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  1. Ngeow YF
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11(1):75-76.
    Fragmentary data from reported cases show that STDs are second only to malaria in number and are more prevalent than typhoid, cholera and infectious hepatitis put together. There is lack of priority in the allocation of funding for control of STDs presently.
  2. Ng TS
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11:12-15.
  3. Cheong I
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11:92-93.
    5% of hospital admissions in Malaysia each year consist of patients suffering from renal diseases; from these 600 new cases of chronic renal failure will be diagnosed. The common causes of chronic renal failure in Malaysia in order of frequency are chronic glomerulonephritis, diabetic nephropathy, obstructive uropathy, malignant hypertension, chronic pyelonephritis, SLE nephritis and gouty nephropathy. Prevention of renal diseases require good control of the underlying conditions.
  4. Khalid BAK
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11(1):94-95.
    The problem of diabetes is large unknown due to lack of good epidemiological studies. The author's own studies showed a prevalence rate, in the Malays, of less than 1.0% in remote rural areas, 3.9% in a village close to Kuala Lumpur, and 3.0% for Malays working in a railway yard in Kuala Lumpur. The prevalence rate for the Chinese was 4.9% in the same survey, and for the Indian it was 16.0%. A survey in GHKL showed that 17.9% of the patients admitted for a month period in 1986 were due to diabetes and its complications. Majority of diabetes in Malaysia are non-insulin-dependent type.
  5. Kasmini K
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11:18-21.
  6. Quek DKL
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11(1):90-91.
    Cardiovascular disease has been the premier cause of hospital-registered deaths in Malaysia for the past 8 years. Among these reported deaths, 31% were caused by coronary heart disease in 1982. A healthy lifestyle to control the coronary risk factors would help to reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease in future.
  7. Doraisamy G
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11(1):77-78.
  8. Dharan RS
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11(3):28-30.
  9. Im LH
    Family Practitioner, 1988;11:17-17.
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