Prevention of diarrhea has presented indomitable challenges. A preventive strategy that has received significant interest is zinc supplementation. Existing literature including quantitative meta-analyses and systematic reviews tend to show that zinc supplementation is beneficial however evidence to the contrary is…
A third of the hospital admissions in developing countries are due to diarrhea related diseases, with 17% mortality mostly due to dehydration, prolongation of acute diarrhea and its complications Objectives: To identify baseline risk factors for prolonged diarrheal duration and…
Early detection of β-thalassemia (β-thal) trait is important. Voluntary blood donors represent an important group who are accessible and cooperative for this purpose. However, the usefulness of this population in β-thal trait detection programs has not been studied in India.…
To study the efficacy of the ultrafast Papanicolaou (UFP) staining technique for immediate cytologic diagnosis, to check specimen adequacy during radiologically guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) procedures and to objectively assess the quality of UFP stain and factors affecting…
Abstract not available Int J Lab Hematol, 2010: 33(1):113-5. By: Mamtani M, Chatterjee N, Mishra A, Soni R, Jawahirani A, Das K, Rughwani V, Shrivastava M, Kulkarni H Download Paper
Abstract not available. Eur Respir J 2010; 36(3):679-81. By: Katiyar SK, Sampath A, Bohari S, Mamtani M, Kulkarni H Download Paper
Zinc supplementation is recommended in all acute diarrheas in children from developing countries. We aimed to assess whether zinc supplementation would be equally effective against all the common organisms associated with acute diarrheas. We used data on 801 children with…
For over a decade, the importance of zinc in the treatment of acute and persistent diarrhea has been recognized. In spite of recently published reviews, there remain several unanswered questions about the role of zinc supplementation in childhood diarrhea in…
Reports on the association of polymorphisms in the gene encoding apolipoprotein E (APOE)—a vital macromolecule in cholesterol metabolism—with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have provided conflicting results. Our objective was to meta-analytically synthesize the existing evidence for the association of the…
In humans, the muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) signal is challenging to detect, record and analyze. Several methods exist that attempt to capture the latent construct of MSNA. We directly compared the performance of five MSNA parameters: burst frequency, burst…