Publications by authors named "Paraag Kumar"
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- - The study aimed to develop and validate a Hindi version of the Short-Form Nepean Dyspepsia Index (SF-NDI) to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Hindi-speaking patients with functional dyspepsia (FD), as there was limited data available in India.
- - Researchers enrolled 211 FD patients, comparing the Hindi and English versions of the SF-NDI, and found strong reliability and internal consistency in both languages, while noting that severe dyspepsia significantly decreased HRQOL.
- - The findings indicated that both language versions of the SF-NDI are effective tools for measuring HRQOL in Indian FD patients, revealing that those with long-lasting and severe symptoms experience
Nonhuman primates are used frequently in cardiovascular research. Cardiac time intervals derived by phonocardiography have long been used to assess left ventricular function. Electronic stethoscopes are simple low-cost systems that display heart sound signals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPassive leg raising (PLR) elicits cardiorespiratory changes because of intra-thoracic blood pooling. We previously found PLR to lower blood pressure (BP) in healthy subjects. To determine the effects of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors on the PLR BP lowering response, we measured brachial artery, systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP), and pulse pressure (PP) before and 1 minute after 60° PLR, in 125 subjects (58% males, age 48 ± 18 years) with/without CV risk factors/disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarotid-radial pulse wave velocity (PWV) decreases in normal healthy individuals following hyperemia provoked by release of arterial cuff occlusion. To determine the effects of specific cardiovascular (CV) risk factors on the hyperemic PWV response, we measured PWV before and after brachial artery (BA) occlusion in 218 participants (66% males, age 56 +/- 19 years), with and without CV risk factors/disease. DeltaPWV ranged from -46% to +35% and values were normally distributed.
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