Marwa A. Meguid
Ain Shams University
17 Papers
60 Citations
Marwa A. Meguid is an academic researcher from Ain Shams University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Global Assessment of Functioning & Schizophrenia. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 17 publications.
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Papers
Correlates of psychiatric co-morbidity in a sample of Egyptian patients with bipolar disorder
Tarek Asaad,Tarek Okasha,Hisham Ramy,Mohamed Fekry,Nivert Zaki,Hanan Azzam,Menan A. Rabie,Soheir Elghoneimy,Marwa Sultan,Hani Hamed,Osama Refaat,Iman Shorab,Mahmoud Elhabiby,Tamer Elgweily,Hanan El-Shinnawy,Mohamed A. Nasr,Heba Fathy,Marwa A. Meguid,Doaa Nader,Doha El-Serafi,Dalia Enaba,Dina Ibrahim,Marwa El-Missiry,Nesreen Mohsen,Sherin Ahmed +24 more
TL;DR: Substance abuse followed by anxiety disorders was found to be the most common psychiatric comorbidity among bipolar patients in Cairo, Egypt, and family history of psychiatric disorders and substance abuse as well as current psychotic features were highly correlated with comorbridity.
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Duration of untreated psychosis in an Egyptian sample: Sociodemographic and clinical variables.
Tarek Okasha,Nivert Zaki,Marwa A. Meguid,Marwa El-Missiry,Walaa Sabry,Mostafa Kamel Ismaeil,Samar M Fouad +6 more
TL;DR: Investigating how certain illnesses, patient, socio-cultural risk factors and help-seeking behaviour are correlated with prolonged DUP in Egyptian patients with psychotic disorders found that age of patients, the age of onset, residence, being illiterate, the insidious mode of onset and the severity of illness as indicated by PANSS are among DUP predictors.
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Serum leptin level and its association with fatigue in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
TL;DR: Fatigue is highly prevalent in Egyptian patients with chronic HCV infection and leptin might play a role in the mediation of fatigue in those patients drawing attention to biological basis of one of the most common symptoms facing clinician dealing with this problem.
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Plasma brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in Egyptian children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between ADHD and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and found significantly elevated plasma BDNF levels in ADHD subjects in comparison with healthy subjects, but differences among the three subtypes of ADHD did not reach statistical significance.
Rates and profile of victimization in a sample of Egyptian patients with major mental illness.
Ahmed A. El Missiry,Marwa A. Meguid,Ahmed Abourayah,Marwa El Missiry,Mohamed Hossam,Hussien Elkholy,Afaf H. Khalil +6 more
TL;DR: Patients with major mental illness are susceptible to significant victimization and Clinicians should explore possible history of abuse or victimization in their patients, empower and support the victimized ones.
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