Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Risk Factors among People with Diabetes in South India.

Objective: To assess the sex differences in the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among patients with type 2 diabetes, visiting the hospital between March-December 2012.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among the type 2 diabetes patients attending M.V.

Prevalence of Risk Factors of Diabetes Among Urban Poor South Indian Population.

Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of risk factors of diabetes among urban poor population in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, South India.

Study And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from Dec-2010 to Feb-2011 in Chennai city. Five hundred twenty-nine subjects aged above 18 years (409 women and 120 men) habitants of three slums were randomly selected.

Direct costs associated with chronic kidney disease among type 2 diabetic patients in India.

The aim of this study was to estimate the direct costs of medical care among hospitalized type 2 diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). A total of 209 (M:F, 133:76) patients were divided into groups based on the severity of kidney disease. Group 1 subjects had undergone renal transplantation (n = 12), group 2 was CKD patients on hemodialysis (n = 45), group 3 was patients with CKD, prior to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (n = 66), and group 4 (n = 86) consisted of subjects without any complications.

Incidence of cardiovascular diseases and associated risk factors among subjects with type 2 diabetes - an 11-year follow up study.

Aims: This study was planned to assess the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events over an 11-year period and to identify the associated risk factors that could predict the onset of CVD among subjects with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: Retrospective data of 249 patients (M:F 149:100) with type 2 diabetes, from a cohort of 7800 patients, attending a tertiary care center for diabetes from January 2000 to December 2011 were retrieved and analyzed for this study. Sociodemographic and habitual risk factors, baseline diabetes duration, HbA1c and time of onset of CVD and its risk factors were collected from case records.

Direct organogenesis of seaside heliotrope (Heliotropium crassavicum) using stem explants.

Heliotropium crassavicum L. is a sand binder salt marsh herb with enormous traditional value and widely found in South Asia America and Europe. In the direct method of regeneration from stem explants, we observed the maximum number of shoot regeneration after four weeks culture of MS elongation medium with 2.