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Point-of-care testing of platelet function deserves further study for risk assessment and individualized therapy in the future.

Impaired fasting glucose (IFG) contributes to microvascular and macrovascular complications and increased cardiovascular disease risk. Although type 2 diabetes is largely considered to occur as a result of IFG, understanding of physiologic and associated management targets is uniformly lacking among health care professionals. Once definitions are standardized, diagnostic criteria and screening tools may help to identify individuals at risk sooner, thereby minimizing the rapid deterioration that often results. To counter the rising pandemic of obesity and diabetes, it is important to understand the vascular risk of IFG and impaired glucose tolerance in patients at risk.

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Background: Recurrent headache disorders impose a substantial burden on headache sufferers, family and society. In India, 15 to 20% of people suffer from migraine with an adult female: male ratio of 2:1. This study has been done with an aim at documenting the different types of migraine, their clinical presentations among patients presented to the Headache clinic, Neurology outpatient Department, Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai during a one year period.Methods: The patients registered at Headache clinic, Neurology outpatient Department, Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai during one year period between the March 2009 and February 2010 with the diagnosis of migraine as per International Headache Society 2004 criteria were taken for this study. The clinical material was collected from the records and by patient interviews with a detailed pre-prepared proforma. The various parameters of the patients were compared, classified and analysed with specific reference to national and international studies.Results: Migraine is the commonest type of headache comprising of about 76% of total cases of headache. Migraine without aura (48%) was more common than migraine with aura (32%). Female preponderance was noticed in all subtypes of migraine, age of onset being in 2nd and 3rd decade for majority of the subgroups of migraine, with positive family history in 45% of cases, with predominant unilateral in presentation and temporal in location, lasting for 12 to 24 hours in majority of cases.Conclusions: Migraine is the commonest type of headache in patients observed in this study. Among subtypes migraine without aura is the commonest. Second and third decade is the commonest age group of onsets.