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Background: Peer review is one of the cornerstones of sound scientific publication. When a paper is submitted to a journal, after an initial assessment, the editor sends the article to reviewers with similar research experiences for comprehensive comments. Aims and Objectives: In this article, we aimed to analyze the pattern of peer review by the reviewers in the physiology domain from India as found in publons.com. Materials and methods: We searched https://publons.com and clicked on 揃rowse� to search the profile of 揜esearchers.� The research field was selected as 揚hysiology� and the country as 揑ndia.� A total of 158 profiles were found with the search criteria. The number of publications, citations, peer review, H-index, and the editorial record was obtained for further analysis. The number of the peer review was tested with the number of publications and citations for any existing correlation. Results: Among the 158 researchers in the physiology domain, an average verified review was 8.09 � 32.12 and an average number of publications were 15.7 � 31.1. Their number of citations was 359.75 � 1296.24 with an average H-index of 4.15 � 7.85. There was a significant positive correlation with peer review versus number of publication (0.39 [95% CI: 0.24 to 0.51], P < 0.0001) and peer review versus number of citation (0.26 [95% CI: 0.11 to 0.41)], P = 0.0008). Conclusion: Peer reviewers in the physiology domain from India have contributed by reviewing an average of 8 peer reviews. However, many of the profiles showed zero contribution. More publications and more citations would expose the researchers to a wider audience worldwide, including the editors. Hence, they would get peer review requests.
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Background: Today’s medical students are tomorrow’s future workforce in the Indian health-care system. Leadership quality among medical students is rarely assessed or discussed during the undergraduate medical course. Aim and Objective: This study aimed to ascertain the level of perceived leadership quality among 1st-year medical students in an Indian medical college. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with all 1st-year medical students studying MBBS. We took a convenience sample for this study. A self-report questionnaire-abbreviated self-leadership quality was used to assess the perceived leadership quality. This questionnaire has a total of nine questions or statements that have a 5-point Likert-type response option. Data were presented descriptively and analyzed by one-way analysis of variance. Results: A total of 87 (58 male and 29 female) 1st-year medical students participated in this study. The highest score was for self-goal setting and the lowest score was for self-reward. There was a significant difference (P < 0.0001) in the variance of a score. The questionnaire showed a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.86 which indicates the questionnaire was having a good internal consistency. Conclusion: From the experience of this single-center study, it may be concluded that 1st-year medical students are having a high level of perceived leadership quality. Although their goal-setting is the highest quality, self-reward is not practiced by them. Leadership training in the curriculum may help in growing the leadership quality among medical students.
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Background: Body fat measurement requires a dedicated device and careful preparation of the subjects concerning food and water intake, exercise, precautions about alcohol intake, or any other condition that may change the hydration status of the subject. If simple anthropometric parameters can be used to estimate body fat that may help clinicians to know the body without measuring it. Aim and Objectives: The aim of the study was to find a regression equation to estimate body fat from height, weight, waist circumference (WC), and hip circumference (HC). Materials and Methods: First, we measured the height, weight, WC, HC, and body fat of 80 individuals with proper care for bioelectric impedance analysis. Then, this data were used to find multiple regression equation. Then, the equation was tested with 20 individuals where we measured the height, weight, WC, and HC and put those data into the equation to estimate body fat. Results: The mean age of participants was 28.12 ± 3.45 years. The height, weight, WC, and HC all contributed statistically significantly to the prediction of body fat, F (4.75) = 31.17 P < 0.0001. The established regression equation was: Body fat = 40.134 - (height in cm × 0.271) + (weight in kg × 0.412) + (WC in cm × 0.052) + (HC in cm × 0.067). During the test of the equation, measured mean fat (36.79 ± 2.64%) was not statistically different (P = 0.75) from estimated body fat (36.6 ± 3.23%). Conclusion: A multiple regression equation was formulated to estimate body fat from the height, weight, WC, and HC of an individual. This equation successfully estimated body fat from the anthropometric parameters. A further large-scale study is needed to find a more generalized estimation equation.
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Introduction:Alcohol is the most commonly abused drug worldwide causing liver injury. There is high prevalence of alcohol use in the society particularly in the developed and developing nations. Alcohol affects all systems ranging from central nervous system, cardio-vascular system and genitourinary system. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 140 million people with alcoholism worldwide. In this study, we have focused on alcoholic hepatitis among the Garhwali population of Uttarakhand.Materials & Methods:The study was carried out upon 680 Garhwali subjects, of which 124 patients were suffering from alcoholic hepatitis at the hepatology clinic, during the period from January 2015 to December 2018 at H.N.B. Govt. Base Hospital of Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Govt. Medical Science & Research Institute, Srinagar, Uttarakhand. Medical laboratory tests and statistical tools were applied.Results:Out of 680 subjects, incidence of alcoholic hepatitis was found 124 (18.2%) cases in this study. There was occurrence of alcoholic hepatitis only among the males and was found highest in the age group between 40-50 years, 69.4% belong to urban class while 30.6% belong to rural class society. It was also found that the incidence of alcoholic hepatitis was highest in the district of Pauri, followed by in the district of Chamoli, Uttarkashi and Tehri in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.Discussion/Conclusion:Increase incidence of alcoholic hepatitis seen among the male was mainly due to addiction of alcohol and increased socio-economic conditions of this region. Nowadays, consuming alcohol has also became a symbol of status in the society. We also found that the incidence of alcoholic hepatitis was increasing year after year from 8.9% in 2015 to 45.1% in the year 2018, was really a matter of concern. Mortality and morbidity associated with this disease is matter of serious economic loss to the nation and grief for the society.