Amit Varma
9 Papers
51 Citations
Amit Varma is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diabetes mellitus & Blood pressure. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 9 publications.
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Papers
Study on drug prescribing pattern in hypertensive patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital at Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Mirza Atif Beg,Shaktibala Dutta,Amit Varma,Ravi Kant,Shalu Bawa,Mohammad Anjoom,Saubhagya Sindhu,Santosh Kumar +7 more
TL;DR: Most commonly prescribed drugs were ARBs and ACE inhibitors in hypertensive patients, and Rational prescribing requires consideration to dose and duration and interaction with other medications.
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Study on drug prescribing pattern in diabetes mellitus patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital at Dehradun, Uttarakhand
TL;DR: Rational prescribing can be improved by sensitizing physicians and providing them with the feedback of the study, and the most commonly prescribed drugs were Metformin and Glimepiride.
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A drug utilization and pharmacoeconomic study of anti-diabetic drugs prescribed to type 2 diabetes mellitus patients visiting the medicine out-patient department of a tertiary care hospital of north India
TL;DR: The prescribing trend was rational to a great extent and had improved since the earlier study in the same institute, and the most cost-effective anti-diabetic therapy was combination therapy of glipizide and metformin.
A retrospective analysis of adverse drug reactions in a tertiary care teaching hospital at Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Shakti B. Dutta,Mirza Atif Beg,Shalu Bawa,Mohammed Anjoom,Amit Varma,Nand Kishore Singh,Anil Kumar Mehta,Sandip Kudesia +7 more
TL;DR: The drugs most frequently associated with ADRs were non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), fluoroquinolones, penicillins, cephalosporins and phenytoin sodium, followed by others.
To study the preferred antihypertensive drugs in patients suffering from diabetes mellitus at a tertiary care hospital of Uttarakhand with an emphasis on compelling indications
TL;DR: ACE-I and ARBs were the preferred antihypertensive drugs prescribed in diabetic hypertensive and should be individualized depending upon the compelling indications, to teach UG students about the clinical importance of compelling indications in the treatment of hypertension.