Hyperlipidemia is a family of disorders that are characterised by abnormally high levels of lipida (fats) in the blood. While fats play a vital role in the body’s metabolic processes, high blood levels of fats increase the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary heart disease (CHD), are epidemic in India. According to American Heart Association, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and other government sources, cardiovascular disease is the leading global cause of death, accounting for more than 17.3 million deaths per year, a number that is expected to grow to more than 23.6 million by 2030. India has seen a rapid transition in its heart disease burden over the past couple of decades. Of the 30 million heart patients in India, 14 million reside in urban areas and 16 million in rural areas. If the current trend continues, by the year 2020, the burden of atherothrombotic cardiovascular diseases in India will surpass that of any other country in the world. The Registrar General of India reported that CHD led to 17% of total deaths and 26% of adult deaths in 2001-2003, which increased to 23% of total and 32% of adult deaths in 2010-2013. The global increase in the prevalence of hyperlipidemia is due to unhealthy eating habits, obesity and physical inactivity. The emergencies, risk factors and remedies are described in the literature. Hyperlipidemia, Coronary heart disease, lipoproteins

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Background: Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana has been launched to provide financial protection expenditure to nearly 500 million vulnerable Indians. For expanding the coverage under the scheme, it is necessary to understand the perspective of health care service providers involved in the scheme. Aim & Objective: To find out the bottlenecks in implementation of PMJAY scheme using empanelled hospitals’ perspective Settings and Design: Cross sectional study Methods and Material: 8 Public and 23 Private hospitals were selected through Simple Random Sampling from the list of PMJAY empanelled hospitals. The PMJAY Medical Officer co-ordinators in the empanelled hospitals were interviewed using a predesigned and pretested questionnaire. Statistical analysis used: Data was analysed using descriptive statistics in Epiinfo software. Results: Among the 31 empanelled hospitals studied, 93.5% were satisfied with the process for empanelment under PMJAY. 64.5% hospitals were not satisfied with the Health Benefit Packages. 77.4% hospitals perceived the PMJAY to be poorer as compared to private health insurance with reasons being poor grievance reprisal, poor claim processing and settlement, denial of reimbursement of health packages, poor rates of health packages and little information about the scheme. Conclusions: Various hurdles are being faced in the implementation of the scheme. There definitely remains a huge scope for further improvements so as to enhance the insurance coverage in the country.

Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.) commonly known as Rasbhari is an important minor tropical Solanaceae fruit crop of India. An experiment was conducted at Horticulture Research Farm, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow during winter season 2016-2017, to study the impact of integrated nutrient management on growth and physical attributes of fruits in Cape gooseberry. The experiment comprised six treatments T1 (control)), T2 ((NPK 100 % RDF), T3 (FYM 100%) T4 (vermicompost 100%), T5 (50% NPK + 50% FYM) and T6 (50% NPK + 50% vermicompost) and was laid out in randomized block design with three replications. The observation revealed that the application of 50% vermincompost+50% NPK (T6) was better for improvement of plant height (34.55 cm), stem diameter (8.4 cm), number of leaves per plant (49.5), number of branches per plant (13.5), leaf length (8.7 cm) and leaf width (6.5 cm) along with the fruit physical attributes i.e. fruit weight with husk (7.0 g), fruit weight without husk (6.7 g), fruit size (3.2 cm equatorial diameter), fruit size (3.1 cm polar diameter), fruit volume (6.9 ml) and fruit specifi c gravity (1.2) which were found to be increased with the treatment.

Universal Health Coverage aims to provide essential health services to all while providing protection from catastrophic expenditure on health. To mitigate the economics of health expenditure, health insurance is one of the important tool. Hence, this study was conducted to nd out the awareness and practice of health insurance coverage in rural and urban Meerut.90 households were studied in both rural and urban area. Awareness was higher in urban area but coverage was higher in rural area. Awareness and coverage were found to be signicantly associated with poverty status in rural area of Meerut.