Publications by authors named "Alpa S Amin"
Use of Continuous Metabolic Syndrome Score in Overweight and Obese Children.
Indian J Pediatr
October 2019
Objective: To assess the utility of continuous metabolic syndrome score (cMetS) for predicting metabolic syndrome (MS) and determine the cut-off values in overweight and obese children.
Methods: This study was conducted among 104 children (7-14 y) attending obesity clinics of a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India. The cMetS was computed by standardizing the residuals of waist circumference (WC), mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides (TG), and Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) by regressing them according to age and sex and aggregating them.
Objective: To assess the prevalence, pattern and outcome of congenital heart disease (CHD) among the babies born in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Hospital, Mumbai and to compare the pattern of CHD with the study done in the same hospital in year 1999.
Methods: A prospective, longitudinal study was conducted from January 2006 through December 2011. Babies presenting with murmur were closely followed up till the diagnosis and further to assess the outcome.