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Frailty is associated with longer hospital stay and increased mortality in hospitalized older patients
With the onset of frailty, there is often a rapid, progressive, and self-perpetuating downward spiral towards death. Frailty has enormous impact on acute hospital care and has been shown to be a more effective...
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Retroperitoneal Castleman’s disease mimicking soft tissue tumour
Castleman’s disease is a type of non-neoplastic lymphoproliferative disease having lymph nodal hyperplasia. It has two distinct microscopic types: hyaline-vascular type and plasma cell type. Clinically, it may...
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Nitric oxide and cell adhesion molecules in essential hypertension: a case control study
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Modeling Bacterial Species Abundance from Small Community Surveys
Taxon abundance patterns are a central focus in evolution and ecology, providing the basic architecture of natural assemblages and potential clues to their formative processes. To better interpret species abun...
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Apolipoprotein C3 SstI polymorphism in the risk assessment of CAD
Various population studies have reported the association of rare S2 allele of apolipoprotein C3 (APOC3) SstI polymorphism with hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) and coronary artery disease (CAD). We were the first to re...
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Study of apolipoproteinc3 Sstl polymorphism in healthy volunteers from Northern India
Several studies including a small case-control (hypertriglyceridemic/normotriglyceridemic individuals) study by us revealed close association between rare S2 allele ofAPOC3 Sstl polymorphism and hypertriglyceride...
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Reversal of Coronary Atherosclerosis by Yoga Lifestyle Intervention
Yoga has potential for benefit for patients with coronary artery disease though objective, angiographic studies are lacking. We evaluated possible role of lifestyle modification incorporating yoga, on retardat...
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Open AccessApolipoprotein C3 SstI polymorphism and triglyceride levels in Asian Indians
A close association between Sst I polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of the apolipoproteinC3 (APOC3 ) gene and levels of plasma triglycerides (TG) had been reported by different investigators. Hypertrigly...
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Polymorphism (C677T) in the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene: A preliminary study on north Indian men
An elevated level of plasma homocysteine, sulfur containing amino acid generated through demethylation of methionine has been widely accepted as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The increase can...
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Evaluation of routine laboratory methods in the diagnosis of tubercular lymphadenitis
Lymph node biopsies from 64 cases suspected of Tuberculosis were subjected to fluorescent smear microscopy, culture and histopathology. Fluorescent microscopy was found to be the most sensitive technique (32.8...
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Volvulus of the small bowel due to ascaris