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- 1From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: Results of earlier studies to evaluate the possible role of complement system in tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE) using classical methods like serum haemolyte component CH50, C3 and C4...
- 2From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSir, Superannuation is common and feels bad to the receiver, when acknowledged for the first time but being called a supercentenarian is rare and an honor. Motta et al (1) magnificently discussed some important...
- 3From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: Pulmonary involvement due to leptospirosis carries high case fatality rate and is the commonest cause of death due to leptospirosis. Immune mechanisms play a key role in the pathogenesis of...
- 4From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedDiabetes mellitus (DM) is the single most important metabolic disorder that affects nearly every organ system in the body. Diabetes is escalating as an epidemic with the emergence of type 2 diabetes in children and...
- 5From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSleep disordered breathing (SDB) is increasingly being recognised as a cause of morbidity even in young children. With an estimated prevalence of 1 to 4 per cent, SDB results from having a structurally narrow airway...
- 6From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: Zygomycosis is highly invasive fungal infection, with high mortality rate. In most of patients, diabetes mellitus is an underlying factor but in primary cutaneous zygomycosis, presentation may...
- 7From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe evaluation of the upper airway (UA) includes the physical examination of pharyngeal structures and a number of imaging techniques that vary from the mostly used lateral cephalometry and computed tomography to more...
- 8From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the nation lost one of its ablest sons with the demise of Dr S.S. Sriramachari, the first Additional Director-General of ICMR and the Founder-Director of the Institute...
- 9From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: Legionella pneumophila has been increasingly recognized as an emerging pathogen responsible for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) worldwide. In India, the actual burden is not known. The...
- 10From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: Paceilomyces farinosus is an entomogenous fungus with a powerful insecticidal activity against the larvae of Lipidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. However, the hypoglycaemic activity of P....
- 11From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDelirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by disturbances in consciousness, orientation, memory, thought, perception, and behaviour due to one or more structural and/or physiological abnormalities...
- 12From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSir, With increasing incidence of resistance to antibiotics, natural products from plants could be interesting alternatives (1,2). Some plant extracts and phytochemicals are known to have antimicrobial properties,...
- 13From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is a paucity of published Indian studies on the prevalence and risk factors of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in adults. The limited published literature, however, does not suggest significant differences in the...
- 14From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNearly half of older adults report difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep. With age, several changes occur that can place one at risk for sleep disturbance including increased prevalence of medical conditions,...
- 15From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is a critical enzyme in folate metabolism and involved in DNA synthesis, DNA repair and DNA methylation. The two common functional polymorphisms of...
- 16From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: A wealth of information concerning the essential role of renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) in the regulation of renal function and mean arterial blood pressure homeostasis has been...
- 17From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: Paraoxonase (PON) is an HDL associated ester hydrolase with an ability to retard LDL oxidation in vitro by preventing lipid peroxide generation. The population variability in enzyme activity is...
- 18From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSir, The Andaman & Nicobar Islands, situated in the Bay of Bengal, is an Union Territory of India. Health care in these islands (population of about 3 50 000) is almost entirely provided by the Government. G.B. Pant...
- 19From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground & objectives: The objective of the study was to determine whether visceral or subcutaneous component of abdominal fat was associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in nondiabetic Asian...
- 20From: Indian Journal of Medical Research. (Vol. 131, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedContinuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the treatment of choice for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS). However, CPAP is not tolerated by all patients with OSAS and alternative modes of pressure delivery...