Tari Pramanik

• Indonesia University of Education

Peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of type 2 diabetes in patients with poor diabetic control where reaction time increases in comparison to normal individual. Early detection of neural dysfunction denoted by increased reaction time will be helpful for the patient, to control blood sugar in order to avoid diabetic complications. This stu...

Young apparently healthy, sedentary non smokers [male students (n)=100, female students (n) =100 of age group 18-22 years] from undergraduate student of Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal were selected to assess the heath status. The Queen’s College step test was performed on a stool of 16.25 inches (or 41.3 cm) height for a total duration of...

Preeclampsia is a serious pregnancy complication characterized by hypertension, proteinuria with or without pathological edema. According to some studies, serum uric acid lacks sensitivity and specificity as a diagnostic tool whereas another group of the researchers indicated uricemia as a predictor of preeclampsia in pregnant ladies. The present s...

Hypertension is recognized as one of the risk factors for cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Early identification of persons at increased risk for developing hypertension is a priority, which help them, to live a healthy life by altering lifestyle. Persons having predisposing factors of hypertension (e.g., family history of hypertension) show...

Color vision deficiency, most of the time remains an unnoticed problem; even many doctors/health professionals do not know the severity of their color vision deficiency and their disability. Some common difficulties reported by medical practitioners and students of health sciences were in recognizing- widespread body color changes (pallor, cyanosis...

The present study was undertaken to predict the persons prone to suffer from early onset of hypertension. Healthy sedentary volunteers (age 18-25 years) having normal blood pressure were asked about their history of familial hypertension, smoking-habit, alcohol consumption, existing worries/anxieties; these being the predisposing factors of hyperte...

The use of Internet for education, recreation and communication is increasing day by day. Nevertheless, the possibility of exploitation and addiction leading to impairment in academic performance and emotional balance cannot be denied, especially among young population. The study was aimed to measure the degree of Internet addiction among a group o...

Chilblains (Perniosis/Pernio) is characterized by painful red-to-purple papular lesions involving the fingers or toes due to non-freezing damp cold that resolves with symptomatic treatment. As in winters, cold is moderate to severe in Kathmandu, this retrospective study was undertaken to find out the incidence of chilblains cases, seeking health ca...

Introduction: Primary dysmenorrhoea is one of the major problems associated with menstruation among the young undergraduate medical students which affect their daily routine. Among various causes, mental stress is one of the major causes of primary dysmenorrhoea. This study aims to assess the relationship between the degree of stress and incidence...

Vital capacity, frequently measured clinically as an index of pulmonary function, gives useful information about the strength of respiratory muscles and other aspects of lung functions. It is generally noted in sitting position. As in the supine position, respiratory excursions of diaphragm is highest in normal breathing, this study was planned to...

The study was carried out to establish the anti-stress effect of Pueraria tuberosa in relation to the levels of plasma corticosterone and norepinephrine (NE), dopamine (DA) and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in whole brain and hypothalamus and compared with Withania somnifera (adaptogen). Adult male Wistar rats pretreated with 70% hydroethanolic extrac...

The study was carried out to evaluate the immediate effect Bhramari pranayama, a slow breathing exercise for 5 minutes on heart rate and blood pressure. Heart rate and blood pressure of volunteers were recorded. The subject was directed to inhale slowly up to the maximum for about 5 seconds and then to exhale slowly up to the maximum for about 15 s...

Color vision deficiency, most of the time remains an unnoticed problem; although it is not very rare. The faculty of appreciation of color is essential for our smooth daily activities. Unfortunately, even many doctors do not know the severity of their color vision deficiency and tend to assume it as slight, and a few, as in the general population,...

The present study was undertaken to assess the difference between the normal predicted value and observed value of pulmonary function test (PFT) amongst the asthmatic patients and also to compare the aforesaid observed values between male and female asthmatic patients. Clinically diagnosed cases (male 62, female 75) of bronchial asthma attending me...

The dry eye syndrome is a common eye symptom causing blurry vision. To meet the demand of the modem world students and professionals are compelled to expose themselves to the computer screen for long stretch of time, which is one of the causes of dry eye. It is not always feasible to instil eyes with artificial tears time to time to protect them fr...

Background: Early detection of proneness to hypertension may help an individual to lead a healthy life by altering the life style. Subjects having the predisposing factors of hypertension tend to show higher and prolonged responsiveness to blood pressure following stress. Methods: Normotensive, non-smoking healthy sedentary male students and staff...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the immediate effect of slow pace bhastrika pranayama (respiratory rate 6/min) for 5 minutes on heart rate and blood pressure and the effect of the same breathing exercise for the same duration of time (5 minutes) following oral intake of hyoscine-N-butylbromide (Buscopan), a parasympathetic blocker drug....

Postural syncope may be noticed in otherwise normal persons with defective postural reflexes. Vasoconstrictor reserve--the extent to which total peripheral resistance can be increased from baseline condition is an important determinant of orthostatic tolerance. Women showed low autonomic support of blood pressure. The case of neurally mediated sync...

The relationship between blood group and epistaxis among the patients coming to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu with idiopathic epistaxis was studied. A total of 235 patients coming to the Emergency Department or Department of Otorhinolaryngology with active nose bleeding in were included. ABO blood group was performed. Nearly hal...

Introduction: Epistaxis is one of the most common otorhinolaryngologic emergencies. Blood grouping is routinely done in patients with epistaxis. Objective: This study was done to observe the pattern and relation blood group in patients with epistaxis compared with non epistaxis patients. Method: A prospective study in 470 patients (age:20-70 years)...

Introduction: The incident of fainting during nasal packing to manage epistaxis is not so uncommon. Objective: To observe the effect of anterior nasal packing on blood pressure and heart rate, during the management of epistaxis. Method: Nepalese male patients (n=40; age more than 13 years) attended in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathman...

Some pulmonary function tests along with cardio respiratory fitness test were performed to assess the health status of the young (19-21 years) non-smokers Nepalese medical students. Results revealed that the vital capacity was 3.46 liters and 2.40 liters among the boys and girls respectively. PEFR was found to be 597.98 l/min among the boys and 456...

Hypertension is a global burning health problem. Early detection of proneness to hypertension may help an individual to lead a healthy life by altering the life style (by diet restriction, exercise etc.). Subjects at high risk of future hypertension e.g. the persons of hypertensive family and/or having high resting heart rate etc. show blood pressu...

Introdução: Não é muito incomum o incidente de desmaio durante o tamponamento nasal para tratamento de epistaxe. Objetivo: Observar o efeito do tamponamento nasal anterior sobre a tensão arterial e a freqüência cardíaca durante o tratamento de epistaxe. Método: Pacientes nepaleses do sexo masculino (n=40; com mais de 13 anos de idade) atendidos no...

Introdução: A epistaxe é uma das urgências otorrinolaringológicas mais comuns. O agrupamento sanguíneo é realizado regularmente em pacientes com epistaxe. Objetivo: Este estudo foi realizado para observar o grupo sanguíneo padrão e relativo em pacientes com epistaxe comparados a pacientes sem epistaxe. Método: Um estudo prospectivo em 470 pacientes...

Blood pressure in normal adults in the present study population in Nepal is found to be less in comparison to that recorded in Framingham study, USA. To find out the cause of variation of blood pressure values, this study was designed. Blood pressures of healthy young subjects were recorded by mercury sphygmomanometer having standard Riva-Rocci cuf...

Specific immunity decreases markedly in pregnancy. This study was designed to determine whether the non-specific immunity mediated by neutrophils plays any role in coping with this immunosuppressed condition. The number of leukocytes and neutrophils, especially the number of young band neutrophils, increased gradually with the advancement of pregna...

Study habits and attitude for learning of Basic Medical Sciences amongst 133 students of first and second year MBBS course were analyzed (through questionnaires). The study revealed that the most of the students desired to be physicians to serve the patient/society. They preferred to learn more through self study (48.0%) and lecture classes (43.0%)...

This study was undertaken to find out the trend of blood group distribution (ABO and Rh) among the 1310 Nepalese attended in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital Kathmandu. The frequency of distribution of A, B, AB and O was 28.5%, 27.3%, 8.7% and 35.5% respectively. Only 0.8% of them were found to be R...

Pulse pressures of two groups of young (18-35 yrs) normotensive non smoker men were compared. One group used to do regular resistance exercise in gymnasium & anther group used to practice aerobic exercise (playing football basketball etc.) regularly. Duration of exercise for both the group was same. Higher pulse pressure was noted in the group taki...

Anxiety can alter the cardiovascular parameters. In the present study, among the normotensive donors, the effect of anxiety on alteration of blood pressure and heart rate was assessed. Blood pressure and pulse rate were recorded in the volunteers just before blood donation and the results were compared with the blood pressure and heart rate recorde...

It is known that stress alters mental status and biological processes. Acute mental stress due to stressful interviews increases blood pressure. To assess the effect of chronic stress due to preparation of examination on cardiovascular function. The blood pressure of young normotensive medical students (n=55) was measured using a mercury sphygmoman...

Cervical cancer is a serious health problem and most of the cases occur in less developed countries where effective screening systems are lacking. The aim of our present study is to delineate the age for early detection of precancerous cervical lesions. Cervical smears were screened (Pap test) over a period of four and half years from January 2000...

Objective: To find out the variation of total and differential count of leucocytes and young neutrophils in young non-pregnants and pregnant ladies of different trimesters. Setting: Nepal Medical College, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal Design: Total and differential count of leukocytes were performed and percentage of young band forms among the neutroph...

The effect of temperature on phagocytic activity of neutrophils has been evaluated. Freshly collected heparinised blood samples from young healthy volunteers were incubated with heat killed Staphylococcus aureus at 37 degrees C, 38 degrees C, 39 degrees C and 40 degrees C for 20 minutes. Some of the neutrophils engulfed some heat killed bacteria. T...

This study evaluated the phagocytic activities of neutrophilic leukocytes in both sexes during reproductive age and in women in different phases of the menstrual cycle and in pregnancy. In this study, 9 male and 12 female medical students, 17 to 20 years of age, 23 pregnant women and 9 women after delivery were evaluated. Heparinized blood was incu...

In this study, the variation of blood pressure in young normotensive medical students has been recorded in winter and summer. Daytime blood pressure of young normotensive medical students has been measured in supine position. It has been found that both the systolic and diastolic pressure increases in low ambient temperature. It may be due to sympa...

Blood group distribution ofABO and Rh factor were studied among 322 Nepalese(male - 178; female - 144) and 100 Indians (male - 72; female - 28;) in a group ofmedical students.The percentage of different groups A, B, AB and 0 in Nepalese showed relativelymore in A & AB and less in 0 groups than Indians. The Rh (-)ve was more amongIndians (9%) than N...

To find the action of ethanolic extract of Aegle marmelos leaves (EAM) on spermatogenesis in albino rats 25 mg and 50 mg/kg body weight. EAM was administered orally for 30 days. Weight of primary and some accessory sex organs, sperm count and sperm motility and biochemical estimation of testicular protein and RNA were considered to study the effect...

Introduction: Primary dysmenorrhoea is one of the major problems associated with menstruation among the young undergraduate medical students which affect their daily routine. Among various causes, mental stress is one of the major causes of primary dysmenorrhoea. This study aims to assess the relationship between the degree of stress and incidence...