Background: Breast cancer has emerged as a rapidly growing cancer in India and has already replaced cervical cancer. According to global cancer statistics for the year 2008, breast cancer resulted in 46 million deaths. In Asia, incidence rate of breast cancer is lower but is drastically rising. Nevertheless, while dyslipidemia [high LDL-C (low density Lipo-protein-cholesterol) and low HDL-C (high density lipo-protein-cholesterol) levels] has controversial role in this disease; the specific influence of dyslipidemia in breast cancer initiation and progression is not completely understood. So, we undertook this study.Methods: The study was conducted in the department of general surgery, at Medical College and allied Hospital, in Central rural India between year 2012 and 2014. It was a case control study with a sample size of 50 female participants attending the surgery in patient department, fitting in the inclusion criteria as cases and 50 matching controls. The Data was entered in master chart was statistically analyzed by using SYSTAT version 11 and tests were applied accordingly.Results: Age is a crucial factor in malignancy, most of the studies show malignancy presents more in elder population when compared to young ones. In most patients were between 31-50 years. The youngest patient was of 36 years and the oldest was 78 years. The mean age of the patients affected was 48.54 years which is close to the values in other studies. This study also demonstrated significantly high (p value<0.01) serum TC (total cholesterol) levels of post-menopausal study group (32%, more) as compared to post-menopausal control group. The increase in Serum TC levels was more in post-menopausal study group as compared with pre-menopausal study group. Present study had not shown a significant difference (p value >0.05) between serum levels of HDL-C levels in pre-and post-menopausal control group and study group, though post-menopausal cases had slightly lower values of HDL-C when compared with pre-menopausal controls.Conclusions: We conclude from this study that there is a definite positive correlation between carcinoma breast and fasting lipid profile. The pre-and post-menopausal cases showed significant correlation as far as Total Cholesterol and LDL. Whereas there was no significant correlation between HDL, VLDL and TG (triglycerides). Body mass index has no relation with carcinoma breast.
Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a preventative, economical method for infants with low birth weight (LBW). KMC benefits LBW infants in a number of ways. This review standpoints the effect of KMC on the weight gain of LBW neonates. KMC also improves breastfeeding rates during the hospital stay as well as at home. KMC can be provided not only by mothers but also by fathers and other adults in the family. However, it is not routinely practiced in hospitals. Short-term and long-term KMC is beneficial for survival, neurodevelopment, breastfeeding, and mother-infant bonding. Preterm infants are more likely to experience neonatal mortality and morbidity due to acute breathing problems, gastrointestinal problems, autoimmune disorders, and neurological defects as compared to full-term and normal-weight infants. A thorough literature search was conducted using key databases like PubMed and Google Scholar, as well as Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms and related keywords. Clinical health experts also believed that implementing KMC would assist mothers in developing more solid emotional bonds with their newborns. As a result, both mothers and their newborns felt more secure, and the babies were more relaxed. KMC was also seen to support the infants' growth and development, which improved the mothers' sense of connection. It is crucial to remember that KMC works better for babies with very low birth weight (VLBW). The mother-child relationship enhances sucking-feeding, and KMC infants have higher means of growth parameters.
Background: A road traffic injury is any injury caused due to crashes originating, terminating or involving a vehicle partially or fully on a public highway.The road crashes are unlike communicable diseases where the role of agent, host and environment is more defined. The aim and objective was to study of the socio-demographic profile of victims of road traffic accidents.Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2010 to September 2012 in 3 blocks of Wardha district, in Central India. The sample size was estimated using purposive sampling technique. The data was analyzed using EPI-Info version 3.5.4. Results: Out of 385 study subjects, maximum victims were in 30-60 years age group, 320 were males and 16.88% i.e. 65 were females. The total numbers of literate victims were 94.80%. Maximum accidents were seen in victims who were employed in service 151 (39.22%), followed by self employed 27%. Conclusions: Maximum victims were in 30-60 years age group which is the productive age group and male dominance was also observed which means loss of work days leading to loss of wages and loss of family income hence directly affecting the family economy.
Coronavirus 2019 has created a big threat to the modern world. Many researchers and scientists had taken the burden of finding information about this entity, its structure, its transmission, and also about the treatment that can be given to individuals infected by it. There has been use of different medicines at different times simultaneously researching about them, starting with only symptomatic and supportive treatment, then antimalarial agents like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, then going to favipavir, and other antivirals, then came the use of vaccines and also convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19. The most advanced is convalescent plasma use for the treating coronavirus. Using plasma of patients who have remitted from this disease and putting it into those individuals who are dealing with the disease or are critically ill for improvement of their health status. This treatment has been used for many other diseases too and has been proven efficacious. So, this technique is being used and studied for coronavirus 2019 as well. There have been set certain criteria for those who can donate plasma and also criteria for the recipients of this technique. Also, there can be adverse reactions or even side effects with this, like transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI), so they should also be kept in mind during treatment with this method. So, though there are many methods to date to treat these individuals but one of the latest ones is using plasma, which is proven to be efficacious but still many studies are under process for the same.
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