20 articles in this issue
Kalpita Shringarpure, Amit Agrawal
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S N Dwivedi, Mona Pathak
Rahul Sinha, Amit Agrawal
Enakshi Ganguly, Pawan K Sharma, Clareann H Bunker
Background: Acute diarrhea accounts for a huge burden of infectious diseases in under-five children. Objective: This systematicreview was carried out to study the prevalence and associated risk factors of diarrhea among Indian children aged <5 years.Me... see more
Manju Mary Varghese, Saji James, Latha Ravichandran, Elayaraja Sivaprakasam, Anitha Palaniyandi, Samantha Balaji
Introduction: The period of adolescence needs special attention because of the turmoil an adolescent faces at different stages ofdevelopment, different circumstances and needs, and diverse problems. In India, there are multiple restrictions and taboos rel... see more
Ajay Kumar
Background: As many countries including India become polio-free, Guillain–Barre syndrome (GBS) becomes the most commoncause of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Objective: To describe the socio-epidemiology and causes of AFP cases reported from atertiary... see more
Sambhaji Chandrakant Chate, Mamta Manglani, Mona Pate, Bhavin Jankharia
Background: Cardiac failure secondary to transfusional iron overload is the most common cause of death in patients with thalassemia. Earlydetection of myocardial iron deposition is necessary to prevent overt heart failure. Objective: Assessment of myocard... see more
O Kayode-Adedeji Babatunde, O Alikah Sylvester, E Akhige Irene
Background: Over 90% of the neonatal deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, includingNigeria. Prematurity is related to more than one-third of these deaths on a global scale; with the extremely low birth weight (EL... see more
Abhishek Roy, Kalyanbrata Mandal, Sandip Sen, Toshibananda Bag
Introduction: Sub-Himalayan Tarai region of India is an endemic area for viral meningoencephalitis where rising trend of diseaseprevalence has been observed over last 3 years. Objective: This study was conducted to find the viral etiology, clinical profil... see more
R M Mandlik, S A Chiplonkar, V V Khadilkar, S Phanse- Gupte, Z M Mughal, V G Patwardhan, A V Khadilkar
Background: Infections are an important cause of morbidity in rural India. Reports on the prevalence of infections in older childrenand their effects on growth are scarce. Objective: The objectives were to determine the prevalence of common infections amo... see more
Mullai Vasanthan, Saji James, S Shuba, J Abhinayaa, Elayaraja Sivaprakasam
Background: Childhood poisoning covers the entire gamut from accidental ingestion in toddlers and preschool children to intentionaloverdosage in adolescents. The poisons range from fuel to drugs and other chemicals. Objective: To determine the epidemiolog... see more
Soma Venkatesh, Natarajan Pachaiappan, Vanitha Ramalingam
Background: In spite of the rapid economic growth of India in recent years, the health of our children is being challenged by thetroublesome duo of over nutrition and undernutrition. Determination of the magnitude of this problem needs uniform and represe... see more
Mukesh Vir Singh, Durgesh Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Kusum Lata, K M Shukla, Sangeeta Varshney
Background: The immune status of children is always affected by nutrition. Sometime severe malnutrition is associated with falsenegative Mantoux test. There is a need to study to observe the effect of nutritional status on the size of indurations in Manto... see more
Rutva Harish Fatnani, Sunil Kumar B Minajagi, Chandrika Rao, K M Satish Kumar
Background: Sleep is an integral part of any healthy individual and sleep problems can affect the intellectual abilities including theperformance at school. Objectives: We studied the sleep problems among school going children in the age group of 6-16 yea... see more
J Deepak, K L Aravind, Gowri Shankar, M Narendrababu
Background: Children are vulnerable to a wide range of bicycle-related traumatic injuries. Bicycle handlebar injuries often causediagnostic dilemma and delay in diagnosis due to trivial nature of the incident. Objectives: To study the bicycle handlebar in... see more
G N Sanjeeva, Alkarani T Patil, Pragalatha Kumar
Background: Adolescents are the future citizens of a country, and it is imperative to systematically address their needs. The prevalenceof abuse including physical and sexual, by these adolescents as well as against them, have been increased. Objective: T... see more
P S Thammanna, M Sandeep, P V Sridhar
Background: Diarrhea remains one of the leading global causes of death among children under the age of 5 years; diarrhea and theresultant mortality from it is both preventable and treatable. Proper knowledge regarding the use of oral rehydration salt solu... see more
Aarti Sareen, Prerna Aggarwal, Kusum Mahajan
Objectives: To study, the bacterial profile in cases of neonatal sepsis admitted to the neonatal nursery or neonatal intensive care unit(NICU) and to identify the risk factors for early-onset neonatal sepsis. Design: Retrospective survey of hospital recor... see more
G Reetha, P Ravikumar, P Mahesh
Objective: To find out the spectrum of pituitary hormonal abnormalities in children with primary empty sella syndrome. Materials andMethods: This retrospective observational hospital-based study was carried out in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Childr... see more
Manas Pratim Roy