Althaf Ali

Medical College Trivandrum · Department of Community Medicine

Background Hypertension is a significant contributor to mortality in India. Achieving better hypertension control rate at the population level is critical in reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Methods Hypertension control rate was defined as the proportion of patients with their blood pressure under control (systolic blood pressure <...

Background: Sexual health has been recognised as an essential dimension of health. Therefore, sexual health training of health care providers assumes a significant role. The present study was conducted to assess the attitudes and perceptions of final-year medical students regarding sexual health history taking at a medical college in Oman. Methods:...

Background: Sexual health has been recognised as an essential dimension of health. Therefore, sexual health training of health care providers assumes a significant role. The present study was conducted to assess the attitudes and perceptions of final-year medical students regarding sexual health history taking at a medical college in Oman. Methods:...

Background Hypertension is a significant contributor to mortality in India. Adequate control of hypertension is important to prevent cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Methods We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based, non-interventional studies published between 2001 and 2020. We screened records from PubMed, Emba...

We posit from our ecological analysis of COVID-19 trends that the focus on returning international emigrants helped the Indian State of Kerala to successfully mitigate transmission from emigrants. However, the State’s failure to prevent SARS-COV-2 seeding by returning domestic migrants from other States of India led to extensive community transmiss...

Background: Community based approach to palliative care considers home based care as the corner stone of palliative care services. To ensure the services available and accessible to all, thrust should be given for a primary health care based approach. However there is an acute shortage of trained manpower. The primary health care physicians need to...

The study was aimed to assess the basic life support skills of interns in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Kerala and to evaluate the effectiveness of a skill training package in improving their cognitive skills. Methods: 92 medical students who have recently completed their internship were enrolled in this interventional study. Each skills tra...

India has the third-highest COVID-19 burden. Hosting the Sabarimala pilgrimage of an estimated 25 million can compromise the near-mitigated but fragile COVID-19 status of the host State of Kerala, accelerate the ongoing outbreaks in other states of India, and potentially in multiple countries with emigrants from Kerala.

Big Data is pertaining to a huge volume, complex growing data with multiple and autonomous resources in the fast developments of the distributed applications, websites and data collection capacity. The immense increase creates challenges in suggesting users appropriate information need of their interest in terms of web link or web pages for their q...

Introduction : Type 2 Diabetes is a lifestyle related disease and a major risk factor for Cardio Vascular Diseases (CVDs). A very limited number of published studies indicate high prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes in the state of Kerala. This study was done in the Neyyattinkara taluk of south Kerala by including coastal, mid land and high land regions...

Skin diseases are common among school children worldwide. However, limited information is available about the socioeconomic correlates that contribute to their development among school children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Objectives: to identify the prevalent transmissible and non-transmissible skin disorders among male primary school chi...