International Research Journal of Biology and Biotechnology

Articles

• OBESITY TREATMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

  Mustafa Can Yılmaz

  Obesity is characterized with increased body fat compared to lean body mass and is a chronic disease caused by excess energy from the energy consumed by the body's nutrients. Obesity is a growing health problem of today's world. The prevalence of obesity has almost doubled between 1980 and 2008

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• THE IMPACT OF URINARY SCHISTOSOMIASIS ON JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN AGASSA

  Grace Enemona Adejoh

  Prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis among 136 students of junior secondary school Agassa in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State was assessed. In total 18 students was infected representing 13.2% prevalence. Highest prevalence (21.5%) was recorded among J.S.S. 1 boys and the least (6.3%)

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• COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INDOOR AIR MICROBIAL PROFILES IN TEACHING SPACES AT RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY

  Nwachukwu Ifeanyi Emmanuel

  The presence of bacteria in the indoor air poses a serious problem from the health and environmental point of view. Precise determination of various groups of indoor microbes is necessary in estimating the health hazard and to create standards for indoor air quality control. This is especially

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