Search Results - "Prasad Varma, Ravi"

Variations between women and men in risk factors, treatments, cardiovascular disease incidence, and death in 27 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study by Walli-Attaei, Marjan, Joseph, Philip, Rosengren, Annika, Chow, Clara K, Rangarajan, Sumathy, Lear, Scott A, AlHabib, Khalid F, Davletov, Kairat, Dans, Antonio, Lanas, Fernando, Yeates, Karen, Poirier, Paul, Teo, Koon K, Bahonar, Ahmad, Camilo, Felix, Chifamba, Jephat, Diaz, Rafael, Didkowska, Joanna A, Irazola, Vilma, Ismail, Rosnah, Kaur, Manmeet, Khatib, Rasha, Liu, Xiaoyun, Mańczuk, Marta, Miranda, J Jaime, Oguz, Aytekin, Perez-Mayorga, Maritza, Szuba, Andrzej, Tsolekile, Lungiswa P, Prasad Varma, Ravi, Yusufali, Afzalhussein, Yusuf, Rita, Wei, Li, Anand, Sonia S, Yusuf, Salim

“…Some studies, mainly from high-income countries (HICs), report that women receive less care (investigations and treatments) for cardiovascular disease than do…”
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Understanding caregiver burden and quality of life in Kerala's primary palliative care program: a mixed methods study from caregivers and providers' perspectives by Kochuvilayil, Arsha, Varma, Ravi Prasad

“…Family caregivers are vital for long-term care for persons with serious health-related suffering in Kerala. Long-term caregiving and ageing may become…”
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Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study by Dehghan, Mahshid, Mente, Andrew, Rangarajan, Sumathy, Sheridan, Patrick, Mohan, Viswanathan, Iqbal, Romaina, Gupta, Rajeev, Lear, Scott, Wentzel-Viljoen, Edelweiss, Avezum, Alvaro, Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio, Mony, Prem, Varma, Ravi Prasad, Kumar, Rajesh, Chifamba, Jephat, Alhabib, Khalid F, Mohammadifard, Noushin, Oguz, Aytekin, Lanas, Fernando, Rozanska, Dorota, Bostrom, Kristina Bengtsson, Yusoff, Khalid, Tsolkile, Lungiswa P, Dans, Antonio, Yusufali, AfzalHussein, Orlandini, Andres, Poirier, Paul, Khatib, Rasha, Hu, Bo, Wei, Li, Yin, Lu, Deeraili, Ai, Yeates, Karen, Yusuf, Rita, Ismail, Noorhassim, Mozaffarian, Dariush, Teo, Koon, Anand, Sonia S, Yusuf, Salim

“…Dietary guidelines recommend minimising consumption of whole-fat dairy products, as they are a source of saturated fats and presumed to adversely affect blood…”
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On the "disciplinary sanctity" of palliative care within the folds of medicine and public health by Warrier, Sreedevi, Varma, Ravi Prasad

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Factors affecting ability of TB patients to follow treatment guidelines - applying a capability approach by Chandru, B Aravind, Varma, Ravi Prasad

“…Negotiating anti-Tuberculosis treatment is a complicated process comprising daily consumption of multiple medications at stipulated times and dosages, as well…”
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“Time is Brain”—How early should surgery be done in drug‐resistant TLE? by Radhakrishnan, Ashalatha, Menon, Ramshekhar, Thomas, Sanjeev V., Abraham, Mathew, Vilanilam, George, Kesavadas, Chandrashekharan, Thomas, Bejoy, Cherian, Ajith, Varma, Ravi Prasad

“…Objectives To explore the effect of duration of epilepsy and delay in surgery on seizure outcome in patients operated for drug‐resistant temporal lobe epilepsy…”
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Urbanization and physical activity in the global Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology study by Boakye, Kwadwo, Bovbjerg, Marit, Schuna, John, Branscum, Adam, Varma, Ravi Prasad, Ismail, Rosnah, Barbarash, Olga, Dominguez, Juan, Altuntas, Yuksel, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, Yusuf, Rita, Kelishadi, Roya, Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio, Iqbal, Romaina, Serón, Pamela, Rosengren, Annika, Poirier, Paul, Lakshmi, P. V. M., Khatib, Rasha, Zatonska, Katarzyna, Hu, Bo, Yin, Lu, Wang, Chuangshi, Yeates, Karen, Chifamba, Jephat, Alhabib, Khalid F, Avezum, Álvaro, Dans, Antonio, Lear, Scott A, Yusuf, Salim, Hystad, Perry

“…Urbanization may influence physical activity (PA) levels, although little evidence is available for low- and middle- income countries where urbanization is…”
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MoCA in five Indian languages: A brief screening tool to diagnose dementia and MCI in a linguistically diverse setting by Kaul, Subhash, Paplikar, Avanthi, Varghese, Feba, Alladi, Suvarna, Sharma, Meenakshi, Dhaliwal, R. S., Goyal, Sheetal, Saroja, Aralikatte Onkarappa, Arshad, Faheem, Divyaraj, Gollahalli, Ghosh, Amitabha, Iyer, Gowri K., J, Sunitha, Khan, Arfa Banu, Kandukuri, Rajmohan, Mathew, Robert, Mekala, Shailaja, Menon, Ramshekhar, Pauranik, Apoorva, Nandi, Ranita, Narayanan, Jwala, Nehra, Ashima, Padma, M. V., Ramakrishnan, Subasree, Sarath, Lekha, Shah, Urvashi, Tripathi, Manjari, Sylaja, P. N., Varma, Ravi Prasad, Verma, Mansi, Vishwanath, Yeshaswini, Consortium, I. C. M. R‐N. C. T. B

“…Introduction and Objectives Early dementia diagnosis in low and middle‐income countries (LMIC) is challenging due to limited availability of brief, culturally…”
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Hypertension control in Kerala, India: A prescription-based study at primary and secondary level health care institutions by Sreelal, Thekkumkara Prabhakaran, Thulaseedharan, Jissa Vinoda, Nair, Sanjeev, Ravindran, Rekha Melathuparambil, Vijayakumar, Krishnapillai, Varma, Ravi Prasad

“…We undertook a prescription-based study to identify the provider and institution-level factors related to achieving guideline-recommended control of…”
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Association of dairy consumption with metabolic syndrome, hypertension and diabetes in 147 812 individuals from 21 countries by Bhavadharini, Balaji, Dehghan, Mahshid, Mente, Andrew, Rangarajan, Sumathy, Sheridan, Patrick, Mohan, Viswanathan, Iqbal, Romaina, Gupta, Rajeev, Lear, Scott, Wentzel-Viljoen, Edelweiss, Avezum, Alvaro, Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio, Mony, Prem, Varma, Ravi Prasad, Kumar, Rajesh, Chifamba, Jephat, Alhabib, Khalid F, Mohammadifard, Noushin, Oguz, Aytekin, Lanas, Fernando, Rozanska, Dorota, Bengtsson Bostrom, Kristina, Yusoff, Khalid, Tsolkile, Lungiswa P, Dans, Antonio, Yusufali, Afzalhussein, Orlandini, Andres, Poirier, Paul, Khatib, Rasha, Hu, Bo, Wei, Li, Yin, Lu, Deeraili, Ai, Yeates, Karen, Yusuf, Rita, Ismail, Noorhassim, Mozaffarian, Dariush, Teo, Koon, Anand, Sonia S, Yusuf, Salim

“…ObjectiveOur aims were to assess the association of dairy intake with prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) (cross-sectionally) and with incident…”
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Dimensional accuracy and details of the panoramic cross-sectional tomographic images: an in vitro study by Kumar, M Ashwini, Mody, Bharat, Nair, Gopa Kumar R, Surender, L R, Gopal, S Sujatha, Prasad, Ravi Varma K A

“…Transversal slicing system (TSS) of Planmeca PM 2002 CC is a tomographic technique which enables us to take cross-sectional views of jaws. Tomographic imaging…”
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Validation of ICMR Neurocognitive Toolbox for Dementia in the Linguistically Diverse Context of India by Verma, Mansi, Tripathi, Manjari, Nehra, Ashima, Paplikar, Avanthi, Varghese, Feba, Alladi, Suvarna, Narayanan, Jwala, Dhaliwal, R S, Sharma, Meenakshi, Saroja, Aralikatte Onkarappa, Arshad, Faheem, Divyaraj, Gollahalli, Ghosh, Amitabha, Manae, Tejaswini S, Mekala, Shailaja, Menon, Ramshekhar N, Hooda, Roopa, Iyer, Gowri K, Sunitha, J, Kandukuri, Rajmohan, Kaul, Subhash, Khan, Arfa Banu, Mathew, Robert, Nandi, Ranita, Padma, M V, Pauranik, Apoorva, Ramakrishnan, Subasree, Sarath, Lekha, Shah, Urvashi, Sylaja, P N, Varma, Ravi Prasad, Vishwanath, Yeshaswini

“…The growing prevalence of dementia, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), has raised the need for a unified cognitive screening tool that can…”
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Picture‐naming test for a linguistically diverse population with cognitive impairment and dementia by Paplikar, Avanthi, Varghese, Feba, Alladi, Suvarna, Vandana, V. P., Darshini, K. J., Iyer, Gowri K., Kandukuri, Rajmohan, Divyaraj, Gollahalli, Sharma, Meenakshi, Dhaliwal, R. S., Kaul, Subhash, Saroja, Aralikatte Onkarappa, Ghosh, Amitabha, Sunitha, J., Khan, Arfa Banu, Mathew, Robert, Mekala, Shailaja, Menon, Ramshekhar, Nandi, Ranita, Narayanan, Jwala, Nehra, Ashima, Padma, M. V., Pauranik, Apoorva, Ramakrishnan, Subasree, Sarath, Lekha, Shah, Urvashi, Tripathi, Manjari, Sylaja, P. N., Varma, Ravi Prasad, Verma, Mansi, Vishwanath, Yeshaswini

“…Background Picture‐naming tests (PNTs) evaluate linguistic impairment in dementia due to semantic memory impairment, impaired lexical retrieval or perceptual…”
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Factors Affecting Non-Adherence among Patients Diagnosed with Unipolar Depression in a Psychiatric Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Kolkata, India by Banerjee, Sohini, Varma, Ravi Prasad

“…Non-adherence to depression treatment is a common clinical problem globally. However, limited research is available from India. This cross-sectional study…”
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Relationship between cerebral perfusion on Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) MRI with brain volumetry and cognitive performance in mild cognitive impairment and dementia due to Alzheimer's disease by Soman, Shania, Raghavan, Sheelakumari, Rajesh, P, Varma, Ravi, Mohanan, Nandini, Ramachandran, Sushama, Thomas, Bejoy, Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan, Menon, Ramshekhar

“…Context: Cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurement using arterial spin labelling (ASL) MRI sequences has recently emerged as a prominent tool in dementia research…”
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Medication-Adherence and management of risk factors for secondary prevention of stroke using smartphone-based application: Protocol for MAMORs-randomized controlled trial by Babu, Veena, Sylaja, P, Soman, Biju, Varma, Ravi, Manju, M, Geethu, G, Kumar, B

“…Background: In LMICs, the medication adherence and risk factor control are suboptimal in the post-stroke follow-up period. With shortage of physicians,…”
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Barriers for involvement of private doctors in RNTCP - Qualitative study from Kerala, India by Nair, Sanjeev, Philip, Sairu, Varma, Ravi, Rakesh, P

“…Introduction: Engaging the private sector effectively has been considered as the single most important intervention required for Revised National TB Control…”
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Treatment in a Stroke Unit and Risk Factor Control Reduce Recurrent Stroke Risk by Shani, S.D., Varma, Ravi Prasad, Sarma, Sankara P., Sreelakshmi, R.S., Harikrishnan, Ramachandran, Kutty, V. Raman, Sylaja, P.N.

“…Introduction: Risk factor control is an important predictor of risk of stroke recurrence. The attributable fraction which estimates the excess risk among the…”
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A screening tool to detect stroke aphasia: Adaptation of frenchay aphasia screening test (FAST) to the Indian context by Paplikar, Avanthi, Iyer, Gowri, Varghese, Feba, Alladi, Suvarna, Pauranik, Apoorva, Mekala, Shailaja, Kaul, Subhash, Sharma, Meenakshi, Dhaliwal, R, Saroja, Aralikatte, Dharamkar, Santosh, Dutt, Aparna, Divyaraj, Gollahalli, Ghosh, Amitabha, Kandukuri, Rajmohan, Mathew, Robert, Menon, Ramshekhar, Narayanan, Jwala, Nehra, Ashima, Padma, M, Ramakrishnan, Subasree, Ravi, Sunil, Shah, Urvashi, Tripathi, Manjari, Sylaja, P, Varma, Ravi, ICMR Neuro-Cognitive Tool Box Consortium

“…Background: Aphasia is a common consequence of stroke. To optimize recovery, it becomes critical as there are early identification and treatment of language…”
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Does obstructive sleep apnea correlate with Epworth Sleepiness Scale in an Indian population? by Sreedharan, Sapna Erat, Vijayakumari, Anupa A., Agrawal, Pragati, Dash, Gopal Krishna, Nair, Shana N., Unnikrishnan, J. P., Varma, Ravi Prasad, Radhakrishnan, Ashalatha

“…Various demographic and clinical predictors attributing to the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in Indian subjects have not been extensively studied…”
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