Publications by authors named "Ravneeta Singh"
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- * While White British patients had a higher body mass index (BMI) over 27 kg/m², South Asians had greater waist circumference, indicating different patterns of obesity.
- * The study highlights the health disparities in diabetes and obesity among South Asians, suggesting a need for targeted public health strategies in countries with large South Asian populations.
Introduction: South Asian diaspora comprise one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the world yet data about atrial fibrillation (AF) in this demographic is understudied. Our aim is to identify differences in AF prevalence and treatment between South Asians and white British stroke patients.
Method: The UK arm of a prospective ongoing large international repository on stroke was analysed.
Background And Purpose: Studies on stroke in South Asian populations are sparse. The aim of this study was to compare differences in age of onset of ischaemic stroke in South Asian patients living in the United Kingdom and South Asian patients living in India versus White British stroke patients.
Methods: We studied the UK and Indian arms of the ongoing BRAINS study, an international prospective hospital-based study of South Asian stroke patients.
An 86-year-old female presented to the Emergency Department (ED) in respiratory distress after choking on a sandwich at home. Her family had noticed that she had had difficulty during and coughing after swallowing for several months. Her initial chest x-ray showed diffuse alveolar infiltrates in both lungs and blood tests showed normal white cells and C-Reactive Protein (CRP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The COVID-19 pandemic is having major implications for stroke care with a documented significant fall in hospital acute stroke admissions. We investigated whether COVID-19 has resulted in a decreased number of referrals to the transient ischaemic attack (TIA) clinics across the North West London region.
Setting And Design: All the TIA clinical leads of the North West London region received an invitation by email to participate in an online survey in May 2020.