OBJECTIVES This pilot study was undertaken to know the normal values of cord blood insulin and glucose levels in full-term normal pregnancies and pregnancies complicated with maternal conditions like pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH), thyroid dysfunction and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). METHOD Full-term pregnancies from Ketkar maternity hospital, Nagpur, since January 2011 were inc...

Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) is a reactive hypermelanosis, profoundly common in the Asian skin. The post-acne sequelae may have profound effects on patients’ mental status, sometimes even more than acne itself, as they are long lasting and treatment refractory. PIH occurs secondary to release of inflammatory mediators such prostaglandins interleukins which stimulate melanogenesis. ...

BACKGROUND There are data to suggest that infection with HIV or use of highly active antiretroviral therapy increases the risk of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to provide an overview of the research hitherto. METHODS A systematic review of EMBASE, PubMed, and The Cochrane Library databases was conducted to obtain articles about the associat...

1. Introduction Partners In Health (PIH) is an international, non-profit healthcare organization with operations in several countries on multiple continents. PIH focuses on providing healthcare treatment to people living in some of the poorest places in the world, and has been operating in Haiti since 1985. At that time, PIH established a small community clinic in the central Haiti village of C...

Homocysteine levels have been determined with Chromatography on HPLC column, between the 20th and the 24th week of pregnancy, in women with analogous characteristics (a) normotensive, (b) with pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), low (LR), medium (MR), high risk (HR). The group they belonged to was confirmed after natural or caesarean delivery. All the patients were submitted to 24 hour blood ...

conclusions intrathecal midazolam 2 mg provides significantly longer and effective postoperative analgesia with no side effects. results postoperative analgesia was significantly longer in the midazolam group compared to the control group (201.5 minutes vs. 357.6 minutes). the mean onset times of the sensory and motor blocks were significantly faster (p < 0.01) in the midazolam group compared t...

Our Department of General Microbiology created a wide collection of P. penneri isolates and classified most of them into 19 different O-serogroups. This work describes the classification of 12 remaining P. penneri strains. The lipopolysaccharides extracted from P. penneri strains were tested in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with selected O-antisera against Proteus sp. strains. Ho...

The serum of calcium, other involved minerals and parathyroid hormone (PTH) were studied in non-pregnant women, during pregnancy and in pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH). In pregnant women, serum creatinine, total calcium, total protein, albumin, inorganic phosphorus and magnesium declined, while parathyroid hormone levels increased significantly when compared to non-pregnant women. In PIH c...

This paper investigates whether time-series data from 11 West-German states (Länder) provide evidence in accord with the implication of the permanentincome hypothesis (PIH) for the stochastic relationship between consumption and income innovations. The empirical results do not support this hypothesis, in the sense that the response of consumption to income innovations is found to be much weaker...