Association of retinol binding protein and the risk of idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) is a disease of unknown etiology. Understanding the role of Retinol Binding Protein (RBP) in IIH pathogenesis could provide valuable perceptions into disease mechanisms and potentially identify new therapeutic targets.

Methods: The study conducted a comprehensive search of electronic databases following PRISMA guidelines.

Urban Nutrition in the Global South: A Narrative Review of Current Research.

According to the Global Food Policy Report 2017, nearly 90% of the projected urban population increase by 2050 is going to be concentrated in Africa and Asia. Parallel evidence suggests that poverty and related challenges of food insecurity and undernutrition are also urbanizing. The dynamics underlying urban nutrition is different from rural ones but also arguably represents a more complex scenario.

Beyond WASH: Testing Additional Connections Between Household Water Insecurity and Child Nutrition Outcomes in Multi-Country Contexts.

This study identifies multiple pathways connecting household water insecurity with child nutrition. Using nationally representative samples for 18 countries, we examine the mediating role of child's dietary diversity as a function of household water status, while also accounting for sanitation. We construct a latent household water insecurity score (HWI) and use Structural Equation approach to model underlying pathways.

Effectiveness of CBT for reducing depression and anxiety in people with epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Background: Patients with epilepsy suffer from depression and anxiety that reduces quality of life. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) among various non pharmacological treatment recommended for depression and anxiety. Since there are several articles reporting CBT treatment for depression in patients with epilepsy, we conduct a meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of CBT for adult patients with epilepsy.

Men's household water fetching in India: Gender inequity is associated with greater responsibility and related risks.

Introduction: Household water fetching elevates physical and emotional harms, and these are generally assumed to accrue to women due to gendered labor assignments. But even in cases like India where fetching remains a highly feminized task, there are households where the primary responsibility is assumed by men.

Methods: We test the proposition that men's responsibility for water fetching is predicted by greater gender equity, reflected in measures of wives' empowerment.

Managing menstruation with dignity: Worries, stress and mental health in two water-scarce urban communities in India.

An emerging body of literature examines multiple connections between water insecurity and mental health, with particular focus on women's vulnerabilities. Women can display greatly elevated emotional distress with increased household water insecurity, because it's them who are primarily responsible for managing household water and uniquely interact with wider water environments. Here we test an extension of this proposition, identifying how notions of dignity and other gendered norms related to managing menstruation might complicate and amplify this vulnerability.

Satisfaction and effectiveness of tele-medicine in follow-up of people with epilepsy in a resource-poor setting during COVID-19.

Background: Effectiveness of different tele-medicine strategies varies in different medical conditions. Use of basic tele-medicine strategy like mobile health (m-health) can be an effective option in different medical conditions in a resource-poor setting.

Aims: To study effectiveness and satisfaction of tele-medicine among persons with epilepsy (PWE) in a developing nation during COVID-19 pandemic.

Household Water Insecurity Affects Child Nutrition Through Alternative Pathways to WASH: Evidence From India.

Background: Household water security matters greatly for child nutrition outcomes in the global South. Water's role in sanitation/hygiene, via diarrheal disease, is cited as a primary mechanism here. Yet, the relationship between Water along with Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and child stunting remains inconclusive.

Sub-optimal household water access is associated with greater risk of intimate partner violence against women: evidence from Nepal.

Household water management is often women's responsibility, as related to the gendered nature of household roles. Ethnographic data suggest that household water insecurity could increase women's exposure to emotional and physical forms of intimate partner violence (IPV), as punishments for failures to complete socially expected household tasks that rely on water (like cooking and cleaning) and the generally elevated emotional state of household members dealing with resource scarcity. Here, we test the associations between sub-optimal household water access and women's exposure to IPV, using the nationally-representative data from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2016.

Water insecurity potentially undermines dietary diversity of children aged 6-23 months: Evidence from India.

Dietary diversity is a crucial pathway to child nutrition; lack of diversity may deprive children of critical macro and micronutrients. Though water along with hygiene and sanitation is a known driver of child undernutrition, a more direct role of household water in shaping dietary diversity remains unexplored. Existing literature provides a sound theoretical basis to expect that water could affect dietary diversity among young children.

Household water insecurity may influence common mental disorders directly and indirectly through multiple pathways: Evidence from Haiti.

Living in poverty significantly elevates risk of common mental disorders, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly specified. The stress of coping with household food insecurity is posed as one fundamental driver. While much less tested, the stress of failing to meet household water needs may also matter.

Low water access as a gendered physiological stressor: Blood pressure evidence from Nepal.

Objectives: The study aims to test novel proposed biocultural pathways linking the stressful lived experience of water insecurity to elevated blood pressure, a risk factor for chronic disease. Using the case of Nepal, where women have primary responsibility for managing household water, allows testing for potentially gendered mechanisms that exacerbate negative physiological consequences of water insecurity for women relative to men.

Methods: Data are from the nationally representative 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), N = 8633 women and 6209 men.

Molecular structure and vibrational spectra of N-acetylglycine oligomers and polyglycine I using DFT approach.

We have determined the geometric, vibrational, and electronic properties of N-acetylglycine oligomers by performing density functional theory quantum chemical calculations. The normal mode analysis was performed and the potential energy distribution was calculated among the internal coordinates. The optically active vibrational modes of PGI have been determined by selecting the modes from the calculated results of the pentamer and the observed vibrational spectra of PGI have been explained.

Is migration status a determinant of urban nutrition insecurity? Empirical evidence from Mumbai city, India.

From an economic perspective that understood it as a spillover of development, migration is now also the subject of socioeconomic investigation incorporating the problems of assimilation, relative deprivation and isolation. The corollary is an increased emphasis on economic and social understanding of migration and its consequences. This entails studying migration or migrants in terms of factors beyond income.