Home visits for dietary advice reduce caries

Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease.

BACKGROUND Restricting sodium intake in elevated blood pressure over short periods of time reduces blood pressure. Long term effects (on mortality, morbidity or blood pressure) of advice to reduce salt in patients with elevated or normal blood pressure are unclear. OBJECTIVES To assess in adults the long term effects (mortality, cardiovascular events, blood pressure, quality of life, weight, ...

Exploring Local and Community Capacity to Reduce Fuel Poverty: The Case of Home Energy Advice Visits in the UK

Local delivery of support to householders to reduce the exposure to, and impacts of, fuel poverty is attracting increasing policymaker interest, but there is a dearth of empirical research that describes and evaluates local support schemes. Community organisations are viewed as having great potential to aid this delivery, but research on how this could be achieved is scarce. The research presen...

Home visits reduce the number of hazards for childhood home injuries in Karachi, Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND Although unintentional injuries are major causes of morbidity and mortality in less developed countries, they have received scant attention, and injury prevention policies and programs have just begun to be addressed systemically. AIMS To reduce hazards associated with home injuries due to falls and ingestions through an injury prevention program administered by home visitors. ME...

Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease (Review)

Pragmatic dietary advice for diabetes during Navratris

Navratri is one of the most common religious fasts observed among Hindus. A large number of people with diabetes follow Navratris fast irrespective of its health implications, often without proper education and medical advice. The quest for the scientific research on dietary advices for Hindu fasts including Navratris shows paucity of literature comparative to the dietary advices advocated duri...