Objective The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome
among schizophrenia patients receiving antipsychotic monotherapy in Malaysia. Method A
cross-sectional study was conducted at multiple centres between June 2008 and September
2011. Two hundred and five patients who fulfilled the DSM IV-TR diagnostic criteria for
schizophrenia and who had been on antipsychotic medication for at least one year, were
screened for metabolic syndrome. Patients receiving a mood stabilizer were excluded from …

PURPOSE: Clonality detection through amplifying immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) gene
rearrangements by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a useful tool in diagnosis of various
B-lymphoid malignancies. Immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement can be an
optimal target for clonality detection in B-lymphoid malignancies. In the present study, we
evaluated the presence of IGH gene rearrangement in non B-cell haemato-oncologypatients
including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL), acute myeloblastic leukaemia …