Dr. Zareen Kiran

Research

1. Impact of fluid consumption on serum copeptin levels among diabetes mellitus patients with progressive diabetic nephropathy. Noor T, Jamil A, Afnan HB, Kiran Z, Khan MT, Hanif F. Rawal Medical Journal. 2025 Mar 4;50(1):87-91.
2. Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients with Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders at Tertiary Care Hospital, Karachi. Dass RJ, Kiran Z, Baloch AA, Shaikh
   WA. J Islamabad Med Dental Coll. 2024; 13i(Suppl.): 542-547
3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35787/jimdc.v13i(Suppl.).1309
4. Comparison of Factors Influencing Gestational Outcomes in Healthy Versus Hypothyroid Women from Karachi, Pakistan. Kiran Z, Khoja A, Khushk IA, Sheikh A, Islam N. Arch Iran Med. 2024 Aug 1;27(8):421-426. http://doi.org/10.34172/aim.28564
5. Safety and efficacy of dapagliflozin in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus during fasting in the month of Ramadan: an experience from tertiary care
   hospital. Baloch AA, Shabir KU, Kiran Z, Fatima N, Hasan SM. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. 2024 Jul 29:1-6.
   https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-024-01380-y
6. Outcomes of Low-Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (DTC) without Radioactive Iodine (RAI) Ablation Therapy Post-Thyroidectomy: An Experience from a Tertiary Centre in Karachi. Fatima N, Kiran Z, Iqbal J, Baloch AA, Habib SMS, Ahmed A. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2024 Aug;34(8):968-973.
   http://doi.org/10.29271/jcpsp.2024.08.968
7. Correlation of copeptin with osmolarity and electrolytes in diabetes Mellitus: A tertiary center outpatient experience. T Noor, Z Kiran, A Ali, SB Syed, F Hanif.
   https://doi.org/10.29052/IJEHSR.v10.i2.2022.157-166
8. Awareness among the Muslim diabetic patients about the fasting in Ramadan. AA Baloch, S Naz, SM Hasan, MU Khan, Z Kiran, SM Adnan
9. Rawal Medical Journal 47 (2), 298-298. https://www.rmj.org.pk/fulltext/27- 1607056362.pdf
10. Levothyroxine dosages during pregnancy among hypothyroid women. An experience from a tertiary care center of Karachi, Pakistan, based on data from Maternal Hypothyroidism on Pregnancy Outcomes Study (MHPO-5). Kiran, Z., Khalid, W., Sheikh, A. et al. BMC Res Notes 15, 92 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05984-7
11.  Neonatal outcomes and congenital anomalies in pregnancies affected by hypothyroidism. (MHPO 3). Kiran, Z., Sheikh, A., Humayun, K., Islam, N. Taylor &
    Francis: Annals of Medicine (2021) 53 (1), 1560-1568. https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2021.1970798
12. Association of thyroid antibodies status on the outcomes of pregnant women with hypothyroidism (maternal hypothyroidism on pregnancy outcomes, MHPO4). Kiran, Z., Sheikh, A. & Islam, N. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 21, 136 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03594-y
13. Association of Diabetes and Hypertension as risk factors with Ischemic Heart Disease among patients visiting a Public Sector Tertiary Care Hospital of Karachi,
    Pakistan. Zulfiqar Ali Shaikh, Javeria Shamim, Akmal Khurshid Bhatti, Sahar Soomro, Zareen Kiran, Syed Azhar Matloob. Pakistan Journal of Public Health
    (2020) 10(4), 215-219. https://doi.org/10.32413/pjph.v10i4.509
14. Relation of Copeptin with Diabetic and Renal Function Markers Among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Progressing Towards Diabetic Nephropathy. Tooba Noor, Farina Hanif, Zareen Kiran, Rehana Rehman, Muhammad Tassaduq Khan, Zeba Haque, and Kelash Nankani. June 2020. Archives of Medical Research.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcmed.2020.05.018
15. Maternal characteristics and outcomes affected by hypothyroidism during pregnancy (maternal hypothyroidism on pregnancy outcomes, MHPO-1). Zareen
    Kiran, Aisha Sheikh, Sarwar Malik, Areeba Meraj, Maha Masood, Safana Ismail, Muhammad Owais Rashid, Quratulain Shaikh, Numan Majeed, Luman Sheikh,
    and Najmul Islam. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2019) 19:476. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2596-9
16. Hypopituitarism other than sellar and parasellar tumors or traumatic brain injury assessed in a tertiary hospital. Malik S, Kiran Z, Rashid MO, Mawani M, Gulab A, Masood MQ, et al. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(4):1149-1154. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.4.174
17. Diabetic ketoacidosis characteristics and differences in type 1 versus type 2 diabetes patients. Rashid MO, Sheikh A, Salam A, Farooq S, Kiran Z, Islam N.
    Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad. 2017 Aug 11;29(3):398-402.https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_med_diabet_endocrinol_metab/20
18. Sodium and water imbalance after sellar, suprasellar, and parasellar surgery. Zareen Kiran, Aisha Sheikh, Sehrish Nizar Ali Momin, Isra Majeed, Safia Awan,
    Owais Rashid, and Najmul Islam. Endocrine Practice 2017 23:3, 309-317. https://doi.org/10.4158/EP161616.OR
19. Comparison of frequency of insulin resistance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with normal controls. Kiran Z, Majeed N, Zuberi BF. Pak J Med Sci 2015;31(6):1506-1510. http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.316.7983
20. Insulin resistance in non-diabetic patients of chronic Hepatitis C. Kiran Z, Zuberi BF, Anis D, Qadeer R, Hassan K, Afsar S.Pak J Med Sci. 2013 Jan;29(1):201-4.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.291.2888
21. Frequency of depression in chronic Hepatitis C naïve patients. Memon SA, Zuberi BF, Ashfaq MN, Kiran Z, Qadeer R, Memon AR, et al. Pak J Med Sci
    2011;27(4):780-783. https://www.zuberi.net/files/PJMS-27-780.pdf