Background: A condition known as gestational diabetes mellitus occurs when there is any level of glucose intolerance that begins during pregnancy or discovered for the first-time pregnancy. The prime purpose identifying women with GDM to detect who are at risk developing this and also decrease perinatal morbidity mortality. In India, considered a significant health issue prevalence rates 4.6% 1...

OBJECTIVE: The present study was aimed at comparing indices obtained from dental panoramic radiographs with bone densitometry results in the identification of individuals affected by osteoporosis/osteopenia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Panoramic mandibular, mental, antegonial, gonial and mandibular cortical indices calculated with basis on dental panoramic radiographs of postmenopausal women were co...

Indices have been developed that provide an improved means for evaluation of the degrees of severity of mitral stenosis and regurgitation. The severity of anatomic mitral valve disease found at surgery or autopsy was considered to be the determinant of the state of the valve. An index of the time for the diastolic atrioventricular pressure gradient to fall to half its value multiplied by 100 an...

Indices derived from both the isovolumic and ejection phases of left ventricular systole have been advocated as a means of defining the basal level of contractility, but their comparative reliability for separating patients with obvious myocardial disease from a normal population has not been documented. Accordingly, indices of myocardial function were measured and compared in 36 patients, 22 w...

Indices derived from both the isovolumic and ejection phases of left ventricular systole have been advocated as a means of defining the basal level of contractility, but their comparative reliability for separating patients with obvious myocardial disease from a normal population has not been documented. Accordingly, indices of myocardial function were measured and compared in 36 patients, 22 w...

Indices based on early systolic ejection rates are theoretically more sensitive to ventricular performance than indices based on the entire systolic ejection (SE) period (mean ejection phase indices-MEPI): mean systolic ejection rate (MSER), mean normalized systolic ejection rate (MNSER) and mean velocity of circumferential fiber shortening (MVcf). The volume ejected in early systole is an indi...