Anurag Chaudhary

Anurag Chaudhary
Dayanand Medical College & Hospital · Department of Community Medicine

MBBS MD Community Medicine

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Risk assessment of subjects using IDRS showed that 9.9% were at low risk of diabetes while 58.6% and 31.5% were at moderate and high risk of diabetes respectively.
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Objectives: Hypertension (HTN) management guidelines recommend home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) as an important tool for BP control. Limited data exists on HBPM epidemiology among people with HTN and their caregivers in the Indian context. Methods: The current study was conducted across three North Indian centres to evaluate the prevalence, tr...
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Introduction Scabies affects 200–300 million individuals annually around the globe and it is a serious public health issue causing social stigmatisation in patients. With this background and its substantial impact on morbidity, this study was undertaken with the objective to find the demographic profile, clinical morphology and quality of life in p...
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Context Worldwide malnutrition is identified as a major health and nutrition problem. Undernutrition contributes to an estimated 45% of child deaths globally. The prevalence of underweight among children in India is among the highest in the world. Our children also bear a tremendous double burden of malnutrition. Aims To find out the prevalence an...
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Background: Vaccination is among the most important public health tools for preventing the harm caused by communicable diseases. This was particularly true in the case of COVID-19 vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no vaccine is 100% effective, and all carry the risk of breakthrough infection in vaccinated individuals. Methodology:...
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Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors affecting adherence to antidiabetic medication among diabetic patients in India. Setting and Design A qualitative study was conducted among 40 diabetic patients aged >30 years, on treatment for more than a year without any complications in the Urban Health Centre of Dayanand Medical College and...
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Background: The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues its deadly reign all over the world. Devising effective strategies for detecting and controlling the infection has become ever more critical. Effective prevention and control of the pandemic is entirely dependent on human behavior in terms of practicing preventive and curative meas...
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Introduction: Domestic violence against women is the most pervasive human rights violation in the world today. Almost two out of five ever married women in India are subject to spousal violence. Objectives: To estimate the extent of problem in married women attending OPD at Urban Health Centre.To ascertain various epidemiological factors associated...
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The present study was carried out in 10 villages of a rural area of Ludhiana, Punjab. It was a cross sectional study. A total of 2465 married females constituted the study sample. The variables studied were age, education of husband, education of subject, type of family, parity, and number of male children. There were 12.9% non users, 49.5% were us...
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Background: Diabetes is one of the leading killers among noncommunicable diseases of the present time and poses a considerable burden to the society in terms of public health. The Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) can be used as a risk assessment tool to estimate the population at risk and plan appropriate interventions. The present study was condu...
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Introduction In this era of epidemiological transition where noncommunicable diseases are on a significant rise, cancer is a major public health problem globally. Out of all cancers, breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide. Aim To determine the knowledge of breast cancer and its risk factors and breast self-examination (BSE) pract...
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INTRODUCTION W orldwide, cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer in women. The WHO estimated 5,70,000 new cases in the year 2018 and 7.5% of all female cancer deaths due to carcinoma cervix. [1] In India, Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women. Nearly 96,922 new cervical cancer cases are diagnosed and 60,078 deaths...
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Background: Diabetes is one of the leading killers among noncommunicable diseases of the present time and poses a considerable burden to the society in terms of public health. The Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) can be used as a risk assessment tool to estimate the population at risk and plan appropriate interventions. The present study was cond...
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Psychiatric disorders are frequent among people with epilepsy but often under-recognized. The diagnosis and treatment of these disorders in low-and low-middle-income countries (LMICs) are challenging. Methods: This cross-sectional survey included people recruited during a community epilepsy screening program involving 59,509 individuals from poor c...
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Psychiatric disorders are frequent among people with epilepsy but often under-recognized. The diagnosis and treatment of these disorders in low- and low-middle-income countries (LMICs) are challenging. Methods This cross-sectional survey included people recruited during a community epilepsy screening program involving 59,509 individuals from poor...
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Contact tracing in Ludhiana during COVID
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Rapid antigen test has a very important value as one of tools to address the Covid pandemic. Though this test is not as accurate as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. As viral antigen appears before antibody formation in infected person. It is a specific marker of virus. Therefore, for detection of this highly infectious disease at an early s...
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Background: There is an increasing burden of hypertension in India. The complications arising from hypertension mainly occur due to non-adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. Adherence to pharmacotherapy for hypertension varies from 43-88%. Various socio-demographic factors influence non-adherence. This study determined...
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Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is considered one of the growing public health problems. Identification of HCV-associated risk factors is pivotal for developing appropriate prevention strategies. Objectives: To determine the epidemiological variables of HCV infection in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: This hospital-based case-...
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Context: The ongoing corona pandemic has created medical crises all over the world. An increased surge in the number of COVID-19 cases was observed in the month of August, September and October 2020. Punjab has around 10 Lakh migrant workers. Intensive rapid antigen testing was done during this surge among factory workers. With this background, th...
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Background: Depression is the leading cause of disease-related disability among women in the world today. It is much more common among women than men. Very few data are available on depression among housewives in India. Therefore, this study was planned to study the epidemiological co-relates of depression among housewives in rural area of district...
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Background & Objective: Proper mask wearing reduces the transmissibility and risk of Covid-19 infection still compliance to mask use is low. This study was conducted to observe the mask usage pattern, perception and barriers to effective mask usage (EMU). Settings and Design: This cross-sectional study was conducted in collaboration with district p...
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Introduction: Knowledge is the beginning of prevention, and transformation of knowledge into preventive practices. Knowledge, attitude and practice surveys among populations provide useful information about community behaviour in prevention and control of infectious diseases like Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Aim: To assess the knowledge, pe...
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Background: The demographic profile of patients with Maxillary sinusitis undergoing surgical intervention in the state of Punjab was analyzed. The emphasis was on the age, gender and clinical presentation in this prospective study. Methods: In this prospective study 64 patients with maxillary sinusitis, were randomly selected from the Rhinology cli...
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Background: The demographic profile of patients with frontal sinusitis undergoing surgical intervention in the state of Punjab was analysed. The emphasis was on the age, gender and clinical presentation in this prospective study.Methods: In this prospective study 85 patients of clinically diagnosed frontal sinusitis were randomly selected from the...
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The spread of COVID-19 pandemic poses a great challenge to health care organizations and unprecedented need for information. This study aims to identify possible factors causing delay and losing precious time during diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 at home and health facility level. It also aims to highlight perceptions and experiences of family...
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Objectives To describe clinical characteristics of a community‐based epilepsy cohort from resource‐limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India. Methods The cohort was gathered following a two‐stage screening survey. We cross‐sectionally examined and followed up the cohort for one year. A panel of neurologists assigned seizure types, syndromes,...
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Background and Aims: The burden of healthcare‐associated infections (HAIs) is very high and compliance with infection control practices is poor in low and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Hand hygiene (HH) being the most important measure to prevent HAIs, the present study was conducted to assess the gap in knowledge, perceptions, and practices of...
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Objectives: To describe clinical characteristics of a community‐based epilepsy cohort from resource‐limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India. / Methods: The cohort was gathered following a two‐stage screening survey. We cross‐sectionally examined and followed up the cohort for one year. A panel of neurologists assigned seizure types, syndrome...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting both sexes differently in terms of morbidity and mortality. Data from all over the world highlights males as most vulnerable, but the physical, mental and social suffering of women during this pandemic is getting little mention in the literature. Problems like domestic violence are on the rise, especially during t...
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Background It is a matter of grave concern that a girl child continues to be insecure and vulnerable in the state of Punjab. To ingrain gender equality in social system, it is very important to make community an important stakeholder to deal with the situation. This study focuses on the awareness and perceptions of anganwadi workers regarding girl...
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Introduction: In India, due to some barriers, the parents are not willing to vaccinate their children which lead to 3.2 million of children still not being vaccinated.
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Background: Under nutrition is important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. In India burden of underweight children in under 5 years of age is still 35.7% (NFHS-4) and is 22% in Punjab which is still considered to be a major public health problem. Thus this study was planned to find prevalence and risk factors of under nutrition in under 3...
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Background: Tobacco use is one of the major preventable causes of deaths globally. Although India responded early to combat this global problem by implementing Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), there is a need to evaluate its implementation. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the compliance and awareness of the to...
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Background: The availability and affordability of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are critical to the success of public health initiatives enabling care for people with epilepsy in the community. Objective: To pilot survey the availability and affordability of AEDs in the community. Methods: Field workers used standard WHO-Health Action Internation...
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Context: Peer-assisted teaching and learning (PTL) is being experimented in different medical universities worldwide. It is a learner-centered approach involving students through active learning strategies. Aims: To study the student perception of PTL in methods such as group-led seminars and fishbowls, in classroom through various interactive a...
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Introduction: Bioethical principals are an integral part of medical practice. Young doctors face a lot of ethical dilemmas during their budding years highlighting the need for bioethics teaching during undergraduate period. The present study was done to evaluate the basic knowledge and attitude of MBBS students about bio-ethics and its inclusion in...
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Introduction: Birth weight is a strong predictor for ensuring healthy life of a newborn and is affected by various maternal and social determinants. The study was planned to analyze the pattern of birth weight of newborns and to identify possible factors affecting birth weight. Materials and Methods: A community based retrospective cohort study was...
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Introduction: Birth weight is a strong predictor for ensuring healthy life of a newborn and is affected by various maternal and social determinants. The study was planned to analyze the pattern of birth weight of newborns and to identify possible factors affecting birth weight.
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Objective There are no community based, longitudinal, intra individual epidemiological studies on effect of weather and season on blood pressure. We evaluated the effect of season and temperature on prevalence and epidemiology of BP in tropical climate. Methods and results It was a longitudinal cross sectional survey of rural and urban subjects in...
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Introduction In India, little is known about the reproductive behavior during earlier years of married life of women, when they are more vulnerable to reproductive ill health and early child bearing with very few interventions available. Objective The objective of this study is to follow a cohort of newly married women immediately after marriage u...
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Background: Peer-assisted learning (PAL) is a teaching-learning method in which students act as peer teachers and help other students to learn while also themselves learning by teaching. PAL through modified interest building activities (MIBAs) is seldom tried in teaching pathology in medical colleges. This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness o...
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Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are leading cause of non communicable deaths in India. CVD risk prediction charts by World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) are designed for implementing timely preventive measures. The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of CVD risk parameters and to estim...
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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease requiring prolonged treatment and poor adherence to a prescribed treatment increases the risk of morbidity, mortality and spread of disease in the community. Objective was to study factors associated with treatment outcome in adult Tuberculosis patients on directly observed treatment short (DO...
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Background: HIV continues to be a major global public health problem, having claimed millions of lives so far. In a hospital setting all those who come in direct (nurses, doctors) or indirect (technicians) patient care can become source of transmission of HIV. So, having knowledge about HIV and adhering to the infection control measures is very imp...
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Background: Diabetes is one of the leading killers in non-communicable diseases of the present time, thus, poses a considerable burden to the society in terms of public health. India heads the world with over 32 million diabetic patients and this number is projected to increase to 79.4 million by the year 2030. Keeping in view the alarming rise in...
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Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe and dehydrating diarrhea in children aged under 5 years. We undertook this hospital-based surveillance study to examine the possible relationship between the severity of diarrhea and the various G-group rotaviruses circulating in India. Stool samples (n = 2,051) were systematically collected from 4,711 child...
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Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is emerging as a public health problem among low and middle income countries. Recent trends show that these risk factors are spreading fast from urban to rural populations. Objectives: The present study was conducted to assess the cardiovascular risk among adults aged ≥40 years, utilizing the WHO/ISH risk c...
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Background: Obesity is a complex, multi-factorial chronic disease. Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk for global deaths. Objectives: To find the prevalence and risk factors for obesity in women aged 20-60 years in Ludhiana city. Methods: The present study is a community based cross sectional study carried out in an urban area of...
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BACKGROUND Ageing is a natural process. By 2020, the number of people aged 60 years and older will outnumber children younger than 5 years in the entire world. This natural phenomenon of population ageing is rampant in developing countries like India while data and studies regarding health conditions and prevalence of multimorbidity is lacking....
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BACKGROUND Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) are recruited under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme for a population of 400- 800 in rural/urban areas and 300-800 in tribal areas. The key functions of AWWs include nutrition and health education, growth monitoring, health check-ups, assisting ANMs in provision of health care services, immun...
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Background: Anxiety and depressive disorders constitute a substantial proportion of the global burden of disease and are projected to form the second most common cause of disability by 2020. Objective: To assess the level of depression and anxiety among middle age women and the possible factors behind it. Materials and methods: A total of 180...
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Background: Early diagnosis and proper treatment under RNTCP guidelines, forms the mainstay of management of a TB patient. A large proportion of patients with presumptive tuberculosis (TB) visit a Private Practitioner (PP) in the first place. Studies have shown that PPs rely more on X-rays and other diagnostic tools rather than referring the patien...
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Modern healthcare systems are seeking to adopt a more client - oriented approach to the delivery of healthcare. Assessment of patient satisfaction is critical for efficient planning and monitoring of the healthcare system. Healthcare accessibility, quality of care provided, and its cost are the three domains of high priority which influence patient...
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Background: Infant and young child feeding practices directly affect the nutritional status of children under two years of age and, ultimately, impact child survival. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the WHO infant and child feeding indicators in a rural area of Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Methods: A community based cross sectiona...
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INTRODUCTION: “Drug abuse” is defined as self - administration of a drug for non - medical reasons, in quantities and frequencies which may impair an individual’s ability to function effectively and which may result in social, physical, or emotional harm. About 190 million people all over the world consume one drug or the other. Drug abuse causes i...
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Background Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children aged <5 years globally, with an estimated 25 million outpatient visits and 2 million hospitalizations attributable to rotavirus infections each year. The aim of this hospital-based surveillance was to summarize the local epidemiological and virological features of...
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Background: Menopause is a reproductive milestone in a woman’s life but it also is a critical juncture when women not only experience biological changes but concurring social and psychological changes. Menopause has also been listed as a disease in ICD-10. Objective: To study the epidemiological determinants of age at natural menopause in rural wo...
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Background: The worldwide prevalence of diabetes mellitus has risen dramatically in the developing countries over the past two decades. It's a serious public health problem that threatens the quality of life of patients, the success of long-term maintenance therapy for diabetes depends largely on the patients' compliance with a therapeutic plan. Ma...
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Purpose: To assess the association between epilepsy and exposure to the parasites, Toxocara canis and Taenia solium in a slum-community in India. Methods: A door-to-door survey to determine the prevalence of epilepsy was carried out by trained field workers. For every case, one age- and gender-matched control was selected from the same community. S...
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Although the Indian girl child's position is precarious throughout the country, she remains the most vulnerable in Punjab. To assess the awareness and perceptions of school children regarding female feticide. Crosssectional study. The study involved collection of information regarding knowledge and perception of school students about female feticid...