Publications by authors named "P Sabari Arasu"

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  • Vitamin D plays a crucial role in balancing bone formation and resorption, which is essential for effective orthodontic tooth movement (OTM).
  • A systematic literature review identified six relevant studies that evaluated the influence of vitamin D on OTM, focusing on parameters like tooth movement speed, root resorption, and other secondary outcomes.
  • The meta-analysis revealed that vitamin D significantly improved tooth movement rates, indicated by a standardized mean difference of 1.43, while the effect on root resorption was less definitive.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the severe progressive threats in developing countries. There are some limitations to social and economic development among developing nations. The present study forecasts the notified prevalence of TB based on seasonality and trend by applying the SARIMA-NNAR hybrid model.

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Background: Given the sudden shift to telemedicine during the early COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a survey of practicing physicians' experience with telehealth during the prepandemic and early pandemic periods. Our survey estimates that most patient visits in the United States during the early COVID-19 pandemic period were conducted via telehealth. Given this magnitude and the potential benefits and challenges of telehealth for the US health care system, in this paper, we obtain, summarize, and analyze telehealth views and experiences of US-based practicing-physicians.

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Background: Schizophrenia, a chronic severe psychiatric illness of unknown aetiology, has been shown to be associated with HLA alleles but at varied degree in different population. The present study has focussed on analysing the frequency of HLA class I and class II alleles in persons with schizophrenia from South India.

Methods: Ninety seven individuals with schizophrenia and 103 age- and gender-matched controls were typed for HLA- A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1 loci by next-generation sequencing in Illumina MiniSeq using MIA FORA NGS FLEX HLA typing kit.

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