Excess maternal and child mortality is the outcome of poor service quality. Though achieving universal health coverage including financial risk protection is a specific SDG health target, financing the increasing expenditure for quality health care is challenging for developing countries. Due to varying health service promoting strategy and economic condition, public financing and health care Read More
The emergence of anatomically modern Homo sapiens in South Asia is hotly debated due to a great gap in fossil record. A solitary partial cranium from Hathnora dated around 250 Kya is debated and conveniently interpreted as evolved Homo erectus or archaic Homo sapiens or Homo heidelbergensis or even Homo indet. Cranial fossils of Pre-Toba Read More
Prostate disorders such as benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) and prostate cancer are most common in older men, others such as prostatitis occur more in younger men following infections in most cases. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between prostate volumes for age and some abnormal consequential urological parameters such as intravesical prostatic protrusion (IVPP), Read More
Background Hemoglobin E (Hb E) is the most common hemoglobin variant in Southeast Asia as well as in Northeast India. Frequency of Hb E is examined among some population groups of Northeast India. Methods Nine endogamous groups, from different parts of Northeast India, were studied. Blood samples were examined in the laboratory following capillary electrophoresis Read More
Background and objectives: Association of obesity with elevated blood lipids is well documented in many studies. Obesity in general considered as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. This study examines obesity and lipids in an adult peri-urban caste population namely the Paundra Kshatriya of Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Material and Methods: Altogether 240 Read More
Tim Ryan Maloney and colleagues reported in the Nature magazine on September 7, 2022, the case of surgical removal of the lower limb of a child some 31000 years BP. The find of skeletal remains was of a person laid to rest in a burial from Liang Tebo cave, which is located in East Kalimantan, Read More
Svante Pääbo, a Swedish human geneticist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the year 2022 for his work on sequencing Neanderthal Genome. His work is based on 40000 year old extracted DNA from Neanderthal bones. There was a great risk of this DNA being contaminated with living human DNA. To Read More
The modern humans are supposed to have intermixed with Neanderthals and gene flow occurred among them around 60,000 to 50,000 years before present in the Southwest Asia region.On the possibility of regular mixing of modern humans with the extinct relatives like Neanderthals in Eurasia,VivianeSlon of the University of Tel Aviv in Israel said that it Read More
Background: Obesity confers a significant threat on the cardio-metabolic health of individuals. Obesity is measured in terms of general obesity and central obesity. People generally have acquaintance with the term ‘Body Mass Index’ or BMI and are, therefore, more aware of maintaining their normal BMI. Nevertheless, they put little emphasis on the concept of ‘central Read More
Women are generally vulnerable to undernutrition especially during pregnancy and lactation where the food and nutrient requirements are more during that period. The demographic consequences of the lower status in women have found expression in various forms such as female infanticide, higher mortality rate for women compared to men, lower sex ratio, literacy rate in Read More
Poor nutritional status as well as excess adiposity levels are the major public health concerns in the developing country such as India. The aims of the present cross-sectional study were to assess prevalence of under-nutrition and overweight/obesity among women belonging to the Bengalee Hindu Kayastha Population (BHKP). The study was carried out among 200 adult Read More
Assessment of nutritional status of a community is important for understanding their health condition. Nutritional status of a community is dependent on both biological and socio-cultural factors of the society. Moreover, the nutritional status within the community may vary by age and sex. This paper is an attempt to study the nutritional status of adult Read More
Background and objectives: A positive association between body mass index and systolic blood pressure as well as body mass index and diastolic blood pressure is well documented by many studies. This study examines blood pressure and body mass index in a tribal population namely the Bhatra of Chhattisgarh. Material and Methods: A total of 144 Read More
Background: The concurrent prevalence of undernutrition, overweight and obesity is a creation of a double burden of malnutrition on the populations of several developing countries including India. The anthropometric measure, the Body mass index (BMI) is most widely used indicator because its investigation is inexpensive, non-invasive, and suitable for large-scale epidemiological and clinical investigations. The objectives of the present Read More
Tuberculosis outweighed HIV and malaria in global deaths with an alarming figure of 1.4 million in 2015. Looking at the new cases, South East Asia and Africa accounted for about 60% of the reported cases which were mainly distributed in India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. Way behind the projected target of 4-5% Read More
It is understandable that different populations may have differential susceptibilities and health risks for similar ranges of body-mass index (BMI) just as other morphological and physiological parameters do. A WHO specialist group investigated the issue for redefining the BMI ranges. The findings were published in Lancet (Lancet 2004; 363: 157–63) which indicated that the risk Read More
There are two different sets of recommendations for designating adults in the normal range for Body Mass Index, i.e., 18.5 to 24.99 and 18.5 to 22.99 by World Health Organization. Some scientists are advocating that in case of Asians the normal range for Body Mass Index should be from 18.5 to 22.99. Which one to Read More
El Niño events have been occurring for hundreds of years, but have recently become a point of huge concern for the human race and the global climate. For the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, warm water currents on their coastline bring scarcity of fish and heavy rainfall which occurs every three four years and are Read More
Body composition is an important factor in identifying populations at risk of metabolic disease including type-2 diabetes in South Asian children. Many equations for calculating body-fat percentage (BF %) from anthropometric methods have been developed among South-Asian children. The objective of this study was to compare the BF % derived from two different methods obtained Read More