Jyotsana Bharshankar

• MBBS, MD (Human Physiology)
• Professor at Government Medical College

Background Physical fitness is of utmost importance to athletes as it ensures better performance in competitive sports. Athletes who contracted COVID-19 frequently experienced persistent symptoms for weeks or months afterward. Due to the direct effects of COVID-19 infection on pulmonary, cardiovascular, and neurological systems, combined with the n...

Mining practices have evolved over a period of time and so have the new health hazard exposures. Today the physical heavy work is greatly reduced since most of the jobs are either partially or fully mechanized. Therefore, a considerable amount of time of a skilled mine worker is spent operating machinery and driving vehicles for increased productiv...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a common preventable and treatable disease characterized by persistent airflow limitation that is usually progressive. Airflow obstruction in main feature of COPD. Body mass is divided into two compartments, fat mass and fat free mass. Fat free mass mainly contain metabolically active organs particularly ske...

Introduction: Increased parasympathetic drive in asthmatics is observed by many researchers. However, some have found increased sympathetic activity and others found it decreased. Material and Methods: A case-control study was planned including 30 asthmatic patients and 30 age-matched non-asthmatics as controls. Spirometry and autonomic functions w...

Introduction: Considering the prevalence of metabolic disorders, especially in south asian people, a rapid, economical, easy and reliable method of assessment of body fat for mass screening, is the need of the hour. Aim: The aim of the present study was to derive the population and gender specific prediction equations for Body Fat percentage (BF%)...

Stress, an inevitable and constant feature throughout the lifetime, induces autonomic dysfunctions, for which meditation is considered to be an antidote. So the case control study was planned including 50 Raja-yoga meditators practicing meditation for 5 years and 50 age matched non-meditators. Autonomic function tests were performed and results wer...

Objective: The aim was to observe the effect of Raja yoga meditation on serum lipid profile and fasting blood sugar (FBS) levels in healthy adults. Material and Methods: The case-control study included total 100 participants of either sex, in the age 25-45 years. The participants were divided into two groups-meditators (50) doing Raja-yoga meditati...

Stress, an inevitable and constant feature throughout the lifetime, induces autonomic dysfunctions, for which meditation is considered to be an antidote. So the case control study was planned including 50 Raja-yoga meditators practicing meditation for 5 years and 50 age matched non-meditators. Autonomic function tests were performed and results wer...

Aim: To evaluate the hemodynamic changes in normal Indian primigravida and to observe the onset, magnitude and recovery of these changes. Method: In a prospective study, 30 primigravid women were evaluated 4 times at early, mid and late gestation and at 6 weeks postpartum. At each visit, echocardiography was performed in the left lateral decubitus...

This study was conducted to examine the effect of yoga on cardiovascular function in subjects above 40 yrs of age. Pulse rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and Valsalva ratio were studied in 50 control subjects (not doing any type of physical exercise) and 50 study subjects who had been practicing yoga for 5 years. From the study it was ob...

This study was undertaken to investigate whether there is relationship between seminal plasma transferrin and seminal parameters which included sperm count, motility and morphology. The study included 100 male subjects in the age group of 23-41 yrs including 7 proven fertility, 6 post-vasectomised and 87 subjects were of idiopathic infertility. Est...