Dr. Sadia Afzal

Research

1. Sadia Afzal, Aziza Khanam and M.S.A. Zuberi (2001). Antioxidant vitamins in iron deficiency anemia. Pakistan Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 18, July (2); 1-6

2. Sadia Afzal, Aziza Khanam and Dr Ejaz Ahmed. Serum vitamin D in osteoarthritis (2012). Medical Forum ,Vol. 23, No 2; 3-5.(PMDC indexed, HEC recognized, z category)

3. Sadia Afzal, Aziza Khanam and Dr. Ejaz Ahmed (2011). Serum estrogen and interleukin-6 levels in postmenopausal female osteoarthritis patients. PJPS, volume 24 (2); 217-219. (Impact factor 0.6, PMDC ,Pubmed indexed, HEC recognized, w category ISI Indexed)

4. Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh and Aziza Khanam (2014).Osteoarthritis in postmenopausal women .World Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2(1):49-51. (Impact factor 2.8)

5. Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Ambreen Hafeez, and Ejaz Ahmed (2014). Clinical Study on Serum Nitric oxide levels in Osteoarthritis and Structure-Based Drug Design of New Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase inhibitors. World Journal of Pharmaceutical Science, 2(2):137-143. (Impact factor 2.8)

6. Sadia Afzal and Aziza Khanam (2014). Evaluation and status of nitrite in patients with osteoarthritis. International Journal of Advances in Pharmacy, Biology and Chemistry, 3(2):245-249. (Impact Factor 5.5)

7. Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Ambreen Hafeez, Muhammad Sameer Qureshi, Fouzia Imtiaz, Zeba Haque (2014). Postural.risk factors for osteoarthritis in Pakistani women. International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 1 (4):46-49.

8. Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammad Shahid Hussain, Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Zubair Zaidi. Antibiotic sensitivity of Pathogens of Urinary Tract Infection among adult Females in Karachi.(2014). Infectious diseases journal of Pakistan, 23(03):718-721. (PMDC Indexed, HEC recognized, y category)

9. Ejaz Ahmed, M .Shahid Hussain, Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Mehreen Ejaz. Urinary Tract Bacterial Pathogens and their Sensitivity Pattern. Journal of Rawalpindi medical college (2014);18(2):263-266 (PMDC indexed).

10. Fauzia Imtiaz, Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Shabnum Hasan, Ejaz Ahmed. Obesity: a risk factor for infertility among Pakistani male population. Rawal medical journal ( 2015) ; 40(2): 152-154.(PMDC indexed).

11. Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Fauzia Imtiaz, Shabnum Hasan, Zia Ikramuddin. Effect of aromatase inhibitors on early stage breast cancer and frequency of joint symptoms in postmenopausal women .Pakistan Journal of Pathology (2017) ; vol 28 (1): 34-38.( (PMDC indexed).

12. Muhammad Bilal Azmi1 , Shamim A. Qureshi , Fauzia Imtiaz , Ahmed Moiz , Hina Akram Mudassir, Amna Nayyar , Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh , Uzma Imran and Arisha Salman. Categorization of relative risk of diseases with relation to stress, body mass index and anthropometric markers: A cross-sectional study in general population of Karachi, Pakistan. International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (2017); Vol. 9(5), pp. 51-60 (.impact factor 2.3)

13. Tehseen Iqbal, Syed Danish Haseen Ahmed, Sadia Ikhlaq Sheikh, Fauzia Imtiaz and Muhammad Ahsan. Serum prolactin: Biochemical parameters for assessing disease severity among rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythromatosis. Medical Forum (2017) ; vol. 28 (8), pp 57-60. .(PMDC indexed, HEC recognized, z category)

14. Muhammad Ahsan1, Muhammad Bilal Azmi, Syed Danish Haseen Ahmed,

Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Hina Akram Mudassir, Tehseen Iqbal and Fauzia Imtiaz.. Homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance in non-diabetic heart failure patients: A case-control investigation at tertiary care Hospitals of Karachi. Pak. J. Pharm. Sci., Vol.31, No.2(Suppl), March 2018, pp.719-725.

15. Nighat Mirza, Syed M Jahangir Ashraf, Zia Ikram, Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Mnahil Akmal. Junk food consumption, awareness and its health consequences among undergraduates of a medical university. Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences. (2018) ,vol 12(2):42-47.

16. Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Hina Abbas ,Nighat Mirza. Cytokine and hormonal profile in osteoarthritis subjects. J Med Sci 2019; 27: (1) 38-41.

17. Sadia Afzal, Muhammad Ahsan, Aisha Abdul Haq, Asim Abid Minhas. Patient Participation in Diabetic Care: Knowledge, Practice, Implementation and Attitude of Diabetic Patients at Civil Hospital, Karachi. International Archives of Biomedical and clinical Research 2020; 6 (1) : BC1-BC4.

18. Nighat Mirza, Sadia Ikhlaque Sheikh, Meraj Rahim, Arif Ali, Noor-ul-Sahar Khan, Zainab Bibi. frequency and socio-demographic determinants of depression among adult women . J Med Sci 2020 Jan;28(1):10-15.

19. Sadia Ikhlaq sheikh, Zehra manzoor. “Oxidative Stress and PON1 (L55M) Polymorphism: Potential Risk Factors for Osteoarthritis” (in process), submitted in JPMA.