Recently added articles from Indian Journal of Medical Research:
Know your risk: but how?
Sep 01, 2008; ... This years' World Heart Day theme, "Know your risk," being promoted by the World Heart Federation is critical for challenging the rising epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Like many developed countries during the last century, developing countries are seeing an alarming increase in the ...
Pathogenesis of senile diabetes
Sep 01, 2008; ... The first time in 1898, Bernhard Von Naunyn distinguished three types of DM: the juvenile, the senile and the organic ones in his book entitled "Der Diabetes Mellitus1". Since then the distinction of various types of DM had been maintained on the basis of the clinical characteristics and the age ...
Emotional stress & male infertility
Sep 01, 2008; ... Infertility imposes a major psychological burden on patients. It affects an estimated 10-15 per cent of couples, and in roughly half of these cases the defect can be traced to the male1. A large portion of these men is infertile because of abnormalities in sperm parameters. Paradoxically, the ...
Insecticide treated nets - technological & operational challenges
Sep 01, 2008; ... Mosquito nets treated with pyrethroid insecticides repel, disable and/or kill mosquitoes on contact They provide personal protection to individual users, but when used by a high proportion of people in a community they have been shown to avert around half the number of malaria cases1-2 ....
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC): the bug in our backyard
Sep 01, 2008; ... Escherichia coli is one of the members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, which resides as normal gut microflora in humans and otìier animals. Certain subsets of this species have acquired virulence genes that enable them to cause diarrhoeal and other extraintestinal diseases. Based on the nature ...
Metabolic syndrome & psychiatric disorders
Sep 01, 2008; ... The metabolic syndrome, a constellation of symptoms associated with obesity, dyslipidaemia, insulin insensithity, deranged glucose metabolism and hypertension has been gaining widespread interest due to its immense clinical relevance. We review the metabolic syndrome in terms of its diagnostic ...
Control measures for malaria in pregnancy in India
Sep 01, 2008; ... The purpose of this paper is to examine the current status of malaria in pregnancy (MiP) in India and review current control measures, programmes and interventions that work, and to suggest areas that need to be addressed. MiP can have serious health consequences for both the mother and infant, ...
Effect of emotional stress on sperm quality
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Emotional stress plays a detrimental role on fertility. In this study male patients with idiopathic infertility were selected after evaluation of psychological stress to evaluate a positive effect of a stress therapy on their semen quality. Methods: A total ...
Impact of lambdacyhalothrin capsule suspension treated bed nets on malaria in tribal villages of Malkangiri district, Orissa, India
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Insecticide treated mosquito nets are increasingly being used in malaria control programmes. One of the problems with the treatment of bed nets with conventional formulations of insecticides was that regular washing of treated nets diminish insecticidal effect ....
Detection of shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) in diarrhoeagenic stool & meat samples in Mangalore, India
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) are causative agente of bloody diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis (HC) and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS). Humans acquire infections primarily through contaminated beef. In India, STEC has not been implicated as a major cause ...
Evaluation of WHO haemoglobin colour scale & palmar pallor for screening of anaemia among children (6-35 months) in rural Wardha, India
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Anaemia is a public health problem in India, particularly in women and children. Clinical diagnosis by health workers may be inaccurate. It is therefore important to evaluate simple methods for diagnosis of anaemia in rural set up with no or minimal laboratory ...
Prevalence & risk factors of anaemia among women of reproductive age in Bursa, Turkey
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: The control of anaemia in women of childbearing age is essential to prevent low birth weight and perinatal and maternal mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the anaemia prevalence and risk factors in women of reproductive age group in Nilufer Public ...
A preliminary study on chromosome aneuploidy & mosaicism in early pre-implantation human embryo by fluorescence in situ hybridization
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Chromosome aneuploidy plays an important role in infertility, early pregnancy wastage and perinatal mortality. Cytogenetic & fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) studies on developmentally arrested and morphologically poor embryo have shown high frequency of ...
Rational use of glucocorticoid during pituitary surgery - A pilot study
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: The conventionally used perioperative glucocorticoid replacement protocol in patients with pituitary tumours is far from optimal. In this study we evaluated the validity of a modified protocol for perioperative glucocorticoid replacement in non-functioning pituitary ...
Prevalence of multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates may be transmitted within communities due to dense population and poor hygienic conditions. For proper management and control of MDR-TB, understanding drug susceptibility pattern of M. tuberculosis ...
Leptospirosis in a midland rural area of Kerala State
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Leptospirosis has been repeatedly reported from the State of Kerala since 1989 and is one of the commonest diseases among the 14 notifiable diseases in the district level communicable disease surveillance system. As there are no field studies on human leptospirosis ...
Multiplex PCR for bla^sub CTX-M^ & bla^sub SHV^ in the extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) producing Gram-negative isolates
Sep 01, 2008; ... Background & objectives: Phenotyping is commonly used for detection of extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) production in Gram-negative isolates. ESBLs are mainly coded for by three important genes, namely bfon^ blasw/ and Muctc-m. In this study we used a multiplex PCR as a rapid method ...
Tobacco related cancer risk in north eastern region of India
Sep 01, 2008; ... Sir, Scientific evidence of diseases caused by tobacco use has been piling up1 for a long time and smoking is known to be a major cause of cancer. Cancers caused due to tobacco smoking are lung, urinary bladder, oral cavity (mouth and tongue), sino-nasal cavity, nasopharynx, oro-pharynx ...
Association of ovarian proteins with transovarial transmission of dengue viruses by Aedes mosquitoes in Rajasthan, India
Sep 01, 2008; ... Sir, Transovarial or vertical transmission of dengue viruses across mosquito generations1-3 may play a crucial role in retention of viral pathogen during inter epidemic periods of dengue in an endemic setting. Significance of persistence of this phenomenon across mosquito generations as ...
High prevalence of carbapenem resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a tertiary care centre of north India. Are we under-reporting?
Sep 01, 2008; ... Sir, Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common nosocomial pathogen, notorious for its multidrug resistance (MDR) and life threatening infections in critically ill patients. Lately, carbapenems are being used as the last resort antimicrobial to treat serious infections due to MDR P. aeruginosa ....