Prevalence of dementia in a semi-urban population in Sri Lanka: report from a regional survey. by de Silva, H, Gunatilake, S, Smith, A

“…CONCLUSION: Comparison with other community studies performed in North India suggests that dementia prevalence is higher in Sri Lanka. …”

Isolation, purification, and characterization of heparinase from Streptomyces variabilis MTCC 12266 by Singh, Vineeta, Haque, Shafiul, Kumari, Vibha, El Enshasy, Hesham A., Mishra, B. N., Somvanshi, Pallavi, Tripathi, C. K. M.

“…A microbial strain of Streptomyces sp. showing antithrombotic activity was isolated from the soil sample collected from north India. The strain was characterized by using 16S rRNA homology technique and identified as Streptomyces variabilis MTCC 12266 capable of producing heparinase enzyme. …”
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Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.)–Baby Corn (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) Cropping System Response to Different Summer Green Manuring and Nutrient Management by Vikash Kumar, Manoj Kumar Singh, Nikhil Raghuvanshi, Monalisa Sahoo

“…The nutrient and biomass supply capacity of green manure (GM) and its complimentary and synergistic relationship with chemical nutrients is needed for a sustainable rice–baby corn cropping system in the eastern part of North India. A two-year field study was performed to assess the effect of GM and nitrogen management (NM) on yield attributes (YA), the yield of rice, and their residual (R) effect with the half-recommended dose of fertilizers on the succeeding baby corn crop. …”
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Characteristics and outcomes of parturients with COVID-19, admitted to a critical care unit: A single-center retrospective observational study by Ananya Ray, Tanvir Samra, Varun Mahajan, Karan Singla, B Naveen Naik, Bharti Joshi, Vighnesh Ashok, Vanita Suri, Mini Singh, Arnab Ghosh, Goverdhan Dutt Puri

“…We present collated data from a tertiary care center in North India, encompassing the outcome, clinical characteristics, and management of these patients. …”
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Immunoadsorption in ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation in adult and pediatric patients with follow-up on graft and patient survival: First series from India by Aseem Kumar Tiwari, Geet Aggarwal, Dinesh Arora, Gunjan Bhardwaj, Manish Jain, Shyam Bihari Bansal, Sidharth K Sethi

“…Methods: Patients undergoing ABO-incompatible kidney transplant with use of IA were evaluated at tertiary care center in north India. Patient records for 2-years were collated from hospital information system (HIS) and procedure forms. …”
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High prevalence of ACE DD genotype among north Indian end stage renal disease patients by Pandirikkal Baburajan Vinod, Sharma RK, Khan Faisal, Dharmani Poonam, Tripathi Gaurav, Agrawal Suraksha

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>In the present study, we have investigated 127 ESRD patients and 150 normal healthy controls from north India to deduce the association between ACE gene polymorphism and ESRD. …”
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NMR spectroscopy-based analysis of gallstones of cancerous and benign gallbladders from different geographical regions of the Indian subcontinent. by Mohd Adnan Siddiqui, Navneet Dwivedi, Mohammed Haris Siddiqui, S V Rana, Anil Sharma, N R Dash, Rebala Pradeep, Ranjit Vijayahari, Anu Behari, V K Kapoor, Neeraj Sinha

“…Solid-State NMR spectroscopy 13C cross-polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) experiments were done on the 20 CC GS samples and 20 GBC GS samples of two regions. 1H NMR spectra from the solution state NMR of all the stones reveal that cholesterol was a major component of the maximum stones of the north India region while in south Indian regions, GS had very less cholesterol. 13C CPMAS experiments reveal that the quantity of cholesterol was significantly more in the GS of CC in the Lucknow region compared with GBC stones of Lucknow and Chandigarh. …”
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Coronavirus infection and ABO blood grouping: Correlation or coincidence? by Awale R Bhalchandra, Om P Sanjeev, Rajendra Chaudhary, Swati Sharma, Rahul Katharia, Alok Nath, Chandrakanta Singh, Ratender K Singh, Prabhakar K Mishra

“…Methods: The present hospital-based observational study was conducted at a COVID-19 dedicated tertiary care hospital in North India over a period of six months during the first wave of the pandemic in the country. …”
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Study of chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorders in newly detected advanced renal failure patients: A Hospital-based cross-sectional study by Praveen Kumar Etta, R K Sharma, Amit Gupta

“…We aim to evaluate the disturbances in mineral metabolism, abnormalities in bone mineral density (BMD), and extraskeletal calcification in newly detected, untreated predialysis stage 4 and 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients at a tertiary care hospital in North India. This is cross-sectional observational study. …”
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Clinical profile and outcomes of children with COVID-19: A single-center prospective study by Sonam Chalotra, Alok Raina, Pooja Bharti, Preeti Sharma

“…Methods This prospective study was conducted at the tertiary care dedicated hospital of COVID-19 in North India between April 1, 2021 and June 30, 2021. …”
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Incidence, Determinants, and Outcome of Contrast-induced Acute Kidney Injury following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention at a Tertiary Care Hospital by Aashaq Hussain Khandy, Shiekh Rayees, Tauseef Nabi, Sheikh Mohamad Tahir, Sheikh Rayees Yousuf

“…This was a hospital-based prospective observational study done on 204 adult subjects, who were candidates for PCI, at a tertiary care center in North India. Various clinical and biochemical parameters were monitored. …”
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Temporal trends and gender differentials in causes of childhood deaths at Ballabgarh, India - Need for revisiting child survival strategies by Krishnan Anand, Ng Nawi, Kapoor Suresh K, Pandav Chandrakant S, Byass Peter

“…This paper from Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) site in north India looks at temporal trends and gender differentials in the causes of death among under-five children.…”
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Comparison of novel clinic-based approach (amblyopia school) Vs. home-based occlusion for amblyopia therapy – A retrospective study by Subhajit Bhattacharya, Ketaki Subhedar, Madhu Bhadauria, Ranjana Shukla, Ruchita Manaktala, Abhinav Kumar, Ayush Wilson

“…Methods: A retrospective study of case records of children aged <15 years with diagnosis of strabismic or anisometropic amblyopia or both was conducted at a tertiary eye hospital located in rural North India between Jan 2017–Jan 2020. Those with at least 1 follow-up visit were included. …”
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Feasibility of establishing deletion of the late cornified envelope genes LCE3B and LCE3C as a susceptibility factor for psoriasis by Safia Bashir, Iffat Hassan, Sabhiya Majid, Yasmeen Jabeen Bhat, Rabia Farooq

“…This study aimed to evaluate the common deletion of late cornified envelope genes (LCE 3B/3C) in psoriasis patients of Kashmiri ethnic population of North India. Materials and Methods: It was a hospital-based, case-control study which included 100 psoriasis cases and an equal number of controls. …”
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Issues faced by a resource-constrained stem cell donor registry and impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on their functioning: A 9-year observational study from a single registry in... by Hina Solanki, Aseem Kumar Tiwari, Nikki Dey, Vimarsh Raina, Girish Sharma

“…Settings and Design: The present study was a descriptive study which was designed to study the functioning of a resource-constrained registry from north India. Materials and Methods: The study data for the period of 2012–2020 pertaining to donor recruitment, number of searches, number of matched donors, number of transplants performed, and donor attrition was collected from the registry software “Prometheus.” …”
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Treatment response and short-term outcomes in children admitted as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children by Mousin Mustafa Batt, Ghanshyam S Saini, Mohammad Irfan Dar

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the disease management and clinical outcomes of a larger group of children from North India presenting with features of MIS-C. Materials and Methods: This is an observational study of children with MIS-C, admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) between March 1, 2021, and August 31, 2021, during the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection in India. …”
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A case study of comparative techno-economic and life cycle assessment of tap water versus household reverse osmosis-based drinking water systems in a North Indian city by Khalid Muzamil Gani, Sohaib Rashid Rather, Amit Chandra, Mubashir Arshid

“…The objective of this study was to assess the techno-economic performance and life cycle assessment (LCA) of household RO-based water purifiers in Srinagar city of North India. Our results demonstrate that household ROs reduce the concentration of important dietary minerals such as fluoride and magnesium in drinking water by 50%. …”
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Comparison and agreement between venous and arterial gas analysis in cardiopulmonary patients in Kashmir valley of the Indian subcontinent by Koul Parvaiz, Khan Umar, Wani Abdul, Eachkoti Rafiqa, Jan Rafi, Shah Sanaullah, Masoodi Zarka, Qadri Syed, Ahmad Muneer, Ahmad Asrar

“…<b>Setting:</b> Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Kashmir, a 650-bedded tertiary care hospital in North India located at an altitude of 1584 m. <b>Methods:</b> One hundred patients who required ABG analysis were admitted. …”
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Effects of deworming on malnourished preschool children in India: an open-labelled, cluster-randomized trial. by Shally Awasthi, Richard Peto, Vinod K Pande, Robert H Fletcher, Simon Read, Donald A P Bundy

“…The children lived in 50 areas, each defined by precise government boundaries as urban slums, in Lucknow, North India. All children were offered vitamin A every 6 months, and children in 25 randomly assigned slum areas also received 6-monthly albendazole. …”
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Neonatal Scrub Typhus- A Series of Five Cases by K Vindhiya, A Priya Margaret, LL Prathyusha, S Ramitha Enakshi Kumar

“…A number of cases of scrub typhus are being reported from North India. However, there has been a steady increase in the number of cases from Southern India, especially Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka. …”
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