ABSTRACT Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease which is initiated by T-cell dependent antigen activation that lead to nu immune response type. Tumor necrosis factor is the central cytokine in the AR pathogenesis. This research aimed to investigate the correlation between vitamin D, TNF-α and the clinical severity of rheumatoid arthritis. A cross sectional design was performed…
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the second commonest bacterial infection in Indonesian children after respiratory tract infection. In order to establish early diagnosis of UTI, it is important to recognize the risk factors of UTI in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between circumcision, personal hygiene, environmental sanitation, nutritional status, parents' educ…
Banana is a kind of fruit whose stability during storage is very short. After its ripe is over, physically the banana is very soft, with some black spot of growing the yeast over the skin. This kind of banana is already no longer acceptable as food. Actually this banana is containing high glucose content which is useful for the growth of yeasts. The object of this study is to use this over ripe…
Background: Recent studies have shown significantly the effect of isolated galactomannan of coconut kernel in the lowering of the cholesterol content of the animal as well as the human serum. Those studies used the isolated galactomannan from the residual of coconut kernel of the households. However, the residual of kernel coconut is also available in the oil factory known as "bungkil". The pur…
Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) is expected to be achieved through Universal Salt lodization (USI) where at least 90 percent of households consume iodised salt that contained sufficient iodine i.e. 30 ppm of potassium iodate. At national level, simple semi quantitative test kit is used to estimate and monitor of iodine content in salt at household level. However, result of esti…
Due to the high price of rice, some people used the used rice known as “beras aking” as staple food replacing the rice. The rice was cooked similar to the cooking of original rice. In its preparation to become aking, the cooked rice firstly is dried the sun until the rice becoming dry. Consequently, the appearance of the rice is brownness color and sometime already grown by the mold. Howeve…