The Journal of IMA最新文献

{"title":"Assalaamu alaykum.","authors":"Hossam E Fadel","doi":"10.5915/42-3-6894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5915/42-3-6894","url":null,"abstract":"A M Me em mb be er rs s a an nd d J JI IM MA A R Re ea ad de er rs s: : The scientific presentations at the last IMANA conference, held in Istanbul, Turkey, were very informative. Approximately 170 members attended the meeting and benefitted from these presentations. What about the remainder of IMANA member-ship? Should not the presenters spend a little more time and effort and put their presentations in the format of manuscripts to be published in JIMA so that they will be available to all members and enable them to benefit from the expertise of their col-leagues? This will also make their presentations accessible to all those who explore the internet, as the articles are posted online on at the JIMA web site, jima.imana.org. In this issue, our new president, Dr. Abida Haque, addresses the membership enumerating the achievements and future plans of IMANA. We all should express our thanks to her and the other executive committee members for their work for the advancement of IMANA and pray to Allah ‫ﷻ‬ for guidance and bles s ing their work. We also publish a position paper issued by IMANA's Public Health Committee, under the leadership of Dr. Mohamed Haq, on the need to eliminate secondhand smoking from Islamic campuses. In this issue, Drs. Rhami Khorfan and Aasim Padela discuss in detail the permissibility of abortion when the pregnant woman's life is in danger. Abortion for this indication is acceptable in Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam. However, in Catholicism this permissibility is limited to situations where sacrificing fetal life is an indirect result of the procedure, for example removing the fallopian tube in tubal pregnancy or abortion complicating a surgical procedure for treatment of a potentially fatal condition for example appendicitis, peritonitis. The authors focus on the process of bioethical deliberation in these three religious traditions and discuss the different concepts that each of these faith groups uses to justify abortion in this circumstance. Islamic scholars differ to some extent on what situations make abortion before 120 days of conception, that is 19 weeks after the first day of the last menstrual period, permissible. However, they all agree that it is prohibited after 120 days. The only exception is when the woman's life is in peril. With modern advances in maternal fetal medicine, this situation is fortunately becoming very rare. In many cases, the pregnancy …","PeriodicalId":89859,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of IMA","volume":"42 3","pages":"93-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/07/6b/jima-42-3-6894.PMC3708681.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31589224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eliminate Second-hand Smoking from Islamic Campuses in North America.","authors":"Mohamed Haq, Ashraf Sufi, Abida Haque, Sheik Hassan, Hafizur Rehman, Fadia Abaza, Azher Quader, Azhar Syed, Osama Saeedi","doi":"10.5915/42-3-5191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5915/42-3-5191","url":null,"abstract":"Second-hand smoking (passive smoking or environmental smoke exposure) refers to air inhaled by a nonsmoker that is contaminated by smoke released from a burning cigarette or in the exhaled air of a person smoking a cigarette. More than 4,000 chemicals, including at least 43 known cancer-causing agents, have been identified from environmental smoke.1 In 1993, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) classified environmental smoke as a Class A carcinogen.","PeriodicalId":89859,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of IMA","volume":"42 3","pages":"97-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/38/76/jima-42-3-5191.PMC3708673.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31589227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk Factors for Stroke","authors":"M. Saad, Fareed K. Suri, Z. Ali, A. Qureshi","doi":"10.29688/MHJ.200707.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29688/MHJ.200707.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Cerebrovascular Disease (CVD) or Stroke (Cerebrovascular Accident, CVA, or Apoplexy) has been one of the leading causes of death worldwide. It is also the second most common cause of neurologic disability after Alzheimer's disease and remains the major reason of institutional placement for loss of independence among adults. The etiology and pathophysiology of CVD are complex and multifactorial. The aim of the present study is to investigate the interrelationship between some candidate risk factors and stroke incidences among different age groups. The results demonstrated and/or confirmed the associations between hypertension and stroke incidence. More significantly, the data suggested that body height, especially in females, was inversely associated with stroke incidence for individuals from age 40 to 60. High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) appeared to play a protective role in stroke. In addition, the study revealed a circumstantial association between uric acid and stroke incidence. New findings obtained regarding the risk factors for stroke incidence could facilitate the identification of individuals at increased risk of the disease. To comprehend the risk factor basis of stroke would have immediate clinical and public health benefits by guiding novel therapeutic approaches, aiding new drug discovery, and suggesting an appropriate life style for those at risk.","PeriodicalId":89859,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of IMA","volume":"33 1","pages":"47-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69283886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}