Pakistan Journal of Physiology

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Assessing and documenting professional attitude among undergraduate medical students

Tehseen Iqbal

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Cardiac autonomic neuropathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus and control subjects

Najla Shore, Miraa Qutab, Maham Ijaz, Taha Farooq, Nabiha Saeed, Rida Fatima, Hina Sikandar

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Prognostic categorization of primary myelofibrosis patients of Peshawar

Sidra Hamayun, Ghulam Farooq, Mohsin Ali, Alina Mehwish, Ghulam Rabbani Anwar, Muhammad Irfan Shereen

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Early postoperative complications of cataract surgery in diabetic patients

Sanam Munawar Ul Islam, Mukesh Pahuja, Azfar Ahmed Mirza, Mona Liza Mahesar, Ghazi Khan Maree, Urooj Bhatti

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Bitter coffee for sweet diabetes: a randomized controlled trial for treatment of type 2 diabetes with black coffee in Balb C albino mice

Jawaria Iftikhar, Uzma Naeem, Sadia Lodhi, Aamna Khokhar, Abdul Azeem, Mehwish Tayyab

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Trimester specific reference ranges of serum TSH, FT3 and FT4 during last semester of pregnancy

Abdul Rehman Khokhar, Abdul Majeed Cheema

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ATP levels and its degradation process as a post-mortem interval indicator

Usman Shahid Butt, Anum Iqbal, Sadia Zaheer, Shahid Nazir, Allah Rakha

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Association of headache with the duration of wearing face mask during COVID-19 pandemic

Kavita Bai, Ramesh Kumar, Urooj Bhatti, Keenjhar Rani, Mumtaz Ali Memon

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Serum Visfatin in non-obese male normal and coronary artery disease patients

Shaheena Naz, Attiqa Khalid, Ijlal Zehra, Zunairah Hamayun, Maria Gill, Hifza Noor Lodhi

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Clinical profile and outcome of acute kidney injury in patients with neonatal sepsis

Saima Bibi, Zaheer Abbas, Syed Yasir Hussain Gilani, Shawana Bibi, Mishal Maqbool, Salwa Anis

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Association between sitting time and neck-shoulder pain among office workers: a cross-sectional study

Huda Binte Ashfaq, Faiza Sharif, Ayesha Arooj, Ashfaq Ahmad

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Comparison of bone mineral density between type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic patients and its correlation with serum insulin, HbA1c and duration of illness in type 2 diabetic patients

Soban M. Daud, Burhan Rasheed, Saima Rasheed, Ameen Hamood Abdo Rageh, Faisal Masood

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Online versus conventional paper-based formative assessment: do they predict summative scores?

Fahad Azam, Khurram Irshad, Abida Shaheen, Hira Moin, Nismat Javed, Hania Ahmer

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Guidelines for Authors

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