Background: Drug utilization pattern in pregnancy population provide insights regarding drug profile and interventional measures and also minimizes the inherent risk occurring due to unethical prescription.Methods: It was a prospective cross sectional study where prescription slips were collected. Further drugs were categorized according to the classification defined by US Food and drug Administration for pregnancy. Using Pre validated questionnaire the pregnant women were interviewed and parameters regarding knowledge about antenatal visit and contraception, self-medication practices were noted.Results: Among the total 365 participants, 81.4% had finish their high schooling and were in reproductive age group of 22-25. Study revealed predominant usage category- A drugs in I (95.5%), II (97.8%), III (96.4%) trimester. None of them received Category D or X drugs. Almost 100% and 98.6% in III and II trimester respectively received iron. Other drugs prescribed were calcium, anti-emetics, anti-ulcer, NSAIDS and antimicrobial. The awareness about Intra Uterine Contraceptive Devices and Oral Contraceptive Pills were 48.2% and 31.5% respectively. Unfortunately only 4.9% felt that drug use could be dangerous to foetus. 58.9% were aware about antenatal examination during pregnancy.Conclusions: Evaluation of drug utilization pattern periodically will minimize incidence of risk to foetus and mother during pregnancy.
The materials for this study included only the histopathologically diagnosed tumours and cysts of the epidermis, dermal adnexal tumours and cutaneous secondaries. The other tumours and cysts of the genitalia, tumours of the mucous membranes were excluded. The formalin fixed paraffin embedded skin biopsy tissue sections stained with Hematoxylin and eosin slides were retrieved and studied and their patterns were analysed to distinguish each entity. We had totally 160 cases in this study and the tumours were categorized based on the classification of Lever's textbook. Ethical clearance for this study was approved by the institutional ethical committee. The results were expressed in percentage by using a software Statistical Package for Social Science(SPSS) ,version 16.0. Result The retrospective study of medical records showed that 160 cases of epidermal tumours , dermal adnexal tumours and cystic lesions. Out of these 160 cases, Males were 82cases(51.3%)&Females were 78 cases (48.8%).The male-female ratio was 1.05:1. Cystic lesions formed the major comoponent of our study consisting of 98
BACKGROUNDLiterature reviews suggest that elderly are susceptible to severe complication due to anaemia compared to the younger ones. WHO defines that male <13 g/dL and female <12 g/dL should be termed as anaemic. Nearly 23.9% of the global population was anaemic. The prevalence of anaemia increases with age and that too females under 75 years were commonly affected compared to males. However, data regarding patterns of anaemia in Pondicherry is very less. This prompted us to study the morphological patterns and prevalence of anaemia for adults and geriatric population in a tertiary care hospital at Pondicherry.
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