Anil Mathew

PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research · Department of Community Medicine

Purpose: Many studies have observed a high prevalence of erectile dysfunction among individuals performing physical activity in less leisure-time. However, this relationship in patients with type 2 diabetic patients is not well studied. In exposure outcome studies with ordinal outcome variables, investigators often try to make the outcome variable...

Background: Recent studies have shown that workers on the transport industry are more predisposed to cardiovascular morbidity and other health morbidities due to their improper diet and sedentary lifestyle. This study was aimed at assessing the common morbidity profile among the truck drivers and associated demographic and clinical parameters consi...

Background: According to the recommendations from The World Health Organization, exclusive breast feeding (EBF) should be given to infants for the first six months for healthy growth and development. However, developing countries have a wide range of variation in the practice of EBF. From this study, we aim to estimate the duration of EBF and find...

Preoperative prediction of morbidity in colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery helps to optimize the surgical outcome. In this study, we aim to develop a dedicated equation for predicting operative morbidity using colorectal possum scoring system and also to validate the predictive accuracy of CR-POSSUM scoring system in prognosticating actual complicatio...

Background: There is a substantial interest in the potential role of chocolate consumption and its association with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. The objective of this study was to examine the association of consumption of chocolate with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: A case control study was conducted at PSG Hospitals betw...

Background: Anaemia is almost universal in haemodialysis patients. Here, we evaluated the utility and clinical implications of the commonly employed tests in assessing iron status in haemodialysis patients.Methods: In this prospective observational study, we enrolled 100 prevalent haemodialysis patients, and measured transferrin saturation (TSAT) a...

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the association of consumption of tea with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: A case control study was conducted at PSG Hospitals between 1stJune 2017 and 1st July 2017. All those who had newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus and attended Department of Endocrinology for follow-up visit were t...

Objectives: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a global health concern associated with high childhood morbidity and mortality; in Oman, the prevalence of SCD is 0.2%. Public awareness of SCD and the need for premarital screening (PMS) are essential to reduce the incidence of this disease. This study aimed to assess awareness of and beliefs regarding SCD...

Malnutrition in old age is a significant problem. Mini Nutritional Assessment is a widely used international questionnaire to evaluate nutritional status of elderly. However its length limits its usefulness for screening. Rubenstein and colleagues developed a six question MNA Short-Form (MNA-SF). Later Kaiser et al. proposed top 10 revised versions...

A large number of epidemiological studies reported an increase in mortality due to cancer and other diseases among lean individuals. In this paper we aimed to investigate the relationship between smoking status and Body Mass Index (BMI) in men aged 20 years and above. A cross sectional study was conducted in the rural field practice area of the A t...

The aim of this study is to investigate the possible risk factors of poor sleep quality among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus on insulin therapy. The factors considered were age, sex, body mass index (BMI), glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c), duration of diabetes and depression. A total of 202 diabetic patients aged 20 years or older were incl...

Background: The cardiac morphology and functioning undergoes a variety of changes on physical training, and it depends on the type of training the person undergoes. Endurance training and speed training are the two major classifications in it, and it is essential to know which type overruns the other in increasing the cardiac functioning. Aims and...

Hardness of water is determined by the amount of salts (calcium carbonate [CaCO3] and magnesium sulphate [MgSO4]) present in water. The hardness of the water used for washing hair may cause fragility of hair. The objective of the following study is to compare the tensile strength and elasticity of hair treated in hard water and hair treated in dist...

The aim of this investigation is to assess the validity of self-reported height and weight and to examine factors associated with errors in self-report. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, South India, from June 20 to August 20, 2011. The study involved 389 men and 355 women aged 20 years and above. We found that self-r...

Background In India, the prevalence of asthma has increased over the last two decades especially in children and young adults. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of asthma in school going children aged 5-10 and 11-15 years in the city of Coimbatore and determine the risk factors associated with it. Materials and methods A school ba...

Studies of parental atopy, exposure to pets, and the risk of asthma have provided conflicting results. We aimed to assess the relationship between asthma among adults with parental atopy, pet keeping inside, and pet keeping outside the home. This study involved a total of 159 adults. The clinically diagnosed cases were 53 adults with asthma as per...

Low back pain is a major public health problem all over the world. It is generally assumed that overweight, height and low back pain are related. However, the scientific evidence to support this relationship is not fully conclusive. The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of low back pain and its association with height, fat distributio...

Background: Detergents are used by almost every household in the developed and developing world. Soap and most detergents are anionic surfactants and attack the horny layer of the skin and increase its permeability with little or no inflammatory change and may result in hand eczema, which is very distressing and incapacitating. Aim: To evaluate...

The aim is to study the association between obesity and asthma among adults by gender. The prevalences of both asthma and obesity have increased substantially in recent decades, leading to speculation that obese individuals might be at risk of asthma. However, the evidence of a relationship between obesity and asthma is not fully conclusive among a...

Cleansing trends promise freshness, sensory and health benefits but may also be accompanied by an increase in soap-induced skin irritation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the irritant effect of 31 cleansers (28 bar soaps and 3 liquid cleansers) available in the Indian market. Eight percent w/v solutions of the soaps/cleansers were made and 3...

Skin disease leading to extensive blistering and loss of skin is associated with a characteristic smell. Odor can cause physiologic disturbances such as increase in heart rate and respiratory rate. It can also cause nausea and vomiting and is disturbing to bystanders. To test odor reducing capability of activated charcoal. In this blinded experimen...

A variety of methods is available for analyzing repeated measurements data in clinical research. However, there is little information on how established methods, such as the summary statistics approach, the unstructured multivariate approach, profile analysis, and repeated measures ANOVA compare in practice. We compared the results by application t...

Fissure feet are a common condition; however, no effective therapy is available to date. This study was undertaken to study the effect of occlusion using 2″ micropore tapes in the management of fissure soles. The study was an open-paired, controlled study and included 26 volunteers with fissure feet. Fissures were graded separately over the right a...

Background : The current WHO recommendation is to use the Z-Score or SD system to grade undernutrition which allows us to measure all the three indices and express the results in terms of Z scores or standard deviation units from the median of the international reference population. Objectives : To estimate the prevalence of undernutrition among un...

Iontophoresis increases the penetration of drugs into the skin by electric current. The ability of topical steroids to reduce the size of the histamine wheal was used to assess the efficacy of topical dexamethasone delivered with and without iontophoresis. To determine the wheal suppressing ability of dexamethasone delivered with and without iontop...

Very few studies have been conducted to assess the effect of corticosteroid application frequency to attain maximum benefit with minimum side-effects. Compare the efficacy of twice-daily, once-daily and alternate-day applications of clobetasol propionate (0.05%) and compare whether an initial once-daily application followed by a subsequent alternat...

Autonomic dysfunction, an early manifestation of diabetic neuropathy, presents with altered sweating patterns, leading to dryness and fissuring. We conducted a study to assess the sweat function in the diabetic foot and to determine the interrelation between the duration of diabetes, sensation, fissuring, and sweating. The sweat function was assess...

Steroids when left on the skin for longer duration may contribute to the side effects without any additional clinical benefit. The relationship between the duration of topical steroid contact with the skin and its effectiveness has not been established. The ability of the topical steroids to inhibit the size of histamine induced wheal was used to a...

Henoch schonlein purpura was suspected in 18 cases from July 1997 to July 1999. Histopathology and immunofluorescence confirmed the diagnosis. The incidence in India is not known. However, an incidence of 1.2 per million is reported from Suffolk UK. We report an incidence of 3 per million from July 1997 to 1998 and 7 per million from July 1998 to 1...

Between December 1997 and February 1999, 150 patients who had the left radial artery as one of the conduits for coronary artery bypass graft surgery were randomly divided into 3 groups of 50 each. Group A received a left supraclavicular block with 20 mL of 1.5% lidocaine with adrenaline (1 in 200,000), and 10 mL of 0.25% bupivacaine. Group B receiv...

Fissuring of feet is a common but neglected problem in India. In this paper an attempt has been made to determine the prevalence of fissuring of feet in a rural village in Tamilnadu. In addition the relationship of fissuring to age, sex, occupation, non-use of footwear and weight is determined Over all prevalence is found to be 48% for age's 15 yea...

Improved approximations for the person years lived at infant and childhood ages have been obtained for regional model life tables and model life tables of developing countries. Using Weibull parametrization, the refined estimates have been arrived at and compared with the originals. The improved estimates are presented in this paper for users.