The exponential rise in the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) worldwide has put enormous pressure on the economy. Predictive modeling of CKD can ease this burden by predicting the future disease occurrence ahead of its onset. There are various regression methods for predictive modeling based on the distribution of the outcome variable.
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April 2023
Objective: To externally validate a tool developed by the Pneumonia Research Partnership to Assess WHO Recommendations study group for identification of the risk of death in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia, the PREPARE tool.
Methods: We did a secondary analysis of data collected during hospital-based surveillance of children with community-acquired pneumonia in northern India from January 2015 to February 2022. We included children aged 2-59 months with pulse oximetry assessment.
Background: Interpregnancy interval (IPI) is spacing between live birth and beginning a new pregnancy. Both long and short IPIs have been associated with adverse maternal outcomes. There is paucity in the Indian literature regarding the impact of IPI on maternal outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaternal experience can promote a long-lasting increase in maternal motivation. This maintenance of caregiving behaviors, rather than avoidant or agnostic responses towards young, is advantageous for the survival of subsequent offspring. We have previously reported that maternal motivation is associated with differential immediate early gene expression in central motivation circuits and aversion circuits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Newborn oil massage is a widespread practice. Vigorous massage with potentially harmful products and forced removal of vernix may disrupt skin barrier integrity. Hospitalized, very-preterm infants treated with sunflower seed oil (SSO) have demonstrated improved growth but community-based data on growth and health outcomes are lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComput Intell Neurosci
December 2021
This paper proposes a multivariate and online prediction of stock prices via the paradigm of kernel adaptive filtering (KAF). The prediction of stock prices in traditional classification and regression problems needs independent and batch-oriented nature of training. In this article, we challenge this existing notion of the literature and propose an online kernel adaptive filtering-based approach to predict stock prices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Continuous invasive arterial monitoring is necessary in sick neonates needing hemodynamic and ventilatory support. The primary objective of our study was to describe clinical experience with percutaneous peripheral arterial cannulation (PAC) in sick neonates.
Methods: Neonates needing PAC were prospectively enrolled in the study.
Background: Hospitalized preterm infants with compromised skin barrier function treated topically with sunflower seed oil (SSO) have shown reductions in sepsis and neonatal mortality rate (NMR). Mustard oil and products commonly used in high-mortality settings may possibly harm skin barrier integrity and enhance risk of infection and mortality in newborn infants. We hypothesized that SSO therapy may reduce NMR in such settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Genital tuberculosis (TB) is an important cause of infertility in women that poses many challenges in diagnosis. The study is done to understand the utility of GeneXpert test in peritoneal fluid in the diagnosis of genital TB in infertile women.
Methods: All infertile women in postmenstrual phase who were planned for laparoscopy in study period were included.
This systematic review aims to comparatively evaluate the sealing ability gutta-percha and resilon as root canal filling materials. A Medline search was conducted to identify in-vitro studies published between October 01, 2004 and October 01, 2019, conducted on human extracted teeth, published in English and testing the sealing ability of gutta-percha and resilon as root canal filling materials using fluid filtration method. The search identified fifty-five published articles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhile it is mandated that reproductive and child health services be provided for free at public facilities in India, qualitative evidence suggests it is common for facilities to request bribes and other informal payments for medicines, medical tests or equipment. This article examines the prevalence of bribe requests, total out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPEs) and associations between bribe requests and total OOPEs on the experience of quality of care and maternal complications during childbirth. Women who delivered in public facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India were administered a survey on sociodemographic characteristics, bribe requests, total OOPEs, types of health checks received and experience of maternal complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present case-control study aimed to investigate the role of interaction of glutathione-s-transferase (GST) genotypes with environmental risk factors in determining susceptibility to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) involving 1,250 cases and equal number of healthy controls. An increase in the risk of HNSCC and its subsites (larynx, pharynx, and oral cavity) was observed among the cases with null genotypes of GSTM1 (odds ratio [OR] = 1.87) or GSTT1 (OR = 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarotid intima media thickness (cIMT) is considered as a surrogate marker for the various cardiovascular events that complicate nephrotic syndrome (NS). The present work was conducted to study cIMT in children with NS and to find out its correlation with dyslipidemia and other risk factors. This was a case control study conducted at a tertiary care hospital in children with NS who were more than 2 years with normal serum complement, being on therapy for NS for at least 1 year, glomerular filtration rate more than 90 ml/minute/1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn India, most women now delivery in hospitals or other facilities, however, maternal and neonatal mortality remains stubbornly high. Studies have shown that mistreatment causes delays in care-seeking, early discharge and poor adherence to post-delivery guidance. This study seeks to understand the variation of women's experiences in different levels of government facilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Globally, opportunities to validate government reports through external audits are rare, notably in India. A cross-sectional maternal health study in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, compares government administrative data and externally collected data on maternal health service indicators. : Our study aims to determine the level of concordance between government-reported health facility data compared to externally collected health facility data on the same maternal healthcare quality indicators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Oral Biol Craniofac Res
December 2016
Objectives: This cross-sectional community based study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of consumption habits for non tobacco (ASU) and the risk of developing oral precancer in North India.
Methods: This study was conducted in the old town of Lucknow city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Subjects residing for more than 6 months and aged 15 years or above, were enrolled in the study after their informed consent.
Indian J Endocrinol Metab
July 2016
Background: There are conflicting data regarding the prevalence of colorectal polyp in patients with acromegaly.
Subjects And Methods: Consecutive forty-seven acromegalic patients (21 men, 26 women), with a mean age of (40 ± 12 years) attending endocrinology outpatient department underwent full colonoscopy. All the patients underwent clinical and biochemical evaluation (glucose suppressed growth hormone (GH), Insulin-like growth factor-1 [IGF-1], fasting insulin, and glucose).
J Oral Biol Craniofac Res
November 2015
Background: Habit of consuming tobacco and areca-nut containing substances is in vogue in Lucknow as a part of the Nawabi culture. Hence, this study was planned with an aim to generate evidence for the prevalence of habits of substance abuse by the population of Lucknow and know their socio-demographic profile.
Methodology: Population based cross-sectional study was conducted by organizing oral health check-up camps in randomly selected rural and urban parts of Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, which is the most populated state of India.
MenB, the 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-CoA synthase from the bacterial menaquinone biosynthesis pathway, catalyzes an intramolecular Claisen condensation (Dieckmann reaction) in which the electrophile is an unactivated carboxylic acid. Mechanistic studies on this crotonase family member have been hindered by partial active site disorder in existing MenB X-ray structures. In the current work the 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRas superfamily GTP-binding proteins regulate important signaling events in the cell. Ras, which often serves as a prototype, efficiently hydrolyzes GTP in conjunction with its regulator GAP. A conserved glutamine plays a vital role in GTP hydrolysis in most GTP-binding proteins.
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