Publications by authors named "M C Verma"

Sleep stewardship is a systematic effort to ensure relaxed and restorative sleep, by optimizing pre-sleep, intra-sleep and post-sleep environment and ambience, in a rational manner. It includes not only sleep hygiene and prevention of sleeping pill abuse, but also macro- and meso-level interventions to improve sleep quality. The person living with sleep disorder, their family, members of society, health care professionals, and policy makers: all have a role to play in sleep stewardship.

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Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are governed by a cluster of unhealthy behaviours and their determinants, like tobacco and alcohol, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity, overweight and obesity, pollution (air, water, and soil), and stress. Regulation of these unhealthy behaviours plays a crucial role in blood pressure control among individuals on hypertensive treatment, especially those suffering from uncontrolled hypertension. Hence, the present study aims at identifying the unhealthy behaviours associated with uncontrolled hypertension.

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Hydatid disease is a zoonosis caused by . Vascular complication like rupture of hepatic hydatid cyst into inferior vena cava is extremely rare and potentially life threatening. This report describes a case of a 52-year-old male with spontaneous fistulization of a hepatic hydatid cyst into the inferior vena cava and right hepatic vein.

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Angiotensin Receptor Neprilysin Inhibitor (ARNI) has not shown to be promising in Heart failure with preserved LVEF. Role of ARNI in Right ventricular systolic dysfunction with preserved LVEF needs to be evaluated. We took 50 patients with isolated RV systolic dysfunction and divided them into two groups of 25 patients each- Conventional treatment and ARNI in addition to conventional treatment.

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Polyglucosans are glycogen molecules with overlong chains, which are hyperphosphorylated in the neurodegenerative Lafora disease (LD). Brain polyglucosan bodies (PBs) cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases including Lafora disease and adult polyglucosan body disease (ABPD), for which treatments, biomarkers, and good understanding of their pathogenesis are currently missing. Mutations in the genes for the phosphatase laforin or the E3 ubiquitin ligase malin can cause LD.

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