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ArticleAsian Pacific journal of tropical biomedicine2014

Evaluation of leptin, interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha in serum of malaria patients as prognostic markers of treatment outcome.

Mariam Abdulrhman Al-Fadhli, Mohammad Ahmed Saraya, Jafar Abdulrida Qasem

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Article in Asian Pacific journal of tropical biomedicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Cytokines in Inflammatory Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  3. Leptin Functions in Infectious Diseases.Frontiers in immunology · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mariam Abdulrhman Al-FadhliDepartment of Medicine, Infectious Disease Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait.
Mohammad Ahmed SarayaDepartment of Medicine, Infectious Disease Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait ; Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.
Jafar Abdulrida QasemDepartment of Applied Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Public authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait.
Ministry of Health · KWPublic Authority for Applied Education and Training · KWZagazig University · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo analyze serum leptin levels in patients with malaria falciparum and compare them with healthy controls and correlate with development and outcome of malaria infection.

methodsSixty cases of malaria falciparum were included in this study as patients. Thirty healthy individuals of comparable age, racial and body mass index were taken as controls. All patients were diagnosed by clinical picture and the presence of malaria parasites in blood film. Estimation of liver function test, kidney function test, complete blood count, fasting blood sugar, fasting serum insulin, pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) and interleukin 1 (IL1), estimation of morning serum leptin and calculation of body mass index (kg/m(2)) were done in both groups on the day of admission, on discharge and 7 d after discharge.

resultsAt admission, leptin levels were significantly higher in patients group than in control while fasting serum insulin levels were not significantly different between the two groups. There were significant increases as regard to TNFα and IL1 in malaria patients. Significant differences were observed between the control and the patient group for leptin, TNFα and IL1 at the time of admission and discharge. After discharge for 7 d, a significant decline in serum leptin levels, TNFα and IL1 in the patients group was observed as compared with time of admission and time of discharge, a positive correlation between serum leptin levels and TNFα and IL1.

conclusionsLeptin hormone level might play an important role in development and outcome of malaria infection.

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IL-1KuwaitLeptinMalariaTumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα)

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PMID25182944
PMCPMC3994352
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