Submissions from 2011
Non-HDL cholesterol as a metric of good quality of care: Opportunities and challenges, Salim S. Virani
Usefulness of single nucleotide polymorphism in chromosome 4q25 to predict in-hospital and long-term development of atrial fibrillation and survival in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, Salim S. Virani, Ariel Brautbar, Vei-Vei Lee, Macarthur Elayda, Shehzad Sami, Vijay Nambi, Lorraine Frazier, James M. Wilson, James T. Willerson, and Eric Boerwinkle
Relation of cholesterol and lipoprotein parameters with carotid artery plaque characteristics: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) carotid MRI study, Salim S. Virani, Diane J. Catellier, Lisa A. Pompeii, Vijay Nambi, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Bruce A. Wasserman, Josef Coresh, Thomas H. Mosley, James D. Otvos, and A Richey Sharrett
Update on therapies targeting HDL: The mystery continues, Salim S. Virani and Christie M Ballantyne Christie M Ballantyne
Barriers to non-HDL cholesterol goal attainment by providers, Salim S. Virani, Lynne Steinberg, Tyler Murray, Smita Negi, Vijay Nambi, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Biykem Bozkurt, Laura A. Petersen, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Relationship between circulating levels of RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T-cell expressed, and secreted) and carotid plaque characteristics: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) carotid MRI study, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi Vijay Nambi, Ron Hoogeveen, Bruce A. Wasserman, Josef Coresh, Franklyn Gonzalez 2nd, Lloyd E. Chambless, Thomas H. Mosley, Eric Boerwinkle, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Frequency and correlates of treatment intensification for elevated cholesterol levels in patients with cardiovascular disease, Salim S. Virani, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Supicha S. Chitwood, Cassie R. Landrum, Tracy H. Urech, Degang Wang, Jeffrey Murawsky, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Institutional, provider, and patient correlates of low-density lipoprotein and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal attainment according to the adult treatment panel III guidelines, Salim S. Virani, Lechauncy D. Woodard, Cassie R. Landrum, Kenneth Pietz, Degang Wang, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Segmental analysis of carotid arterial strain using speckle-tracking, Eric Y. Yang, Hisham Dokainish, Salim S. Virani, Arunima Misra, Allison M. Pritchett, Nasser Lakkis, Gerd Brunner, Jaromir Bobek, Marti L. McCulloch, and Craig J. Hartley
Real-time co-registration using novel ultrasound technology: Ex vivo validation and in vivo applications, Eric Y. Yang, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Michael J. Washburn, William Zang, Anne L. Hall, Salim S. Virani, Megan D. Hodge, Dan Parker, William S. Kerwin, and Gerald M. Lawrie
Submissions from 2010
Teachers’ knowledge about the nature of mathematics: A survey of secondary school teachers in Karachi, Pakistan, Munira Amirali and Anjum Halai
Cornering the market: restriction of retail supermarket locations, Nairne Cameron, Carl Amrhein, Karen E Smoyer-Tomic, Kim D Raine, and Lee Yen Chong
Gender and mathematics education in Pakistan: a situation analysis, Anjum Halai
Designing a balanced scorecard for a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan: a modified Delphi group exercise., F. Rabbani, Syed M Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Mairaj Shah, Syed Iqbal Azam, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Contracting of primary health care services in Pakistan: is up-scaling a pragmatic thinking, Babar Shaikh, F. Rabbani, Najibullah Safi, and Zia Dawar
Therapy and clinical trials: HDL-cholesterol and niacin therapy--past, present, and future, Salim S. Virani and Christie M. Ballantyne
Preoperative statin therapy decreases risk of postoperative renal insufficiency, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur Elayda, Shun Kohsaka, Wei Pan, Ross M. Reul, James M. Wilson, and Laura A. Petersen
Submissions from 2009
Incidental diagnosis of interrupted aortic arch in a 72-year-old man, Mahboob Alam, Leo Simpson, Salim S. Virani, Benjamin Cheong, Pranav Loyalka, and Andrew B. Civitello
Cardiac sarcoidosis: A clinical entity uncommonly recognized, Mahboob Alam, Salim S. Virani, Leo Simpson, Stephen B. Williams, and James M. Wilson
Images in echocardiography: A freely floating saphenous vein graft, Vijay G. Divakaran, W Ross Brown, and Salim S. Virani
Comparative perspectives in creating gender awareness: Stories from elementary mathematics classrooms in Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Gender and mathematics education: Lessons from Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Initiating change in mathematics classrooms, Anjum Halai
Initiating change in mathematics classrooms: lessons from Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Politics and practice of learning mathematics in multilingual classrooms: Lessons from Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Efficacy and tolerability of multidrug therapy for hypertriglyceridemia, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Vijay Nambi, Salim S. Virani, Danièle Zoch, Eric Y. Yang, Peter H. Jones, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Lipid management: Considerations in acute coronary syndrome, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Salim S. Virani, and Vijay Nambi
The Urban Health Program - The Aga Khan University Urban Health Program: an opportunity to engage in people-centred health and development, Fauziah Rabbani, Anwar Islam, Memon Y, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, and Franklin M M White
Culture and quality care perceptions in a Pakistani hospital., Fauziah Rabbani, Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Firdous Jahan, Nadir Ali Syed, Gregory Pappas, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Clinical significance, angiographic characteristics, and short-term outcomes in 30 patients with early coronary artery graft failure, Salim S. Virani, M Alam, C E. Mendoz, H Arora, A C. A C Ferreira, and E de Marchena
Obesity: An independent predictor of in-hospital postoperative renal insufficiency among patients undergoing cardiac surgery?, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur A. Elayda, Wei Pan, Laura A. Petersen, James M. Wilson, James T. Willerson, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Clinical implications of JUPITER (Justification for the Use of statins in Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin) in a U.S. population insights from the ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) study, Eric Y. Yang, Vijay Nambi, Zhengzheng Tang, Salim S. Virani, Eric Boerwinkle, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Brad C. Astor, Thomas H. Mosley, Josef Coresh, and Lloyd Chambless
Submissions from 2008
Contrast echocardiography for right-sided heart conditions: Case reports and literature review, Harvinder Arora, Salim S. Virani, Leo Simpson, and Raymond F. Stainback
Teacher empowerment through collaborative action research: Concepts, possibilities and challenges, Anjum Halai, Sherwin Rodrigues, and Tauseef Akhlaq
Long-term clinical outcome of coronary artery stenting or coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with multiple-vessel disease, Shun Kohsaka, Masashi Goto, Salim S. Virani, Vei-Vei Lee, Noriaki Aoki, MacArthur A. Elayda, Ross M. Reul, and James M. Wilson
Prosthesis-patient mismatch affects long-term survival after mechanical valve replacement, Shun Kohsaka, Shaulnie Mohan, Salim S. Virani, Vei-Vei Lee, Ariadna Contreras, George J. Reul, and Stephanie A. Coulter
Rescue percutaneous coronary intervention for graft failure immediately after coronary artery bypass grafting: Case report and review of literature, Stewart Levine, Cesar E. Mendoza, Salim S. Virani, Glenn Barquet, Joshua Purow, Kushagra Katariya, and Tomas Salerno
Lipid management: Considerations in acute coronary syndrome, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Salim S. Virani, and Vijay Nambi
Perspectives on domestic violence: case study from Karachi, Pakistan., F. Rabbani, F. Qureshi, and N. Rizvi
Using SERVQUAL for assessing and improving patient satisfaction at a rural health facility in Pakistan., B. T. Shaikh, N. Mobeen, Iqbal Azam Syed, and F. Rabbani
The association between neighborhood socioeconomic status and exposure to supermarkets and fast food outlets, Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic, John C. Spence, Kim D. Raine, Carl Amrhein, Nairne Cameron, Vladimir Yasenovskiy, Nicoleta Cutumisu, Eric Hemphill, and Julia Healy
How to identify patients with vulnerable plaques, Salim S. Virani and Christie M. Ballantyne
Reply, Salim S. Virani and Christie M. Ballantyne
Does preoperative statin therapy improve outcomes in patients undergoing isolated cardiac valve surgery?, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur Elayda, Ross M. Reul, James M. Wilson, and Christie Ballantyne
Preoperative statin therapy is not associated with a decrease in the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi, Mehdi Razavi, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur Elayda, James M. Wilson, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Novel markers of inflammation in atherosclerosis, Salim S. Virani, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, and Vijay Nambi
Submissions from 2007
Poor glycaemic control is the major factor associated with increased frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with diabetes mellitus, Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, Firdous Jahan, Fauziah Rabbani, Najmul Islam, Masood H. Khan, and Rana Masood
Boys are better mathematicians! gender issues in mathematics classrooms in Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Developing research and scholarship at AKU-IED: Possibilities and challenges, Anjum Halai
Learning mathematics in English medium classrooms in Pakistan: Implications for policy and practice, Anjum Halai
Status of teachers and teaching: Conclusions, implications and recommendations, Anjum Halai
Teacher status : A symposium, Anjum Halai
Management of failed thrombolysis after acute myocardial infarction: An overview of current treatment options, Cesar E. Mendoza, Mehul R. Bhatt, Salim S. Virani, Alan H. Schob, Stewart Levine, Alexandre C. Ferreira, and Eduardo de Marchena
Reviewing the application of the balanced scorecard with implications for low-income health settings, F Rabbani, Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Gregory Pappas, Mat Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Gender sensitization among health providers and communities through transformative learning tools: experiences from Karachi, Pakistan., Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Sayyeda Reza, Masood Afzal, and Fauziah Rabbani
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken-heart syndrome, Salim S. Virani, A Nasser Khan, Cesar E. Mendoza, Alexandre C. Ferreira, and Eduardo de Marchena
Left main coronary artery stenosis: Factors predicting cardiac events in patients awaiting coronary surgery, Salim S. Virani, Cesar E. Mendoza, Alexandre C. Ferreira, and Eduardo de Marchena
The role of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 as a marker for atherosclerosis, Salim S. Virani and Vijay Nambi
Cor triatriatum dexter, Tharak R. Yarrabolu, Leo Simpson, Salim S. Virani, Harvinder Arora, Joseph Navarijo, and Raymond F. Stainback
Submissions from 2006
Learning mathematical rules with reasoning, Shahida Baig and Anjum Halai
Ethics dilemmas in qualitative research, Anjum Halai
Mentoring in-service teachers: Issues of role diversity, Anjum Halai
Initiating change in classrooms: Pathways and challenges for East African schools, Anjum Halai, Ruth Otienoh, Zeenat Shariff, and Naomi Swat
Living with globalization: a menace or a chance?, Fauziah Rabbani, Babar T Shaikh, and Sarah Wamala
Distribution and circumstances of injuries in squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan., Narjis Rizvi, Stephen Luby, Iqbal Azam Syed, and Fauziah Rabbani
Health workers for change: a tool for promoting behaviour change among health providers., Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Fauziah Rabbani, and M. Rahim
Developing professional development teacher, Fauzia Shamim and Anjum Halai
Typhoid fever in children: some epidemiological considerations from Karachi, Pakistan., Fahad Javaid Siddiqui Javaid Siddiqui, Fauziah Rabbani, Rumina Hasan, Shaikh Qamaruddin Nizami, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Food deserts in the prairies? supermarket accessibility and neighborhood need in Edmonton, Canada, Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic, John C. Spence, and Carl Amrhein
Submissions from 2005
Correlation between apoptotic endothelial microparticles and serum interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein in healthy men, Julio A. Chirinos, Juan P. Zambrano, Salim S. Virani, Joaquin J. Jimenez, Wenche Jy, Eugene Ahn, Lawrence L. Horstman, Agustin Castellanos, Robert J. Myerburg, and Yeon S. Ahn
The action research interest group: Building capacity for learning communities, Shahzad Mithani, Debbie Kramer-Roy, Bernadette L. Dean, and Anjum Halai
Medical education and training: responding to community needs., Fauziah Rabbani, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Qamar Mahmood, Kausar S. Khan Ms, Syed Muhammad Israr, and Yousuf Memon
Medical education: let's change the emphases, Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Fauziah Rabbani
Health management information system: a tool to gauge patient satisfaction and quality of care., Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Fauziah Rabbani
Off-pump coronary artery grafting in patients with left main coronary artery disease, Salim S. Virani, Pierluca Lombardi, Hassan Tehrani, Saqib Masroor, Said Yassin, Tomas Salerno, Hooshang Bolooki, and Kushagra Katariya
Submissions from 2004
Postprandial hypertriglyceridemia increases circulating levels of endothelial cell microparticles, Alexandre C. Ferreira, Arley A. Peter, Armando J. Mendez, Joaquín J. Jimenez, Lucia M. Mauro, Julio A. Chirinos, Reyan Ghany, Salim S. Virani, Santiago Garcia, and Lawrence L. Horstman
Action research to study classroom impact: Is it possible?, Anjum Halai
Teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms, Anjum Halai
Impact : Making a difference, Anjum Halai and Jane Rarieya
Percutaneous coronary intervention before noncardiac surgery: More threat than benefit?, Cesar E. Mendoza, Neerav Shah, and Salim S. Virani
Noncardiac surgery following percutaneous coronary intervention, Cesar E. Mendoza, Salim S. Virani, Neerav Shah, Alexandre C. Ferreira, and Eduardo de Marchena
The district health system: a challenge that remains., Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Fauziah Rabbani
Graves' disease and pulmonary hypertension: report of 2 cases, Salim S. Virani, Cesar E. Mendoza, Alexandre C. Ferreira, and Eduardo de Marchena
Submissions from 2003
Tuberculosis: do we know enough? a study of patients and their families in an out-patient hospital setting in Karachi, Pakistan, S.S Ali, Fauziah Rabbani, U.N Siddiqui, A.H Zaidi, A Sophie, S.J Virani, and N.A Younus
Planning impact research: Issues and dilemmas, Anjum Halai
Ongoing impact of the “advanced diploma in education: Mathematics”, Anjum Halai, Munira Amirali, Nadeem Kirmani, and Razia Fakir Mohammad
A symposium on impact research: Issues and dilemmas, Anjum Halai, John Retallick, Fauzia Shamim, and Iffat Farah
Submissions from 2002
The development and usability of a system for environmental and health indicators: a case study, Carl Amrhein and David Buckeridge
Effect of motor vehicle emissions on respiratory health in an urban area, David L Buckeridge, Richard Glazier, Bart J Harvey, Michael Escobar, Carl Amrhein, and John Frank
Making health data maps: a case study of a community/university research collaboration, David L Buckeridge, Robin Mason, Ann Robertson, John William Frank, Richard Glazier, Lorraine Purdon, Carl Amrhein, Nita Chaudhuri, Esme Fuller-Thomson, Peter Gozdyra, David Hulchanski, Byron Moldofsky, Maureen Thompson, and Robert Malcolm Wright
Developing taken as shared meanings in mathematics: Lessons from classrooms in Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Submissions from 2001
On becoming a “professional development teacher”: A case from Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Behind the counter: pharmacies and dispensing patterns of pharmacy attendants in Karachi., Fauziah Rabbani, F. H. Cheema, N. Talati, S. Siddiqui, S. Syed, S. Bashir, L. Z. Zuberi, A. Shamim, and Q. Mumtaz
New vistas in the therapeutic uses of aspirin, S. A. Saeed, M Atiq, Salim S. Virani, and A. H. Gilani
Urbanisation and public health: a review of the scientific literature, B. Cornelius Taylor, Yvonne Handajani, Susanne Jordan, G. Kohler, Ruediger Korff, Ulrich Laaser, A.F. Qureshi, Fauziah Rabbani, Narjis Rizvi, and Charles Surjadi
Submissions from 2000
Learning mathematics in groups: A coordination of psychological and sociological perspectives?, Anjum Halai
The minds of mothers: maternal mental health in an urban squatter settlement of Karachi., Fauziah Rabbani and Furqan Farooq Raja
Clinical spectrum of systemic lupus erythematosus at the Aga Khan University Hospital., K. Sulaiman, N. Sohail, A. A. Sheikh, F. Raza, F. Shahzad, A. Siddique, T. Shakir, and Fauziah Rabbani
Submissions from 1999
Mathematics education research project: Teacher development through action research, Anjum Halai
Views about women's mental health: study in a squatter settlement of Karachi., Fauziah Rabbani