Publications by authors named "M S Phatak"

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  • * Initial visual assessments revealed significant vision loss in the left eye and worsening conditions in the right eye, with diagnostic tests confirming syphilis as the underlying cause of the retinitis.
  • * After receiving treatment with benzathine penicillin and doxycycline, the patient's vision improved markedly in both eyes, demonstrating the effectiveness of addressing syphilitic retinitis.
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Background: Shift work is essential in health care because of the need for 24-hour services but it is associated with adverse health outcomes, including disrupted circadian rhythms, poor sleep, unhealthy dietary habits, and increased stress. These effects may differ across job categories, such as nursing officers and hospital support staff, owing to varying physical and psychological demands. Limited research exists on how shift work impacts these groups differently, particularly regarding readiness to change unhealthy lifestyle behaviors.

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There is common consensus that data sharing accelerates science. Data sharing enhances the utility of data and promotes the creation and competition of scientific ideas. Within the Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) community, data types and modalities are spread across many organizations, geographies, and governance structures.

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Data discovery, the ability to find datasets relevant to an analysis, increases scientific opportunity, improves rigour and accelerates activity. Rapid growth in the depth, breadth, quantity and availability of data provides unprecedented opportunities and challenges for data discovery. A potential tool for increasing the efficiency of data discovery, particularly across multiple datasets is data harmonisation.

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Background Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN), an important form of DAN is caused by the impairment of the autonomic nerve fibers that innervate the heart and blood vessels and leads to abnormalities in cardiovascular dynamics. The earliest finding of CAN, even at the subclinical stage, is a decrease in heart rate variability (HRV). Objective The objective is to assess the effect of ramipril 2.

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