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  1. Integrated population-development program performance: the Malaysian Felda experience
    Fong CO
    J Dev Areas, 1985 Jan;19(2):149-70.
    PMID: 12313937
  2. The Surgical Management of Ptosis
    Andrew Fong CH
    Med J Malaysia, 1976 Dec;31(2):140-147.
    PMID: 35008159
    No abstract available.
  3. Retinal Detachment - Review of 50 consecutive cases
    Yijendran M, Andrew Fong CH
    Med J Malaysia, 1976 Dec;31(2):128-132.
    PMID: 35008157
    No abstract available.
  4. The pterygium and mitomycin-C therapy
    Choon LK, Fong CY
    Med J Malaysia, 1976 Sep;31(1):69-72.
    PMID: 1023017
  5. Phthalates in children toys available in Malaysian market: Quantification and potential human health risk
    Praveena SM, Siok Fong C, Amaruddin AF
    J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol, 2021 10;213:105955.
    PMID: 34311089 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2021.105955
    In Malaysia, inexpensive toys are sold in various urban and rural shops. Although safety regulations for toys are available in Malaysia there are limited reports about the chemicals in toys. Thus, this study aimed to assess the levels of phthalates (bis-[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP], diethyl phthalate [DEP], diisobutyl phthalate [DiBP] and dibutyl phthalate [DBP]) in inexpensive toys sold at local markets in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and its health risks to children. All 30 toys analysed exceeded the European Union limit (0.1 % by mass) indicating that the phthalate used as plasticizers is still prominent in toys. Bis-[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate (DEHP) was the highest detected phthalate in toy sample which was manufactured in Malaysia and sold without Malaysian Conformity Mark. Significant association was found between phthalate levels and country, indicating a need to monitor and raise public awareness about potential toxic chemicals in inexpensive toys and children's products. There are few inexpensive toys that have a hazard index value of more than one, which is associated with developmental toxicity and causes developmental effects in children. Given the severity and complexity of these toys to children health, there is a need for regular monitoring and effective enforcements to develop an acceptable baseline level of children toys products manufactured in or imported to Malaysia. Furthermore, risk management efforts should also include all the stakeholders involved in toy production, policy makers as well as consumers to ensure only toy products with proper labels being sole and purchased.
  6. Lead in blood and hair of population near an operational and a proposed area for copper mining, Malaysia
    Mokhtar MB, Awaluddin AB, Fong CW, Woojdy WM
    Bull Environ Contam Toxicol, 1994 Jan;52(1):149-54.
    PMID: 8130410
  7. Fulltext Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in an Asian population: 1968-1992 time trends and ethnic differences in Singapore
    Seow A, Lee J, Sng I, Fong CM, Lee HP
    Cancer, 1996 May 1;77(9):1899-904.
    PMID: 8646691
    BACKGROUND: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has increased in incidence in many countries, particularly in the West. Advances in diagnostic methods and the understanding of the disease over time pose a challenge to the interpretation of these trends. The aim of this study was to determine if the disease has increased in Singapore, a newly industrialized Asian country, and to examine the possible factors that may account for any observed changes.
    METHODS: Data from the population-based Singapore Cancer Registry for the period 1968 to 1992 were reviewed to determine time trends based on sex and ethnic group. The Poisson regression model was fitted to the cross-tabulated data to obtain the adjusted incidence density ratios.
    RESULTS: A total of 1988 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were included in the analysis. There was an overall increase in incidence among both Chinese and Malaysians. However, the rate of increase was greater in females (age-standardized rate from 1.8 per 100,000 in 1968-1972 to 4.5 per 100,000 in 1988-1992) than in males (3.2 per 100,000 to 5.9 per 100,000 in the same time periods). Between ethnic groups, Malay females were at higher overall risk compared with their Chinese counterparts (incidence density ratio 1.32; 95% confidence interval, 1.08-1.61). Although a substantial proportion of patients diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease between 1968 and 1972 were reclassified on review, using present criteria, as having non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, it is unlikely that this, and other recent changes in histologic interpretation, could have accounted for an increase of this magnitude.
    CONCLUSIONS: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has increased in incidence among the Chinese and Malay populations in Singapore. The pattern of increase differs from that of the common cancer sites, and suggests the need to look for environmental and genetic factors that have not yet been elucidated.
  8. Fulltext A comparative study of machine learning techniques for suicide attempts predictive model
    Nordin N, Zainol Z, Mohd Noor MH, Lai Fong C
    Health Informatics J, 2021 3 23;27(1):1460458221989395.
    PMID: 33745355 DOI: 10.1177/1460458221989395
    Current suicide risk assessments for predicting suicide attempts are time consuming, of low predictive value and have inadequate reliability. This paper aims to develop a predictive model for suicide attempts among patients with depression using machine learning algorithms as well as presents a comparative study on single predictive models with ensemble predictive models for differentiating depressed patients with suicide attempts from non-suicide attempters. We applied and trained eight different machine learning algorithms using a dataset that consists of 75 patients diagnosed with a depressive disorder. A recursive feature elimination was used to reduce the features via three-fold cross validation. An ensemble predictive models outperformed the single predictive models. Voting and bagging revealed the highest accuracy of 92% compared to other machine learning algorithms. Our findings indicate that history of suicide attempt, religion, race, suicide ideation and severity of clinical depression are useful factors for prediction of suicide attempts.
  9. Fulltext Pregnancies after microinjection of human spermatozoa into human oocytes
    Rachagan SP, Fong CK, Hamzah H, Zaliha S, Tan TS, Yow J, et al.
    Med J Malaysia, 1997 Sep;52(3):295.
    PMID: 10968102
  10. Pattern of acute pelvic inflammatory disease in abortion-related admissions
    Sinnathuray TA, Yusof K, Palan VT, Fong CK, Adeep N, Chong CH, et al.
    Am J Obstet Gynecol, 1980 Dec 01;138(7 Pt 2):868-71.
    PMID: 7468674
    We evaluated 3,066 consecutive women admitted during 1 year to two major hospitals of Kuala Lumpur and the adjacent urban area of Malaysia. Indicators of acute pelvic inflammatory disease were more common among patients with induced abortions. PID was thought to be a major contributor to the higher costs associated with management of patients with induced abortions.
  11. Illegal abortion: an attempt to assess its cost to the health services and its incidence in the community
    Figà-Talamanca I, Sinnathuray TA, Yusof K, Fong CK, Palan VT, Adeeb N, et al.
    Int J Health Serv, 1986;16(3):375-89.
    PMID: 3733306
    This article describes a study designed to test a method for assessing the cost to the health services of illegally induced abortion and the feasibility of estimating the incidence of induced abortion by a field interviewing approach. The participating centers included three hospitals in Ankara, Turkey; three hospitals in Ibadan, Nigeria; one hospital in Caracas and one in Valencia, Venezuela; and two hospitals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hospitalized abortion cases were classified as induced or spontaneous or as "probably induced," "possibly induced," or "unknown" according to a classification scheme comprising certain medical criteria. The sociodemographic characteristics of induced and spontaneous abortion cases were subjected to discriminant function analysis and the discriminating variables best characterizing the induced versus the spontaneous abortion groups were identified for each center. On the basis of this analysis, the "probably" and "possibly" induced and "unknown" categories were further classified as induced or spontaneous abortion, with stated probabilities. Thus an overall estimate is made of the proportion of all hospitalized abortions that can be considered illegally induced outside the hospital. Selected results on costs of induced and spontaneous abortion are shown. The method further tested the feasibility of obtaining valid survey data on abortion from the communities studied by re-interviewing the women hospitalized for induced and spontaneous abortion six months later in their homes. This exercise showed a degree of under-reporting of abortion that varied widely among centers, even among women who had admitted illegal induction at the time of hospitalization. The feasibility of estimating the incidence of illegal abortion by field studies is discussed in the light of these findings.
  12. Microstructural abnormalities found in uncinate fasciculus and superior cerebellar tracts in children with global developmental delay: a feasibility study
    Ramli N, Yap A, Muridan R, Seow P, Rahmat K, Fong CY, et al.
    Clin Radiol, 2020 01;75(1):77.e15-77.e22.
    PMID: 31668796 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2019.09.134
    AIM: To evaluate the microstructural abnormalities of the white matter tracts (WMT) using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in children with global developmental delay (GDD).

    MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixteen children with GDD underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cross-sectional DTI. Formal developmental assessment of all GDD patients was performed using the Mullen Scales of Early Learning. An automated processing pipeline for the WMT assessment was implemented. The DTI-derived metrics of the children with GDD were compared to healthy children with normal development (ND).

    RESULTS: Only two out of the 17 WMT demonstrated significant differences (p<0.05) in DTI parameters between the GDD and ND group. In the uncinate fasciculus (UF), the GDD group had lower mean values for fractional anisotropy (FA; 0.40 versus 0.44), higher values for mean diffusivity (0.96 versus 0.91×10-3 mm2/s) and radial diffusivity (0.75 versus 0.68×10-3 mm2/s) compared to the ND group. In the superior cerebellar peduncle (SCP), mean FA values were lower for the GDD group (0.38 versus 0.40). Normal myelination pattern of DTI parameters was deviated against age for GDD group for UF and SCP.

    CONCLUSION: The UF and SCP WMT showed microstructural changes suggestive of compromised white matter maturation in children with GDD. The DTI metrics have potential as imaging markers for inadequate white matter maturation in GDD children.

  13. Evaluation of an Initiation Regimen of Warfarin for International Normalized Ratio Target 2.0 to 3.0
    Mohamed S, Mei Fong C, Jie Ming Y, Naila Kori A, Abdul Wahab S, Mohd Ali Z
    J Pharm Technol, 2021 Dec;37(6):286-292.
    PMID: 34790965 DOI: 10.1177/87551225211034175
    Background: he number of patients on warfarin therapy is rising steadily. Although warfarin is beneficial, it carries a high risk of bleeding, especially if the international normalized ratio (INR) values exceed 3.0. Currently, no warfarin initiation regimens have been developed for the Asian population, especially for Malaysians. Objective: This article describes the efficacy and safety of a new initiation regimen for warfarin among warfarin-naive patients. Method: Data were retrospectively collected from the ambulatory and inpatient settings. Results: A total of 165 patients who each had a target INR of 2.0 to 3.0 were included in the study. The mean age was 57.2 years and 94 patients were male. A total of 108 patients used Regimen 1 (5 mg/5 mg/3mg) and the rest of the patients used Regimen 2 (5 mg/3 mg/3 mg). Most patients used warfarin either for atrial fibrillation (52.1%) or for venous thromboembolism (29.7%). Overall, 88 of the patients had INR values above 50% from the baseline on Day 4. Additionally, 13 patients had INR values of >3.2, which required withholding and lower dose of warfarin. The predicted weekly maintenance warfarin dose (23 ± 0.5 mg/week) was found to have correlated closely with the actual maintenance dose (22.8 ± 0.5 mg/week; r 2 = 0.75). Nearly two thirds (70.3%) of the patients achieved the target INR on Day 11. Conclusion: The warfarin initiation regimens in this study was simple, safe, and suitable to be used in both ambulatory and inpatient settings for managing warfarin therapy.
  14. Fulltext MECP2 mutations in Malaysian Rett syndrome patients
    Fong CB, Thong MK, Sam CK, Mohamed Noor MN, Ariffin R
    Singapore Med J, 2009 May;50(5):529-33.
    PMID: 19495527
    Rett syndrome (RS) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by normal neurological development followed by progressive developmental regression. The X-linked dominant inheritance of RS has been mapped to the gene that encodes the methyl-CpG-binding protein-2 (MECP2) at Xq28. In the present study, denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) was used to detect mutations in the MECP2 gene in 20 Malaysian RS patients.
  15. The potential roles of lncRNA TINCR in triple negative breast cancer
    Azman AA, Siok-Fong C, Rajab NF, Md Zin RR, Ahmad Daud NN, Mohamad Hanif EA
    Mol Biol Rep, 2023 Sep;50(9):7909-7917.
    PMID: 37442895 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-023-08661-5
    Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive intrinsic breast cancer subtype characterized by the lack of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and low levels of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). The complex nature of TNBC has resulted in little therapeutic progress for the past several decades. The standard of care remains the FEC cocktail (5-fluorouracil (5-FU), epirubicin and cyclophosphamide). However, early relapse and metastasis in TNBC patients persists in causing dismal clinical outcomes. Due to complex heterogeneity features of TNBC, identifying the biomarker associated to the chemoresistance remains a challenge. The emergence of the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) as a potential signature may have proven to be a new deterrent to diagnostic and treatment options. Previous studies unveiled the associations of lncRNA in the development of TNBCs whereby the aggressiveness and response to therapies may be associated by the abrogation of the molecular mechanism lncRNA. Terminal differentiation induced ncRNA (TINCR) is a lncRNA which have been linked with many cancers including TNBC. The expression and behavior of TINCR may exert unfavorable outcome in TNBCs. Nevertheless, the underlying molecular mechanism of TINCR in driving chemoresistance in TNBC is not well understood. This review will highlight the potential molecular mechanisms of TINCR in TNBC chemoresistance and how it can serve as a future potential prognostic and therapeutic target for a better treatment intervention.
  16. Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against Chlamydia pneumoniae in Chinese, Malays and Asian Indians in Singapore
    Koh WP, Taylor MB, Hughes K, Chew SK, Fong CW, Phoon MC, et al.
    Int J Epidemiol, 2002 Oct;31(5):1001-7.
    PMID: 12435775 DOI: 10.1093/ije/31.5.1001
    BACKGROUND: Chlamydia pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes respiratory infections, is probably under-diagnosed. There is also interest in its possible role in the aetiology of coronary heart disease. This is the first population-based seroprevalence survey of C. pneumoniae infection in Singapore.

    METHODS: A random sample of 1,068 people aged 18-69 years was selected from the participants of the Singapore National Health Survey conducted in 1998. Sera and data on certain clinical measurements and conditions had been collected. IgG antibodies for C. pneumoniae were detected using an indirect microimmunofluorescence test and positivity graded. Seropositivity was defined as IgG titre >/=1:16.

    RESULTS: There were no statistically significant differences in the prevalence rates of seropositivity to C. pneumoniae for age group 18-69 years among the three ethnic groups, i.e. Chinese (males 76.7%, females 68.3%), Malays (males 75.4%, females 59.1%), and Asian Indians (males 74.6%, females 59.4%). The seropositivity rate for people aged 18-69 years in Singapore was 75.0% for males and 65.5% for females (difference of 9.5%, P < 0.001). In both genders combined, seropositivity increased from 46.5% in the age group 18-29 to reach a plateau of 78.9% in the age group 40-49, which remained stable to 60-69 years. There was no association of seropositivity with smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension or body mass index after adjustment for age and gender.

    CONCLUSION: The high prevalence rates in our study population and the higher rate in males compared to females are consistent with studies from other parts of the world. No significant difference in prevalence rates was observed among Chinese, Malays and Indians. The pattern of rising and levelling off of seropositivity with age suggests that C. pneumoniae infection occurs early in life, and in older ages the high level of seropositivity is probably maintained by re-infections or chronic infections. Chlamydia pneumoniae infection was not found to be associated with the cardiovascular risk factors examined.
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