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DIETARY HABITS AND RELATED SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHICS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS OF ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA
Get PDFBackground: Adolescence is a period where general health is at its best and stage where risks health behaviour such as unhealthy diets are expressed and increased.Aim: To explore the dietary habits and eating behaviours as well as examined the socio-demographic correlates of healthy eating and snacking habit among adolescents of Zanzibar, Tanzania.Material and Methods: Cross-sectional study among secondary school adolescents. Cluster sampling technique was used and data collected using structured questionnaire. The questionnaire inquired on; socio-demographics, dietary habits and eating behaviours. Frequency distributions, cross-tabulations and Kendall’s correlations were used for analysis.Results: Four hundred adolescents participated in the study, mean age 16.5 years (1.03) and were mostly from socio-demographically advantaged families. Close to a third (28.0%) ate healthy foods and 9.5% ate vegetables on daily basis. Snacking was found in 57.3% of all adolescents and that 33.5% ate either sweets, sugared beverages daily. Younger aged adolescents and those with educated parents were eating healthy compared to their counterparts.Conclusion: Eating healthy foods items was uncommon among the adolescents while snacking was much prevalent habit. Parental education level and employment status was associated with healthy eating and snacking habit; and that healthy eating positive correlated with snacking habits
A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OFMYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINT RELEASE AND MAITLANDTECHNIQUES IN ADHESIVE CAPSULITIS OF SHOULDER JOINT
Get PDFAdhesive capsulitis is a condition wherein the shoulder capsule of the glenohumeral joint becomes inflamed and stiff along withadhesion formation. Maitland mobilization and myofascial trigger point release techniques are important interventions in themanagement Both, Maitland mobilization and myofascial trigger point release are proven to be effective in treatment ofadhesive capsulitis in the past. However logical thinking warranted the need to study the effects of prior use of Maitlandmobilization of the shoulder joint,which primarily get affected in adhesive capsulitis, followed by myofascial trigger pointrelease of shoulder joint. Thus our study compared the efficacy of treatment strategies to improve the extensibility of Maitlandjoint mobilization techniques in patients with adhesive capsuliti
ANTERIOR ARTHRODESIS FOR TUBERCULOSIS OF THE SPINEUSING ZETA INSTRUMENTATION ON LATERAL SIDE
Get PDFThis is a prospective study of twelve patients who are diagnosed to have tuberculosis of spine with some form ofneurological deficit. In the present study, the progression of kyphosis and the fate of the bone graft and final outcome overan average twelve month follow up after radical anterior debridement, bone grafting and application of Zeta Instrumentationon the lateral side of the vertebral body is performed. Supplementation with an implant to the procedure of bone graftingafter radical debridement is a good choice as a primary procedure. It was noted that It is easy to place the implant on thelateral aspect of the bodies of the spine. There is no need of a second procedure in the form of posterior instrumentation andposterior fusion at a later date. Can be used by surgeons, where the facilities for pedicular screw fixation are not present.There is no progression of the deformit
Pattern of Head Injuries in Road Traffic Accidents
Get PDFRoad traffic accidents are one of the major causes of morbidity & mortality especially in developing countries including India. Craniofacial injuries are the most common injuries found in fatal road traffic accidents. The objective of present study was to analyze the pattern of craniofacial injuries in these fatal accidents. The study was conducted at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Al - Ameen Medical College, Bijapur during the period of January 2010 to December 2012. During this period 196 victims of fatal road traffic accident were autopsied. In the present study the male ratio was more compared to female. Most of the victims in the present study belonged to the age group of 21 to 30 years. Mechanized four wheelers were the commonest offending vehicle. Most of the death occurred in the month of November during office hours. Most common intracranial hemorrhage was Sub dural hemorahage and fissured fracture of the skull bone was the commonest fracture foun
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its association with type 2 diabetes in southIndian patients
Get PDFMetabolic syndrome is describes as a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors, such as, abdominalobesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycaemia and hypertension. There are so many risk factors are commonin Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and many of these risk factors are highly correlatedwith one another. The risk factors of the metabolic syndrome are of metabolic origin and composed ofatherogenic dyslipidemia, high plasma glucose level, elevated blood pressure, a prothrombotic state,and a pro inflammatory state. The management of persons with metabolic syndrome should have tofocus not only on blood glucose control but also includes approaches for reduction of othercardiovascular disease risk factors. The present study aims to understand the prevalence of metabolicsyndrome and its association with type 2 diabetes. The study group included 150 type 2 diabetespatients in the age group ranging between 20-80 years. Waist and hip circumference, BMI, Bloodpressure, fasting blood glucose and Cholesterol tests like HDL and Triglycerides was determined.Prevalence of individual risk factor for metabolic syndrome was determined out of 150 patients and97 patients were observed with high blood pressure, 85 patients were observed with low levels ofHDL, 60 patients were observed with central obesity, 45 patients were observed with hightriglycerides and all 150 patients were observed with diabetes
Association of serum procalcitonin with the risk of coronary artery disease
Get PDFIntroductionProcalcitonin (PCT), a calcitonin precursor is awell established novel systemic inflammatory biomarker.Inflammation in body plays important key role in pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (CAD). Inprevious studies, the results shows that the increase in PCT level have strong association with the severityof atherosclerosis, which leads to increase the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) in the patients.Various studies have been done to investigate the role of PCT in the pathogenesis and risk of CAD,yet theirresults have been inconsistent. So, in the current study we evaluate the correlation between the serumprocalcitonin levels and risk of CAD.Aims and Objectives: The aim of the study was to find the association between the serum procalcitoninlevels and risk of coronary artery disease.Materials and Methods: 100 patients selected for the study, after taken the written consent form thepatients were equally divided into two group's case and control group. In case group 50 patients withangiographically proven CAD as case group and 50 apparently healthy age and sex matched adults ascontrol group. Serum procalcitonin levels were measured in both the groups using ELISA based kits.Results: Levels of Serum procalcitonin were 252.52 ± 17.43 ng/ml in case group as compared to 40.84 ±15.6 ng/ml in control group and their difference was statistically significant (p < 0.0001).Conclusion: The results of our study shows that there was strong relation between serum procalcitoninlevels and coronary artery disease risk
A STUDY OF METABOLIC SYNDROME IN THE RURALPOPULATION OF HARYANA.
Get PDFMetabolic Syndrome (MS) is the clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. It is estimated that the burden due tocardiovascular disease (CVD) will markedly increase in developing countries particularly in the Indian subcontinent.Because both under nutrition and over nutrition are seen simultaneously in developing countries, the double burden ofdiseases makes the situation more difficult. The study included 100 subjects of the age group 20 -60 yrs attending the OPDof MMIMSR. The cross-sectional study was done for a period of 3 months from the month of January 2011 to April 2011.Simple Random sampling methods was adopted for the selection of subjects. According to NCEP definition, maximumoverall percentage of MS was 20.5% and gender specific for males and females was 30.1% and 26.7% respectively.Prevalence of obesity and the metabolic syndrome has shown a rapid rise in developing countries in the past few decadesand has led to increased risk of CVD and consequent morbidity and mortality
ERGONOMICS AND MUSCULO-SKELETAL DISORDERS INDENTISTRY
Get PDFIn spite of recent advances in technologies, occupational health related problems are more prevalent in modern daydentistry. Musculo-skeletal disorders are one among them that frequently haunt and disable many of the contemporarydentists. The proportion of reporting of musculo-skeletal pain and seeking of medical intervention for the same are on anincrease among the dentists and the dental staffs. Dental procedures, sometimes, might be laborious needing constant focusof work in areas of difficult, minimal or restrained access in oral cavity. Dental procedures involve use of potentiallydangerous instruments and materials that require proper handling and disposal as well as a good assistance from patient andthe supporting dental staffs apart from the dentists. Dentists have to adopt necessary safety measures as these risks cannotbe engineered out of dental office always. While abstaining from such risks, dentists also face stiff challenge of maintainingproper working posture to avoid any strained muscles. Musculo-skeletal disorders potentially handicap the dentists' healthand inadvertently affect the quality of the dental practice. Proper use of the dental resources is an absolute necessity for thedentists to keep such disorders at bay and avoid incurring considerable impact on economics and good will of dentalpractices. It is of paramount importance for dentists to be updated with information regarding tackling of these healthproblems and wise use of necessary innovations. By learning the art of coping strategies for prevention of musculo-skeletaldisorders, dentists can tread a fine line between maintaining health, income, technical and professional standards
Microscopic Vision on Leprosy in Northern Karnatak
Get PDFLeprosy still continues to be a public health problem in India. The cases were selected regardless of their age, sex, religion, occupation and socio economic status. Pathological examination helps in confirming the clinical diagnosis. Clinically exact typing of leprosy is difficult and even slitskin smear yields poor results. Majority of the cases were seen in second and third decade. Patients of both sexes were affected and it was more in males than in females. Patients from different religions were affected among these most of them belonged to Hindu religion
Toxicity Analysis of different medicinal plant extracts in Swiss Albino Mice
Get PDFPlants and their derivatives played a key role in world health and have long been known to possess biological activity. The importance of biological evaluations of plants derived agents used in the treatment of various diseases. The data of the acute toxicity studies (oral) on medicinal plants obtained in order to increase the confidence in its safety to human, particularly for use in the development of pharmaceuticals. The aim of this work was to study the effects of repeated dosage of two concentration of plant extracts such as 400mg/kg and 600mg/kg were administered to Swiss albino mice daily for 15 days (orally) to check the safety profile of plant extracts. Mice were randomly selected and each group contains three animals, and analyse the physical parameters, biochemical parameters and liver toxicity were studied at the end of the experiment and analyse the histopathological studies to done for 400mg/kg of group animals assess any organ specific toxicity. From the study there was no changes were observed in liver section when compared with treated and control groups