Background: Obstructive sleep apnoea is a common sleep disorder, and adult congenital heart disease (CHD) is also a significant burden on the population. Early diagnosis and treatment are important for improving quality of life and reducing the risk of health complications. The limited research on obstructive sleep apnoea and adult CHD highlights the need for further investigation into the relationship between these two conditions and the mechanisms underlying this relationship.
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April 2024
Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and dependent cannabis use or cannabis use disorder (CUD+) are independent risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Usage of cannabis for pain increased in IBD patients. However, associated cardiovascular safety remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Death is unnatural and suspicious when it is caused by external causation like injury or poisoning or other than natural course. In such deaths of married females, the inquest is carried out, and a medico-legal autopsy is conducted to ascertain the cause of death and manner of death.
Materials And Methods: This record-based, retrospective study was carried out at RVRS Medical College, Rajasthan in the year 2021 (1 January, 2021 to 31 December, 2021) to know the pattern of the suspicious death of married females brought for medico-legal autopsy.
Am J Med Sci
February 2024
Background: Ample evidence suggests that female smokers face a greater risk of smoking-related health problems than male smokers. Due to the growing number of young smokers in the United States, there has been limited information on the effects of smoking on young female smokers over the past decade.
Methods: Hospitalizations of young (18-44 years) female tobacco smokers were identified using the National Inpatient Sample datasets from 2007 and 2017.
Background: Given current evidence linking peripheral atherosclerotic disease, also known as cannabis arteritis, and acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in individuals with cannabis use disorder (CUD), we investigated the frequency and implications of CUD in relation to AIS risk and outcomes among elderly patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD).
Methods: The National Inpatient Sample (2016-2019) was used to compare geriatric patients with PVD and cannabis use disorder CUD. CUD was correlated with AIS admissions.
Depression and coronary artery disease are leading causes of mortality in adults in high-income countries. Due to the paucity of data on the young, we aimed to investigate the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and associated major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) in young adults hospitalized with comorbid depression a decade apart. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the National Inpatient Sample Database for the years 2007 and 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Every year, millions of children around the world face sexual abuse and exploitation. Sexual and reproductive health education is an important form of health promotion action against it. This study aims to assess the impact of health education program in improving knowledge of the children on child sexual abuse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurvival of patients after repair of coarctation of Aorta (CoA) has improved significantly over the decades, but patients have decreased life expectancy as compared to the general population. This has been attributed to increased hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, and coronary artery disease. There has also been an increasing concern of overweight and obesity in patients with adult congenital heart disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In India, inquest is carried out by police or magistrate depending upon the type of death and medico-legal autopsy is carried out by doctor. In some cases, inquest is sufficient to make out necessary information related to death and medico-legal autopsy can be avoided in such death, but medico-legal autopsy has its own value.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective record-based study was carried out at RVRS Medical College, Bhilwara, Rajasthan, regarding the correlation of inquest and medico-legal autopsy findings in community deaths which were brought dead to hospital in the year 2020.
Objective: To assess clinical characteristics and outcomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).
Study Design: Children with MIS-C admitted to pediatric intensive care units in New York City between April 23 and May 23, 2020, were included. Demographic and clinical data were collected.
A high-velocity gradient across the left ventricular outflow tract is most often caused by aortic valve stenosis. We describe the unusual case of a high-velocity gradient caused by a kinked ascending aortic graft in a 69-year-old man who had Marfan syndrome. The patient had a history of ascending aortic aneurysm and had previously undergone replacement of the aortic root and ascending aorta with use of a bioprosthetic valved graft.
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September 2015
Reduced graphene oxide (RGO) has been prepared by a simple, cost-effective, and green route. In this work, graphene oxide (GO) has been reduced using Gram-negative facultative anaerobe S. dysenteriae, having exogenic properties of electron transfer via electron shuttling.
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