Objective: To find out the frequency of dyslipidemias in type 2 diabetic patients. Study Design and Setting: This was cross-sectional study and conducted in a different clinics in Karachi during 3 months period. Methodology: Those patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria and attended the OPD were selected. Patient were advised to bring their lipid profile report in next visit if not already done. The total dyslipidemias were presented by their frequencies and percentages with 95% confidence interval. Results: Out of 383 patients with diabetes mellitus 210 (55 %) had dyslipidemia. Among which 76% had elevated lowdensity lipoprotein (LDL), 66.6 % had elevated serum cholesterol, 57% patient had elevated triglyceride. p- value of 0.05 was taken as statistically significant. Conclusion: It was concluded that increased frequency of dyslipidemias, with elevated low-density lipoprotein, cholesterol and triglycerides levels seen in diabetic patients.

Background: Status epilepticus is one of the common neurological emergencies associated healthcare costs, morbidity and mortality worldwide. The prevalence is more in extreme ages, in adults as well as in children. However, it can occur at any age. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the possible causes and outcomes of status epilepticus in adults. Method: Across-sectional study was conducted in the department of Neurology, at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College, Karachi during January 2015 to March 2016. All patients of either gender between 18-60 years of age diagnosed for status epilepticus, presented within 24 hours of their first episode of status epilepticus were included in the study. Patients were examined for the assessment of nature, type and presence or absence of precipitating factors (noncompliance, systemic infection, head trauma and central nervous system infections). Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 19.0. Results: A total number of 241 patients were recruited. We observed that the patients with no previous history of epilepsy 41(17%) had central nervous system infections, followed by head trauma 27(11%), systemic infections 22(9%) and 3(1.2%) were stroke. In patients who were known case of epilepsy 70(29.0%) patients were found non-compliant to Anti-Epiliptic Drug while 30(12.4%) patients were found to have hyponatremia. In 48(19.9%) patients no obvious cause was found. Conclusion: Status epilepticus is not common in our setup and predominant type is convulsive status and none of our patients have non convulsive status. Most common precipitating factor was infections followed by trauma. Further studies of bigger dimension are needed to substantiate these findings. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol. 22 No. 01 January’23 Page : 128-134