Introduction There is immense current interest in the effects of thyroid hormones on bone.
This is largely due to concern that patients on thyroxine replacement therapy are at …

Background: vitamin D supplementation reduces the incidence of fractures in older adults.
This may be partly mediated by effects of vitamin D on neuromuscular function. Objective: to …

Vitamin D deficiency is increasingly recognised as a common problem among older adults.
In addition to the well-known role of vitamin D in calcium homeostasis and the maintenance …

Vitamin D and calcium supplementation significantly reduces the incidence of fractures.
Evidence suggests vitamin D deficiency impairs neuromuscular function, causing an …

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia
resulting from either inadequate insulin production, reduced tissue sensitivity to insulin or …

HIV-1-infected persons are at higher risk of lower respiratory tract infections than HIV-1-
uninfected individuals. This suggests strongly that HIV-infected persons have specific …

Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National
Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi | PLOS Medicine Skip to main content …

Objective: To investigate HIV, its treatment, and hypertension as stroke risk factors in
Malawian adults. Methods: We performed a case-control study of 222 adults with acute …

Background: knee arthritis is a risk factor for falling. Increasing numbers of people are
receiving total knee arthroplasty (TKA) but the natural history of falling before and after TKA …

Introduction Between 1998 and 2010, S. Typhi was an uncommon cause of bloodstream
infection (BSI) in Blantyre, Malawi and it was usually susceptible to first-line antimicrobial …