Publications by authors named "Shawqi H Alawdi"

Article Synopsis
  • - The study examines clinical features of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) in Syrian women, highlighting a higher prevalence among young and single women, with symptoms like hirsutism and irregular menstrual cycles being common.
  • - Major risk factors contributing to PCOS included lack of exercise, poor dietary habits, and a family history of the condition, with comorbid diseases affecting about 11.5% of the participants.
  • - Treatment primarily involved oral contraceptives and metformin, with varying efficacy; only 25.8% of patients achieved complete remission, while many did not experience significant improvement.
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Background: Metabolic syndrome is a group of metabolic abnormalities that increase predisposition to several diseases including ischemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus. The study aimed to investigate metabolic syndrome among patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM), and its impact on pharmacotherapy outcomes.

Methods: An observational cross-sectional study was performed on 910 patients with type-2 DM between June and December 2023.

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Background: Diamond nanoparticles (Nanodiamond) are biocompatible drug delivery platforms with outstanding surface properties. Their passage into the brain has been confirmed previously. Thus, nanodiamond could provide a drug delivery system to shuttle several drugs through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) which represents a real challenge for the effective delivery of several drugs into the brain.

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Current therapeutic approaches of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are symptomatic and of modest efficacy, and there is no available effective cure or prevention of AD; hence, the need arise to search for neuroprotective agents to combat AD. The current study aimed at investigating the neuroprotective effect of nanodiamond (ND), adamantine-based nanoparticles, in aluminum-induced cognitive impairment in rats, an experimental model of AD. AD was induced by aluminum chloride (17 mg/kg, p.

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