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Original Articles

Salt taste sensation in wistar rats consuming salt solutions of different molarity                                                                        1

Heydarpour Fereidoun, Rostami Ahmad, Heydarpour Pouria

Smoking and its relationship with blood pressure, blood glucose and blood parametes in patients with coronary heart disease                                                                                                                                                                                              5

Syed Tousif Ahmed, Muhammad Asif Memon

Role of calcium channel antagonism in vasodilator effects of 17β-estradiol                                                                                     8

Nazir Ahmed Shah, Hafeezullah, Salahuddin Qureshi, Muhammad Aslam Abbasi, Muhammad Hanif Sheikh, Dilip Kumar Rohra

An early diagnosis of foetal distress by estimating the maternal blood gas levels during intrapartum period                         13

Nusrat Zareen, Rukhsana Rubeen, Muhammad Saleem Khanzada, Zakir Jalal Khanzada, Zakia Zaheen, Syed Touseef Ahmed

Low pressure glaucoma                                                                                                                                                                            17

Farrukh Majeed, Shoaib Tauheed, Iram Saddiqa Aamir, Alina Atif, Rehana Majeed

Serum homocysteine concentrations in patients with hypertension                                                                                                    21

Alina Atif, Muhammad Atif Rizvi, Shoaib Tauheed, Irum Aamir, Farrukh Majeed, Khalid Siddiqui, Sadaf Khan

Usefulness of pulse oximetry in assessment of dyspnoea in asthma                                                                                                23

Syed Hafeezul Hassan, Sikandar Ali Sheikh, M. M. Feisal Subhan Beg

Evaluation of 12-lead electrocardiogram (ecg) in athletes and non-athletes in Zaria, Nigeria                                                   27

A. Lawan, M.A. Ali, S.S. Dan Bauchi

Review Article

Pattern identification of obstructive and restrictive ventilatory impairment through flow volume curves                          30

Ashraf Husain, Syed Shahid Habib

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