May Measurement Month 2021: an analysis of blood pressure screening campaign results from India.

Raised blood pressure (BP) is the leading preventable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases that makes a major impact on early mortality and morbidity. Recognizing hypertension in the community, educating people about routine BP monitoring, and improving medication compliance are all important steps in detecting, controlling, and managing hypertension. During the course of 5 months, members of the Indian Society of Hypertension organized unique medical indoor and outdoor camps at 100 screening locations around India for the May Measurement Month (MMM) 2021 study.

Anthropometric Indices and its Association with Hypertension in Indian Population: A Study from Tertiary Care Center of North India.

Introduction: Anthropometric indices such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist hip ratio (WHR) have been used for a long time as a measure of obesity and abdominal fat and the relationship between these indices and hypertension has been well established. But these indices cannot discriminate between fat and muscle mass, leaving a greater population not categorized adequately. Recent studies have also demonstrated that not only the amount of fat but also the distribution of fat is important in hypertensive patients.

Hashimoto's encephalopathy versus catatonia: A diagnostic dilemma.

Hashimoto's encephalopathy is a rare life-threatening disease entity with clinical presentation like psychiatric as well as neurological diseases, thus making it a challenging clinical scenario for physicians leading to delay in diagnosis and management of the patient. The incidence overall is under-estimated because of low overall awareness about the disease. Here, we report a 44-year-old female who was being treated for psychiatric disorders because of clinical presentation like catatonia but ultimately was diagnosed with Hashimoto's encephalopathy and responded very well to steroids.

Heart Rate Corrected QT Interval and QT Dispersion in Patients with Uncomplicated Essential Hypertension.

Unlabelled: Hypertension has become a major health burden globally. The epidemiological transit to the non communicable disease era has shifted our focus to identify the risk factors and complications associated with each disease so that we can tackle the ongoing menace at the earliest. QT interval has long been associated with ventricular arrythmias and sudden cardiac deaths and the association between the QT interval in healthy subjects and diabetics have been extensively studied, but the association between QT interval and newly diagnosed hypertensive patients have been understudied.