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Introduction: Children have the highest rate of prevalenceof anaemia and hence face major health problems. Botheconomic and social development is adversely affected byanaemia. Children below 5 year of age suffer 4 – 5 episodesof RTI (Respiratory Tract Infection) per year. This study wasaimed to find the association of RTI with anaemia.Material and Methods: This retrospective study wasconducted among children of age group 1-14 years presentedwith upper and lower RTI. The results were analyzed on thebasis of clinical findings, results of laboratory investigationsand data was statistically analyzed to find out the association.Results: Total of 50 children (age 1 to 14 years) were included.Male to female ratio was 1.08:1. Among the total cases, 14(28%) cases were anaemic and remaining 36 (72%) caseswere non-anaemic. Among the anaemic cases, 5 cases (10%)were presented with upper RTI and remaining 9 cases (18%)were with lower RTI. A statistically significant difference(p=0.0247) could be evidenced between the RTI in anaemicchildren when compared to non-anaemic cases. Furthermore,the relative risk of incidence for RTI among the anaemicchildren was 0.4945 (95% CI= 0.2379-1.028) compared to thenon-anaemic cases.Conclusion: Association of relative risk for RTI amongthe children with anaemia was statistically significant whencompared to those without anaemia
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Introdcution: A variable incidence of hanging is found assecond major group among the total number of autopsiesdone in the Department of Forensic Medicine, Govt. MedicalCollege, Calicut, Kerala state, South India. The incidences arefound to be varying according to the social and economic statusof the society. This retrospective study was done in a tertiarycare Government Hospital to find the major predisposingfactors influencing the suicide by hanging.Material and Methods: Case history were taken in detailfrom questionnaires to the relations of the deceased and fromPolice. The results were analyzed on the basis of history,postmortem findings and results of laboratory investigations.Results: The age group 16-25 was found to be the mostprevalent (75%) for suicidal hanging. Among the religion,Hindu religion showed the highest (80%) number. Morecases were found among the manual labourers and lowermiddle class people. People without children were moreprone to suicide by hanging. Among the precipitating factors,mental illness was the highest factor. Fracture of hyoid bonewas found during autopsy in majority of cases of completehanging.Conclusion: Psychological upset and educational statusplayed an important role in suicidal hanging. The highestincidence was seen among those with lower educational status.Hence, proper identification of such people and presentingthem to effective counselling may reduce the incident rate.