.
Methods: A rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB) survey (in persons 50 years and over) was conducted in 2016. Participants were selected in Wurno health zone using a two-stage cluster randomized sampling with probability proportional to size.
Aim: To generate data on blindness and visual impairment for planning and monitoring a comprehensive eye care programme in Katsina state of Nigeria.
Method: A rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB) survey methodology was used to select 3120 persons aged 50 years and over. The sample was selected using a multistage cluster randomised sampling.
Purpose: This study was conducted to assess the impact of the eye care programme on cataract blindness and cataract surgical services in Sokoto, Nigeria over a 12 year period 2005-2016.
Methods: Data from the 2005 population based cross-sectional study of blindness in Sokoto state was re-analysed to obtain baseline estimates of the prevalence of cataract blindness and cataract surgical coverage for persons 50 years and over in Wurno health zone. A population based survey of a representative sample of persons 50 years and over in Wurno health zone was conducted in July 2016.
Purpose: To assess the major causes of avoidable blindness, and outcomes and barriers to cataract services in Libya.
Methods: A stratified multistage cluster random sample study was conducted in the four regions of Libya. Visual acuity and lens assessment were performed on all subjects.
Enhancing advocacy for eye care at national levels: what steps to take for the next decade?
Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol
January 2012
The global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness by the year 2020-(VISION 2020- The Right to Sight), established in 1999, is a partnership of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), governments, bilateral organizations, corporate bodies and the World Health Organization. The goal is to eliminate the major causes of avoidable blindness by the year 2020. Significant progress has been made in the last decade.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To provide baseline data for cataract surgical services in Birnin-Kebbi Local Government Area (LGA) of Kebbi state, Nigeria for effective planning of services in the LGA and the state.
Methods: People aged 50 years and above were enrolled in the study using stratified cluster sampling with probability proportional to size procedures. Subjects were assessed based on the WHO (World Health Organization) RACSS (Rapid Assessment of Cataract Surgical Services) methodology.