V D Joshi's research while affiliated with Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and other places
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Publications (3)
Thirty three normal male and forty two normal female subjects, of average age of 18.5 years, underwent six weeks course in 'Pranayam' and their ventilatory lung functions were studied before and after this practice. They had improved ventilatory functions in the form of lowered respiratory rate (RR), and increases in the forced vital capacity (FVC)...
Ascorbic acid, 30 mg/kg/day, fed for 20 days did not significantly change either total cholesterol or high density lipoprotein cholesterol of plasma of 27 male medical college students of age varying between 17 and 20 years.
Effects of intra-amniotic instillation of hypertonic saline and prostaglandin F2 alpha for medical termination of pregnancy were studied. Fibrinolytic activity significantly increased at 4 hr and 24 hr after hypertonic saline but only at 24 hrs after prostaglandin. There was no significant change in prothrombin time after hypertonic saline but sign...
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... [13] Joshi et al reported significant increase in FVC and Peak Expiratory Flow Rate (PEFR) following 6 weeks of Pranayama practice. [14] Makwana et al reported significant increase in FVC & Forced Expiratory Volume in one minute (FEV1) following 10 weeks of yoga training. [15] Vital capacity was measured before and after 17 weeks of regular practice of yoga postures and breathing exercises in a large group of college students in the USA, and the study showed statistically significant increase in vital capacity across all categories over time. ...
... Present study, could not exhibit a substantial increase in HDL-C levels in all the treatment groups except simvastatin. These results are in compliance with the randomized controlled trials, where vitamin C failed to elevate serum HDL-C levels (Johnson & Obenshain, 1981;Joshi et al., 1981;McRae, 2008). Similarly, vitamin E-treatment to cholesterol-fed rabbits did not show an increase in serum HDL-C levels (Husain et al., 2004). ...
