Publications by authors named "P Boregowda"
Objectives: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events have been shown to occur at higher frequency in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In this study, our aim is to evaluate whether statin is being used appropriately in patients with PAD and also evaluate its usage with the number of vascular beds involved.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study reviewed data of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of PAD based on invasive or noninvasive imaging.
What is the role of spatial peers in diffusion of information about health care? We use the implementation of a health insurance program in Karnataka, India that provided free tertiary care to poor households to explore this issue. We use administrative data on location of patient, condition for which the patient was hospitalized and date of hospitalization (10,507 observations) from this program starting November 2009 to June 2011 for 19 months to analyze spatial and temporal clustering of tertiary care. We find that the use of healthcare today is associated with an increase in healthcare use in the same local area (group of villages) in future time periods and this association persists even after we control for (1) local area fixed effects to account for time invariant factors related to disease prevalence and (2) local area specific time fixed effects to control for differential trends in health and insurance related outreach activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSetting: Twelve antiretroviral treatment centres under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), Karnataka State, India.
Objective: For the period 2004-2011, to describe the trends in the numbers of people living with HIV (PLHIV) registered for care and their median baseline CD4 counts, disaggregated by age and sex.
Design: Descriptive study involving analysis of routinely captured data (year of registration, age, sex, baseline CD4 count) under NACP.