Introduction An understanding of the pathways to psychiatric care is critically important as a means of informing national policy and re-directing the meager resources towards better management of psychiatric patients. Since pathways to psychiatric care in South India are poorly understood we conducted a study in Mysore, South India to determine the various pathways to Psychiatric care. The aim...

background world health organization/international society of hypertension (who/ish) charts have been employed to predict the risk of cardiovascular outcome in heterogeneous settings. the aim of this research is to assess the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors and to estimate the cardiovascular risk among adults aged >40 years, utilizing the risk charts alone, and by the ad...

An Epidemiological Study of Hemiplegia due to Stroke in South India • The findings of a preliminary epidemiological survey of Vellore, South India, and adjoining rural areas are presented. The prevalence of "completed strokes" and hemiplegias due to any cause is 56.9 per 100,000. The high incidence of hemiplegia in the young has been pointed out. The need for concerted efforts for a proper eval...

Snake bite envenomations are common in rural areas and the incidence peaks during monsoons in India. Prominent venomous species have been traditionally labeled as the 'big four' that includes Cobra, Krait, Russel's viper and Saw scaled viper. Systematic attempts for identification and classification of prevalent snakes in various states of India are missing till now and there is no concrete dat...

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of assessment of eligibility for early medical abortion by community health workers using a simple checklist toolkit. DESIGN Diagnostic accuracy study. SETTING Ethiopia, India and South Africa. METHODS Two hundred seventeen women in Ethiopia, 258 in India and 236 in South Africa were enrolled into the study. A checklist toolkit to determine eligibility for...

of Electro-Cardiographic manifestations – A cross-sectional study from South-India Simi S, MD; Ceena Jacob, MD; Teny Mathew John, MD, DNB; George KC,; R. Jayaprakash, MD; Medicine, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India; Dermatology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India; Internal Medicine, Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kottayam, India; General Medicine, Government Medical Co...

Author details International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South-East Asia Office, New Delhi, India. Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, India. State TB cell, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Bhopal, India. World Health Organization, Country Office in India, New Delhi, India. Department...

HIV infection is associated with impairment of hearing function, at any stage of disease causing complication to the external, middle, inner ear and CNS. Audiological manifestation of HIV is a direct consequence of virus or secondary to the pharmacological treatment or viral complication. Objectives: There is paucity of information pertaining to hearing status in HIV. As the deafness can occur ...

OBJECTIVES Optimal control of type 2 diabetes is challenging in many patient populations including in South Asian patients. We systematically reviewed studies on the effect of diabetes management interventions targeted at South Asian patients with type 2 diabetes on glycaemic control. DESIGN Systematic review of MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL databases for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and ...

a Department of Electronics Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, South Korea. b Centre for Nano Science and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India. c Department of Physics, Raghu Engineering College, Vizag, India. d Department of Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, Telangana, India. e Department of Physics, B.V. Raju Institute of Technol...