Continued tobacco use among tobacco-related head and neck cancer patients seeking care in a tertiary care facility, South India.

Introduction: Continued tobacco use in cancer patients leads to decreased treatment efficacy and safety, decreased survival, decreased quality of life, and an increased risk of cancer recurrence and primary tumours at other sites.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of continued tobacco usage during the first 6 months of diagnosis among tobacco-related head and neck cancer patients seeking care from a tertiary care centre and the factors associated with it.

Methods: A facility-based cohort study was conducted at a tertiary care centre in Puducherry, India.

Clinical presentation and mortality risk factors for COVID-19 among diabetic patients in a tertiary care center in South India.

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCD) like hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are the most common comorbidities among COVID-19 patients. The clinical presentation and mortality pattern of COVID-19 are different for patients with comorbidities and without comorbidities.

Objective: To determine the clinical presentation of COVID-19 and risk factors for COVID-19 mortality among diabetic patients in a tertiary care hospital in South India.

The Need for Nicotine De-addiction Services among Newly Diagnosed Tobacco-Related Head and Neck Cancer Patients, South India.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the proportion of tobacco-related head and neck cancer patients in need of nicotine de-addiction services at the time of diagnosis and factors associated with it.

Methods: Facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary care center. Tobacco-related head and neck cancer patients with a past and present history of tobacco usage registered in cancer clinic from March 2016 to February 2017 were recruited.

Health and economic burden due to alcohol-associated liver diseases in the Union Territory of Delhi: A Markov probabilistic model approach.

Background: Nearly one-fifth of all deaths attributable to alcohol are due to liver diseases.

Methods: The study employs a Markov Probabilistic Modeling approach considering various clinical spectrum of alcohol-associated liver diseases (ALD), to gauge the health and economic burden due to ALD for the national capital territory of Delhi, from March 2017 to February 2018. The health impact was estimated through Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), years of life lost (YLL), and total deaths due to ALD.

Number needed to screen to prevent progression of liver fibrosis to cirrhosis at primary health centers: An experience from Delhi.

Background: Early diagnosis has been a bottleneck in the care of chronic liver disease patients and can be addressed by Community-based screening for liver fibrosis using non-invasive diagnostic techniques.

Objectives: The study aimed to determine the prevalence of liver fibrosis and the number needed to screen (NNS) to prevent the progression of fibrosis, among adults visiting urban Primary Health Centres (PHC).

Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2018 to April 2019 in 72 randomly chosen PHCs using a mobile screening van.