Papers by Md. Rashed Alam
Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Jun 15, 2022
The Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria (HGP) syndrome is an exceptionally rare genetic condition charact... more The Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria (HGP) syndrome is an exceptionally rare genetic condition characterized by premature and accelerated aging in children. It is demonstrated by developmental delay along with progressive degenerative changes of the integumentary, musculoskeletal, cardiac, and vascular systems. In this case report, we describe the ocular manifestations of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria (HGP) syndrome of a 20-year-old Bangladeshi boy. The patient had the classic triad of prominent eyes, loss of eyebrows or madarosis and lagophthalmos, which are the most common ocular manifestations.He also developed dry eye, keratinized ocular surface, Meibomian gland dysfunction, vascularized cornea, symblepharon, corneal opacification, and cataract. He had several systemic manifeastations that included senile facies, prominent scalp veins, generalized alopecia with plucked bird appearance, and sclerodermatous changes. This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
The Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria (HGP) syndrome is an exceptionally rare genetic condition charact... more The Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria (HGP) syndrome is an exceptionally rare genetic condition characterized by premature and accelerated aging in children. It is demonstrated by developmental delay along with progressive degenerative changes of the integumentary, musculoskeletal, cardiac, and vascular systems. In this case report, we describe the ocular manifestations of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria (HGP) syndrome of a 20-year-old Bangladeshi boy. The patient had the classic triad of prominent eyes, loss of eyebrows or madarosis and lagophthalmos, which are the most common ocular manifestations.He also developed dry eye, keratinized ocular surface, Meibomian gland dysfunction, vascularized cornea, symblepharon, corneal opacification, and cataract. He had several systemic manifeastations that included senile facies, prominent scalp veins, generalized alopecia with plucked bird appearance, and sclerodermatous changes.
Physical violence against women is an important issue along with various aspects of population pr... more Physical violence against women is an important issue along with various aspects of population problems. Violence against women is a worldwide plague that cause killings, tortures, and maims at physically, emotionally, sexually and economical levels. This article has been conducted on the issues associated with the physical violence against women using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007 data. This study contains 4190 currently married women out of 10,146 ever married women, because the study is mainly related to physical violence. The aims of this study are to isolate which factors connected with the physical violence against women in Bangladesh. For this, χ 2 test and logistic regression technique are used in the study. Findings indicate that women in the age group 15-24 are more likely to report ever having experienced physical violence, which is the highest (28.1%) number among all age groups. On the other hand, women who have experienced physical violence are the highest (22%) among no education group. The result revealed that the respondents who are involved to manual occupation are mostly physically victimized compared with the non-manual and unemployed respondents. Physical violence is directly related to the duration of marriage. It is observed on that about 20.9% of the respondents who get married before the age of 18 year's experience physical violence. The number of living children has also been appeared as an influential factor for physical violence. Women having 3 and above children have experienced higher physical violence than those who have no children.
American journal of sociological research, Jan 7, 2013
Th is study assesses the contribution of socioeconomic and demographic variables on children ever... more Th is study assesses the contribution of socioeconomic and demographic variables on children ever born (CEB) for wo men who have experienced do mestic vio lence and wo men who have not experienced do mestic v iolence by applying mu ltip le classification analysis (MCA). The shrinkage coefficient (λ) is employed for goodness of fit of the model. For this, Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007 data is used in this study. This study contains 10,146 currently married wo men out of 10,996 ever-married wo men. Findings reveal that respondent's education, age at marriage and wealth index has a negative significant effect on CEB and these are the first, second and third strongest influential factors for explaining the variab ility of CEB included all other variables for both wo men who have experienced domestic vio lence and wo men who have not experienced domestic violence. In this paper, it is recommended that respondent's age at marriage and educational qualification should be raised substantially for abating fertility and domestic vio lence against women in Bangladesh.
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Mar 18, 2022
doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by pee... more doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice.
Journal of pediatrics, perinatology and child health, 2022
Background: The satisfaction of external jobs and education, which can be substituted for those o... more Background: The satisfaction of external jobs and education, which can be substituted for those of child-rearing, have a significant impact on women's working status, which is inversely associated with fertility. The aim of this study is to find out the factors influencing the number of children of working women. Methods: This study examined a total of 18861 working women in Bangladesh, using a nationally representative survey. This study considered working women and the number of children as the dependent variable and various respondents and their husband education, age at first marriage, wealth index, contraceptive use, place of residence and religion were considered as the independent variable. Multiple classification analysis with the number of children is the dependent variable and a set of independent variables was used to determine the influential factors on working women. Results: The number of children is most influenced by the respondent's education and another influence is the age of the first marriage and wealth index. Rural women have greater fertility than urban women, and Muslim respondents had a higher number of births than non-Muslim respondents. The number of children is significantly negative effects on both respondents and their husband education, age at first marriage and wealth index in both three models. Conclusion: Greater involvement of women in working/employment/ labor force is not the main reason for fertility decline in Bangladesh. These findings illustrate how important it is to consider women's education, husband education, age at first marriage and wealth index should be influential factors of the number of children of working women. Finally, it may conclude that improving the educational status of both wife and husband and reducing early marriage and same time marriageable age should be increased for both males and females.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior, 2018
In South Asian region particularly in Bangladesh, adolescent pregnancy is still a major public co... more In South Asian region particularly in Bangladesh, adolescent pregnancy is still a major public concern. Therefore, identification of potential risk factors of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing may help to formulate policy to prevent premature delivery, death and disability. The main objective of this study was to identity the determinants factors of adolescent pregnancy in Bangladesh. Retrospective two-stage stratified sample design. Methods: Data were extracted from nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2011. In this study, age of childbearing was considered as dependent variable and classified as adolescent (≤19 years) and adult (>19 years). Several individual, household and community level factors were considered as the independent variables. Multilevel logistic regression model with household and community random intercept was used to identify the association between dependent and independent variable. The study found that about 28% adolescent had given birth in Bangladesh. Higher educated women (OR=0.65, 95% CI, 0.49-0.96), husband with higher education (OR=0.69, 95% CI, 0.56-0.84) and age at first marriage after age 15 years (OR=0.50, 95% CI, 0.45-0.55) were found to be protective for adolescent pregnancy. Secondary educated women (OR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.03-1.39) showing the higher adolescent pregnancy than women with no education. The risk is high among women in Rangpur (OR=1.19; 95% CI, 1.12 1.25), followed by Khulna (OR=1.16; 95% CI, 1.09 1.23), Rajshahi (OR=1.16; 95% CI, 1.09 1.23) division showing among in Barisal division. Around one fourth of the total pregnancy occurred adolescent age in Bangladesh which is caused by various individual, household and community-level factors. Proper education and increase awareness about the adverse effect of adolescent pregnancy are necessary to reduce occurrence of adolescent pregnancy in Bangladesh.
Journal of Womens Health, Issues and Care, 2018
Background: Adolescent childbearing is a major public health problem worldwide especially in Sout... more Background: Adolescent childbearing is a major public health problem worldwide especially in South Asian Countries. Adolescent pregnancy especially below 17 years of age has been considered to have a higher risk than adult pregnancy, because of biological immaturity of the teenager. In this study it is conduct the systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize the adverse birth and health outcomes associated with adolescent pregnancy. Methods: We adopted the PRISMA consensus statement. PubMed database were searched on February 13, 2016. 24 studies were included, 10 studies go to the quantative synthesis and others go to narrative reviews. Meta –analysis was used to pool the result of the individual studies. Results: Adolescent pregnancy found to be significantly associated with higher risk of low birth weight (LBW), (OR, 1.50; 95% CI 1.27 – 1.78), preterm birth (PTB) (OR, 1.49;95% CI 1.15 – 1.93), small for gestational age (SGA) (OR, 1.33; 95% CI 1.13 – 1.56) and neonatal mortality (OR,1.45; 95% CI 1.20 – 1.76) . Lower risk of cesarean delivery (OR, 0.77; 95% CI 0.60 – 0.98) also reported among the adolescent mothers. Risk of perinatal mortality also found lower (OR, 0.80; 95% CI 0.42 – 1.51) among adolescent mothers, however, the risk was not statistically significant. Conclusion: The findings concluded that adolescence pregnancy increase the risk of LBW, PTB, SGA, neonatal mortality. The risk of cesarean delivery and perinatal mortality found lower among adolescent mothers. Increase awareness about the adverse effect of adolescent pregnancy outcomes may protective rules in adolescent marriage help to reduce such outcomes for the welfare of mother as well as children.
Journal of Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Background: The satisfaction of external jobs and education, which can be substituted for those o... more Background: The satisfaction of external jobs and education, which can be substituted for those of child-rearing, have a significant impact on women's working status, which is inversely associated with fertility. The aim of this study is to find out the factors influencing the number of children of working women. Methods: This study examined a total of 18861 working women in Bangladesh, using a nationally representative survey. This study considered working women and the number of children as the dependent variable and various respondents and their husband education, age at first marriage, wealth index, contraceptive use, place of residence and religion were considered as the independent variable. Multiple classification analysis with the number of children is the dependent variable and a set of independent variables was used to determine the influential factors on working women. Results: The number of children is most influenced by the respondent's education and another influence is the age of the first marriage and wealth index. Rural women have greater fertility than urban women, and Muslim respondents had a higher number of births than non-Muslim respondents. The number of children is significantly negative effects on both respondents and their husband education, age at first marriage and wealth index in both three models. Conclusion: Greater involvement of women in working/employment/ labor force is not the main reason for fertility decline in Bangladesh. These findings illustrate how important it is to consider women's education, husband education, age at first marriage and wealth index should be influential factors of the number of children of working women. Finally, it may conclude that improving the educational status of both wife and husband and reducing early marriage and same time marriageable age should be increased for both males and females.
Primary Health Care, 2018
Background: Delayed childbirth has increased significantly over the past several decades in devel... more Background: Delayed childbirth has increased significantly over the past several decades in developed countries while teenage pregnancy is still common in developing countries. Assessing the association between adolescent childbearing and the risk of perinatal and health outcomes may help policy makers to reform or formulate new policies to prevent premature death, disability and other adverse perinatal outcomes. Objectives: To assess the association between adolescent pregnancy and the risk of adverse maternal, obstetrical and neonatal outcomes. Study design: Data was extracted from 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS). This is a nationally representative population-based survey with a two-stage stratified cluster sample design. Outcomes for adolescent women ≤ 19 years of age were compared with those of women aged 20 to 34 years (young adult) and ≥ 35 years (adult). Multilevel Poisson regression models were used to determine the associated adverse birth and health o...
Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior, 2018
Background: In South Asian region particularly in Bangladesh, adolescent pregnancy is still a maj... more Background: In South Asian region particularly in Bangladesh, adolescent pregnancy is still a major public concern. Therefore, identification of potential risk factors of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing may help to formulate policy to prevent premature delivery, death and disability. Objectives: The main objective of this study was to identity the determinants factors of adolescent pregnancy in Bangladesh. Study design: Retrospective two-stage stratified sample design. Methods: Data were extracted from nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2011. In this study, age of childbearing was considered as dependent variable and classified as adolescent (≤19 years) and adult (>19 years). Several individual, household and community level factors were considered as the independent variables. Multilevel logistic regression model with household and community random intercept was used to identify the association between dependent and independent variable. Results: The study found that about 28% adolescent had given birth in Bangladesh. Higher educated women (OR=0.65, 95% CI, 0.49-0.96), husband with higher education (OR=0.69, 95% CI, 0.56-0.84) and age at first marriage after age 15 years (OR=0.50, 95% CI, 0.45-0.55) were found to be protective for adolescent pregnancy. Secondary educated women (OR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.03-1.39) showing the higher adolescent pregnancy than women with no education. The risk is high among women in Rangpur (OR=1.19; 95% CI, 1.12 1.25), followed by Khulna (OR=1.16; 95% CI, 1.09 1.23), Rajshahi (OR=1.16; 95% CI, 1.09 1.23) division showing among in Barisal division. Conclusion: Around one fourth of the total pregnancy occurred adolescent age in Bangladesh which is caused by various individual, household and community-level factors. Proper education and increase awareness about the adverse effect of adolescent pregnancy are necessary to reduce occurrence of adolescent pregnancy in Bangladesh.
Journal of Womens Health, Issues and Care, 2018
Background: Adolescent childbearing is a major public health problem worldwide especially in Sout... more Background: Adolescent childbearing is a major public health problem worldwide especially in South Asian Countries. Adolescent pregnancy especially below 17 years of age has been considered to have a higher risk than adult pregnancy, because of biological immaturity of the teenager. In this study it is conduct the systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize the adverse birth and health outcomes associated with adolescent pregnancy. Methods: We adopted the PRISMA consensus statement. PubMed database were searched on February 13, 2016. 24 studies were included, 10 studies go to the quantative synthesis and others go to narrative reviews. Meta –analysis was used to pool the result of the individual studies. Results: Adolescent pregnancy found to be significantly associated with higher risk of low birth weight (LBW), (OR, 1.50; 95% CI 1.27 – 1.78), preterm birth (PTB) (OR, 1.49;95% CI 1.15 – 1.93), small for gestational age (SGA) (OR, 1.33; 95% CI 1.13 – 1.56) and neonatal mortality (OR,1.45; 95% CI 1.20 – 1.76) . Lower risk of cesarean delivery (OR, 0.77; 95% CI 0.60 – 0.98) also reported among the adolescent mothers. Risk of perinatal mortality also found lower (OR, 0.80; 95% CI 0.42 – 1.51) among adolescent mothers, however, the risk was not statistically significant. Conclusion: The findings concluded that adolescence pregnancy increase the risk of LBW, PTB, SGA, neonatal mortality. The risk of cesarean delivery and perinatal mortality found lower among adolescent mothers. Increase awareness about the adverse effect of adolescent pregnancy outcomes may protective rules in adolescent marriage help to reduce such outcomes for the welfare of mother as well as children.
Physical violence against women is an important issue along with various aspects of population pr... more Physical violence against women is an important issue along with various aspects of population problems. Violence against women is a worldwide plague that cause killings, tortures, and maims at physically, emotionally, sexually and economical levels. This article has been conducted on the issues associated with the physical violence against women using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007 data. This study contains 4190 currently married women out of 10,146 ever married women, because the study is mainly related to physical violence. The aims of this study are to isolate which factors connected with the physical violence against women in Bangladesh. For this, χ 2 test and logistic regression technique are used in the study. Findings indicate that women in the age group 15-24 are more likely to report ever having experienced physical violence, which is the highest (28.1%) number among all age groups. On the other hand, women who have experienced physical violence are the highest (22%) among no education group. The result revealed that the respondents who are involved to manual occupation are mostly physically victimized compared with the non-manual and unemployed respondents. Physical violence is directly related to the duration of marriage. It is observed on that about 20.9% of the respondents who get married before the age of 18 year's experience physical violence. The number of living children has also been appeared as an influential factor for physical violence. Women having 3 and above children have experienced higher physical violence than those who have no children.
Migration is a process that occurs between two geographical places of population with high ambiti... more Migration is a process that occurs between two geographical places of population with high ambition and many objectives. Rural to urban migration is responsible for two-third of the increment of urban population annually in Bangladesh. The purpose of this study is to identify the direct and indirect effects of some selected socioeconomic and demographic variables on female migrants. For this study, the data is collected using three-stage sampling technique from Meherpur Sadar Thana under Meherpur district, Bangladesh. To fulfill the objectives, path model analysis was to estimate the direct, indirect and joint contribution of socioeconomic and demographic variables on females' decision of migrantion. It is found that age at first marriage, religion and occupation of respondent have significant direct negative effects while educational qualification of respondent have direct positive effects on female migration.
BackgroundAround 47% of the total conceptions in Bangladesh are unintended which leads to several... more BackgroundAround 47% of the total conceptions in Bangladesh are unintended which leads to several adverse consequences, including maternal and child mortality. Availability of menstrual regulation (MR) service and its use can help women to end conception at an earlier stage, as such, reducing adverse consequences related to the unintended pregnancy. We explored the prevalence and determinants of MR service knowledge and its use among ever-married women in Bangladesh.MethodsA total of 20 127 ever-married women data from the 2017 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey were analyzed. Knowledge about menstrual regulation (MR) and its use were our outcomes of interest. Several individual, household and community-level factors were considered as explanatory variables. The multilevel mixed-effects Poisson regression model was used to determine the factors associated with MR service knowledge and its use in Bangladesh.ResultsAround 71% of the total analyzed women reported they know about ...
Athens Journal of Education
Education is one of the most important factors in producing human resources. University education... more Education is one of the most important factors in producing human resources. University education can be influenced by many factors that affect students’ quality of academic performance. The main focus of this study is identifying the influencing factors that are significantly associated with the academic performance of universities students. Data were extracted from the various departments of two public universities. Data analysis by Contingency and logistic regression were used to identify the determinants of academic performance of the students. Among the students, 56.8% were male and 43.2% were female most of them are Muslims and unmarried. 75.1% of students came from rural areas, only 15% of students’ mothers were higher educated and 65% of student's family status was middle class. Higher educated mother, HSC and SSC results, admitted to an expected university, admitted present department by their own choice, study environment in the department and use of the internet had s...
Public Health Open Access, 2021
Miscarriage is one of the common, however devastating pregnancy outcomes. In this study experienc... more Miscarriage is one of the common, however devastating pregnancy outcomes. In this study experience of miscarriage is investigated from a socio-demographic view point in Bangladesh context. The principal aim is to identify the determinants of miscarriage experienced by currently pregnant women. Primary data used for the analysis and it’s extracted from one public and another three private hospitals and clinic at Rajshahi City in Bangladesh to a purposive sample of 418 ever married women aged 15-49 years. A contingency analysis was first constructed to identify the important relations based on experience of miscarriage by various selected socio-demographic characteristics. Then binary logistic regression analyses were integral to evaluate the significance of these interactions along with the individuals risks factors. The study results showed that 11.2% ever married currently pregnant women were having of experience of miscarriage. Duration of pregnancy period mean score is 9.34 weeks...
Journal of Coastal Zone Management, 2020
Wetland ecosystem of Bangladesh has great importance for the country’s economic, industrial, ecol... more Wetland ecosystem of Bangladesh has great importance for the country’s economic, industrial, ecological, socioeconomic, and cultural aspects. Wetlands of north eastern region are very prominent for freshwater capture fisheries but a few studies focused on comprehensive assessment of biodiversity, conservation necessities, affecting drivers and its impact on natural wetland and dependent community. The present study has been conducted to identify the present status of fish diversity assemblage, dominance index, evenness and distribution of the species, conservation requirements, natural and anthropogenic factors affecting the biodiversity and human well-being of Dekhar Haor by employing qualitative and quantitative methods in two fishing communities. It was noticed that there were 69 fish species under 8 orders where 39 species were not threatened, 11 species were endangered, 10 species were vulnerable, 8 species were critically endangered and 1 species were near to threatened. Cypri...
Children are the future of the nation and hopes and dreams of the world. But in the least develop... more Children are the future of the nation and hopes and dreams of the world. But in the least developed countries like Bangladesh they are faced with enormous problems. The most heinous problem of children is undoubtedly “Child Labour”. It is evident that, through the child labourers’ work at various health hazardous situations they have very little access to primary health care and their overall health condition and nutritional status is very low. However, in Bangladesh although child labour has declined, it is still far from replacement level. In this study, an attempt has been made to assess the child labour differentials and determinants in Bangladesh from Chapai Nawabganj district. The purpose of this study is to identify the harmful effects on various aspects of a child’s life involved in child labour. Multivariate analysis such as path analysis has been used to find out the direct, indirect, and implied effects of the selected variables. The statistical analysis of socio economic...
American Journal of Sociological Research, 2013
Th is study assesses the contribution of socioeconomic and demographic variables on children ever... more Th is study assesses the contribution of socioeconomic and demographic variables on children ever born (CEB) for wo men who have experienced do mestic vio lence and wo men who have not experienced do mestic v iolence by applying mu ltip le classification analysis (MCA). The shrinkage coefficient (λ) is employed for goodness of fit of the model. For this, Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007 data is used in this study. This study contains 10,146 currently married wo men out of 10,996 ever-married wo men. Findings reveal that respondent's education, age at marriage and wealth index has a negative significant effect on CEB and these are the first, second and third strongest influential factors for explaining the variab ility of CEB included all other variables for both wo men who have experienced domestic vio lence and wo men who have not experienced domestic violence. In this paper, it is recommended that respondent's age at marriage and educational qualification should be raised substantially for abating fertility and domestic vio lence against women in Bangladesh.
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