Publications by authors named "Smrithi Santhosh"
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- Cognitive screening tools help find signs of dementia, but some may not work well for people from different cultures.
- This review looked at tools that are fair for all cultures and checked how well they detect problems in thinking for older adults.
- The results showed that some tools, like RUDAS and KICA, worked better than the old standard test, called MMSE, especially for people from various backgrounds.
Weight loss of 5%-10% is advised in medical weight management (MWM) programmes prior to bariatric surgery but it remains to be established whether it influences postoperative weight loss outcomes. We studied postoperative percent total weight loss (%TWL) in 168 patients categorized by preoperative referral weight loss <5% or ≥5% in a UK NHS bariatric centre. Eighty-six (51.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare genetic condition, characterized by ciliary protein dysfunction, leading to multi-organ damage. People with BBS can develop early-onset severe obesity and associated problems including the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. Weight management can be challenging with the lack of effective medical therapies so far.
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