Preventive measures are the best cure for any disease as they reduce the infection rate. Preventive measures are affected by knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the disease. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the awareness, perceived risk, and protective behavior toward COVID-19 among undergraduate students of the Delhi and National Capital Region, India. An online questionnaire-based random survey was conducted amongst 605 undergraduate students to assess the demographic characteristics of participants, their level of awareness, perceived risk, and protective behavior regarding COVID-19. The overall awareness, perceived risk, and protective behavior for COVID-19 were found high in undergraduate students (0.000***,0.000***,0.000***). When variable (Gender, area of living, and subject studies) based analysis was performed among participants, a non-statistical significance difference was observed in total awareness among them (p>0.05) towards 0.121, 0.937). Whereas Female, urban, and science participants were found to perceive the risk for COVID-19 more accurately in comparison to male, rural and non-science participants in total perceive risk analysis (p= 0.016**, 0.035**, 0.036**). However, urban participants showed more Total protective behavior as compared to the rural participants (p=0.048**) and there was no statistical significance difference in protective behavior in terms of Male/Female and Science/ non-science participants (p=0.189, 0.100). These findings will contribute to the continued regional/ global efforts to better understand preventive crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study emphasizes the need for conducting periodic webinars for educational intervention for all college students which could be useful to create more awareness.
The rapidly aging population in this century, with the accompanying age related disorders is a medical, psychosocial and financial burden on the society. This maturing of the population has been correlated with altered gut brain axis and chronic inflammatory state. The gut inflammatory reactions with release of pro-inflammatory metabolites are cause or/and consequence of age related disorders in elderly. Therefore, dietary microbiome therapies such as probiotic and prebiotics supplementation may induce beneficial changes in diversity and taxa of the gut microbiome resulting in healthy ageing. To summarize, research in this field is the need of the hour to understand senescence vis -a-vis gut brain axis.
approximately10years may reduce the number of cataract surgery by half. 3 Therefore, this mini review article will examine and summarize nutritional interventional strategies to prevent/delay age related cataract in elderly. There is a growing interest in the role of dietary factors in cataract because modifications like changing eating habits or supplementation will serve as a primary preventive measure in the development of lens opacity .These eye lens opacity results due to glucose toxicity involving processes like oxidative stress nonenzymatic glycation and enhanced polyol pathway.Role of dietary factors in these processes is as follows: Role of antioxidantsDietary antioxidants/ carotenoids like lutein and zeaxanthin are present in the human eye lens.These compounds filter harmful short wave blue light and reduce H 2 O 2 mediated damage of lens protein, lipid as well as DNA, 4 thereby functioning as antioxidants and stabilizing membrane integrity .These carotenoids rich food are carrot, corn, egg yolk etc. Similarly ,vitamins present in the diet, 5 e.g. vitamins A,C, 6 and E, 7 prevent damage to lens proteins, membranes, enzymes from activated oxygen species resulting in antioxidant activity .These vitamins are present in carrot, citrus fruits, corn oil etc. Flavonoids e.g. myrcetin and flavones also exert antioxidant effects due to their ability to scavenge free radicals, donate hydrogen as hydrogen donating compounds, and act as singlet oxygen quenchers and metal ion chelators .These flavonoids can be obtained from apple, grapes, bananas, berries, green leafy vegetables etc.
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