The prevalence of documented cardiovascular-related pregnancy complications: cross-sectional study in an academic primary care centre.

Background: Pregnancy and the postpartum period offer a unique opportunity to identify patients with risk factors leading to premature cardiovascular disease (CVD), which often go unrecognised.

Aim: This study investigates self-reported prevalence of CVD-related pregnancy complications and its documentation in electronic medical records (EMRs) in an academic family health team (AFHT).

Design & Setting: A retrospective cross-sectional survey conducted from 2016 to 2017 in an AFHT.

'Bhavishya Shakti: Empowering the Future': establishing and evaluating a pilot community mobile teaching kitchen as an innovative model, training marginalised women to become nutrition champions and culinary health educators in Kolkata, India.

Background: Malnutrition is a global emergency, creating an overlapping burden on individual, public and economic health. The double burden of malnutrition affects approximately 2.3 billion adults worldwide.

Three-year review of a capacity building pilot for a sustainable regional network on food, nutrition and health systems education in India.

Background: In Kolkata (India), there are high rates of malnourished children (45.9%) under the age of three, impacting growth, organ development, function, and cognition. Mothers have a major role to play during this crucial development stage, with research showing nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of mothers are important determinants of childhood malnutrition.

Catecholamine-induced reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a syndrome characterized by transient left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction, similar to an acute myocardial infarction but in the absence of significant obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease. This disease manifests predominantly in postmenopausal women in the presence of stressful triggers. We present a case of reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy involving apical sparing, resulting from an iatrogenic overdose of epinephrine in a young man who was treated for anaphylaxis and angioedema.

Initiation of Hippo signaling is linked to polarity rather than to cell position in the pre-implantation mouse embryo.

In the mouse embryo, asymmetric divisions during the 8-16 cell division generate two cell types, polar and apolar cells, that are allocated to outer and inner positions, respectively. This outer/inner configuration is the first sign of the formation of the first two cell lineages: trophectoderm (TE) and inner cell mass (ICM). Outer polar cells become TE and give rise to the placenta, whereas inner apolar cells become ICM and give rise to the embryo proper and yolk sac.