Rizanda Machmud

Stakeholder Collaboration Model to empower Integrated Health education Centers for non-communicable Diseases: A Study in Bengkulu

Integrated Health Education Center for Non-communicable Disease (IHEC for NCDs) is a means for a community to participate in doing early detection, prevention, and control of non-communicable diseases. Stakeholders and society play very important role in empowering IHEC for NCDs. This study aims to develop a model of empowering IHEC for NCDs by increasing the role of stakeholders.

The effect of vitamin c supplementation on intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) concentration on male adolescent obesity in Padang

Method The randomized double blind controlled trial of 40 obese adolescent boys aged 14-18 years old were performed on March-May 2011. Subjects were classified into 2 groups, the Vitamin C 500 mg treatment group and the control group which got placebo, twice daily for 8 weeks. The ICAM-1 concentration of both groups was examined before and after the treatment. The data were analyzed with paired sample t-test and independant t-test with significant degree p<0.05.

The effect of Vitamin C supplementation toward high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hsC-RP) level on male adolescent obesity in Padang

Background Prevalence of obesity in children and adolescent has significantly increased, it becomes a serious problem because of the overreleasing of interleukin-6 (IL-6), disruption on the oxidative balance, risk factor of getting cardiovascular disease with typically marked by elevation of the hight sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hsC-RP). On the way to decrease IL-6 release from the visceral adipose cell is by treating the oxidative stress with antioxidant agent, such as Vitamin C.