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ReviewIndian journal of endocrinology and metabolism2014

National health programs in the field of endocrinology and metabolism - Miles to go.

Vanishree Shriraam, Shriraam Mahadevan, M Anitharani, Selvavinayagam, Bwc Sathiyasekaran

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In one paragraph

Review in Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Newborn screening: need of the hour in India.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2015
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Community endocrinology.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vanishree ShriraamDepartment of Community Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Porur, Tamil Nadu, India.
Shriraam MahadevanDepartment of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Porur, Tamil Nadu, India.
M AnitharaniDepartment of Community Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Porur, Tamil Nadu, India.
SelvavinayagamTamil Nadu Health Systems Project, Directorate of Public Health, Government of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, India.
Bwc SathiyasekaranDepartment of Community Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Porur, Tamil Nadu, India.
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research · INGovernment of Tamil Nadu · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The endocrine and metabolic diseases of childhood obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, iodine deficiency disorders, vitamin D deficiency, and osteoporosis are major public health problems. Different programs including National Program for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Stroke address these problems although some are yet to be addressed. National surveys have shown high prevalence of these disorders and their risk factors. Most of the programs aim at awareness raising, lifestyle modification, (primary prevention) and screening (secondary prevention) for the disease conditions as these are proven to be cost-effective compared to late diagnosis and treatment of various complications. Urgent concerted full scale implementation of these programs with good coordination under the umbrella of National Rural Health Mission is the need of the moment. The referral system needs strengthening as are the secondary and tertiary levels of health care. Due attention is to be given for implementation of these programs in the urban areas, as the prevalence of these conditions is almost equal or even higher among urban poor people where primary and secondary prevention measures are scarcely available and treatment costs are sky-high.

Indexed as

Diabetesendocrinologyiodine deficiency disordersnational programssurveillance

Identifiers

PMID24701424
PMCPMC3968736
OpenAlexW2011569725

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Registered trials

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