Background and Objectives: Nutritional status is considered a significant and positive health indicator. It determines anthropometric measurements of preschool children, the height of children at the time of school entry and prevalence of low birth weight. The objective of the study was to determine the frequency of nutritional status and socio-demographic factors influencing under nutrition among school children of rural Islamabad. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among school children of the age (4-16 years) from January 2017 to September 2019. The Sample size was 1710. Schools were selected through convenient sampling technique. Frequency and percentages were calculated and inferential statistics were computed to analyze the association of health status with categorical variables by using chi-square by keeping the level of significance <0.05 through SPSS version 20. Results: The mean age of the sample was 9.38±4.14 with the maximum number of children (49.1%) in the age bracket of 5-9. Out of 1710 children, 54.4% had normal weight for age, 25.3% were underweight, 7.5% overweight and 12.8% were found to be obese. Stunting was found to be 26%. Prevalence of being underweight was higher than overweight /obesity particularly in younger and higher age groups as indicated by p-value of 0.000. Comparing with females, male students had significantly higher frequency of being underweight and stunted as reflected by p-value of 0.004 and 0.000 respectively. Univariate analysis also showed a strong association between age and nutritional status as mean weight increased from 39.22±5.21 to 63.50±4.66 and height from 35.67±5.76 to 113.73±29.22 with advancing age. Conclusions: Undernutrition remains an ongoing health problem in school going children of rural Islamabad; particularly in male students of younger age groups. School health programs and nutritional interventions need to be strengthened particularly in rural areas of Islamabad. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3773 How to cite this:Farhin S, Jaffry T, Zafar S, Rashid F. Frequency and assessment of Nutritional Status of school going children in rural areas of Islamabad. Pak J Med Sci. 2021;37(5):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3773 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the rates of death from coronavirus infection among healthcare personnel against those in the general population. Study Design: Comparative study Place and Duration: This study was conducted at Benazir Bhutu Hospital Rawalpindi during the period from July, 2022 to September, 2022. Methods: 135 coronavirus-infected individuals of both genders were studied. Patients were aged 20–65 years. All patients gave written consent for baseline data on age, sex, body mass index, socioeconomic status, and domicile. Patients were symptomatic and asymptomatic. Among 135 cases, 65 were health workers in group I and 70 were general population in group II. Mortality among both groups were compared. ICU hospitalization, ventilation, and death were compared between groups. SPSS 22.0 analyzed all data. Results: There were 35 males in group I with mean age 26.13±10.72 years and in group II 40 were males with mean age 45.6±5.27 years. We found that number of died patients were higher in group II 9 (12.9%) as compared to group I 3 (4.6%). Older age, heart disease, diabetes mellitus and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) were the most common reasons of died coronavirus patients. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that older age, heart disease, and diabetes are independently associated with a higher risk of death and a greater severity of pandemic disease among the general public than they are among health care professionals. Keywords: General Population, Ventilation, Mortality, Coronavirus, Health workers,
COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of individuals globally over the last three years and is spreading continuously. In view of different studies and clinical findings, patients suffering with COVID-19 frequently have deranged liver function tests (LFTs), but the clinical significance of this finding is debatable. Objective: The present study was aimed to estimate the prevalence, features, and clinical significance of deranged LFTs in COVID-19 infected individuals, who were hospitalized but were not critically ill. Method: We conducted a cross sectional from May 2021 to December 2021 at The Akbar Niazi Teaching Hospital Islamabd. A total of 250 COVID-19 patients were included in the current study. The patient's blood samples were collected to get laboratory results, which included LFTs. LFTs were performed at the time of admission and every 5 ± 2 day throughout the stay. The outcome measure was either death or transfer of the patients to an intensive care unit. Results: At the time of admission, 160 patients (64%) showed deranged LFTs. Individuals with deranged LFTs experienced more severe inflammation, swelling, and organ damage than those who didn’t. Patients with deranged LFTs had a greater proportion of transfer to the ICU (81 vs 17), hospital stay (17 vs 7 days), and death (17 vs 5) than those with normal LFTs. Conclusion: The results of the current investigation demonstrated that LFTs data might forecast the degree of illness in patients with COVID-19 infections at the time of admission and during their hospital stay. Keywords: Covid-19, Liver Function Tests, ICU, Mortality Rate, Pakistan
Introduction: The purpose of the worldwide lockdown was to impede the spread of this virus via social distancing. WHO detected symptoms like anxiety, stress, fear which have affected people’s psychology across the globe due to loneliness, substance abuse, depression and constant fear? With the surge of information regarding COVID-19 on social media (myths and beliefs), it certainly played a major role for communities’ psychology all around the globe. Methods: A cross sectional study design was chosen with convenient sampling size of 800 via online. Questionnaire shared through online social media platforms. Statistical analysis was done through SPSS version 21 and responses were taken as frequencies, percentages and chi-square test. Results: there was a significant association between highly educated peoples and social media usage with p-value less than 0.000 suggestive of myths generating decline of mental health. Conclusion: COVID-19 information available over social media was used by everyone and considered as authentic. Therefore, control measures and legislation should be applied on them to restrict the ambiguity. Key-words: Social media; COVID-19; Myths; life worth; save humanity; Attitude;
Objective: To assess the C Reactive protein level as early predictor of Covid -19 Patients Methodology: COVID-19 patients were admitted in LG Hospital Lahore. The medical history of established patients of COVID-19 during October 2020 to December 2020 was studied. CRP level of Covid -19 patients were measured. Data was collected and entered using software SPSS version which was later analyzed. Results: A major rise of CRP levels 20 to 50 mg/L in Covid -19 patients was detected. Conclusion: The result of the study shows that rise of CRP level is directly associated with elevation of mortality of Covid -19 ailments.. So, therefore, it is essential to observe CRP level .CRP level should be acclaimed for definite sign for sternness guess of Covid-19 patients. Keywords: LG Hospital, Covid-19, Biomarker, CRP
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