Current malaria management: guideline 2009.

Malaria is still a health problem in the world, particularly in Indonesia with high morbidity and mortality rate. Increased mortality rate due to malaria has been reported and it may occur because of the raising in anti-malarial resistance. Chloroquine-resistant P.

Insulin resistance profile among siblings of type 2 diabetes mellitus (preliminary study).

Aim: to obtain prevalence of insulin resistance among siblings of subjects with type 2 DM and their metabolic abnormality profiles as measured by their BMI, waist circumference (WC), blood pressure, glucose intolerance, concentration of triglyceride, HDL cholesterol, and uric acid.

Methods: a preliminary, cross sectional study conducted among 30 siblings from seven type 2 DM subjects under medical treatment in Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital and other places where the subjects lived.

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome using NCEP/ATP III criteria in Jakarta, Indonesia: the Jakarta primary non-communicable disease risk factors surveillance 2006.

Aim: To obtain the prevalence of MetS in Jakarta, as a capital city of Indonesia.

Methods: Data were obtained from surveillance of primary non-communicable disease in five regions in Jakarta, Indonesia, conducted in 2006. Targeting for 1,800 samples, we performed a purposive and simple random sampling of subjects within the age range of 25-64 years old in selected sampling areas, and stratified random sampling by adjusting to age and sex within those selected sampling areas.

Relationship of angiotensin converting enzyme gene polymorphism and hypertension in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Aim: To evaluate the association between ACE gene polymorphism I/D and hypertension in Yogyakarta population.

Methods: This study is a cross-sectional. Sample was taken by random sampling method from hypertensive, prehypertensve and normotensive subjects; from that were obtained 125 subjects, 97 subjects and 108 subjects, consecutively.

Factors associated with bone metastasis in breast cancer: a preliminary study in an Indonesian population.

Aim: to know the characteristics of breast cancer patients with bone metastasis and its risk factors.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study on breast cancer patients in Dharmais Cancer Hospital between 1998 and 2002. Data were retrieved from medical records and consisted of age, history of hormonal contraceptive use, histopathological type, estrogen receptor (ER) and progesteron receptor (PR) expression, c-erbB-2 and cathepsin D expressions.