Prashant Mathur
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
9 Papers
96 Citations
Prashant Mathur is an academic researcher from All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Chronic liver disease. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 9 publications. Previous affiliations of Prashant Mathur include Indian Council of Medical Research.
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Papers
Urban rural differences in prevalence of self-reported diabetes in India—The WHO–ICMR Indian NCD risk factor surveillance
Viswanathan Mohan,Prashant Mathur,Raj Deepa,Mohan Deepa,Deepak Kumar Shukla,Geetha R Menon,Krishnan Anand,Nimesh G. Desai,Prashant P. Joshi,J Mahanta,Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan,Bela Shah +11 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the prevalence of self-reported diabetes is higher in urban, intermediate in peri-urban and lowest in rural areas, and urban residence, abdominal obesity and physical inactivity are the risk factors associated with diabetes in this study.
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Are the urban poor vulnerable to non-communicable diseases? A survey of risk factors for non-communicable diseases in urban slums of Faridabad.
Krishnan Anand,Bela Shah,Kapil Yadav,Ritesh Singh,Prashant Mathur,Eldho Paul,Suresh K. Kapoor +6 more
TL;DR: The high prevalence of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases across all age groups in this urban slum community indicates the likelihood of a high future burden of illness.
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and childhood obesity
TL;DR: The important message is that childhood obesity poses important health problems, including but not limited to potentially severe chronic liver disease, and early diagnosis of children who are only overweight is a worthy goal so that strategies to limit obesity can be instituted as early as possible.
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Sero-epidemiology of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in urban and rural children of North India.
TL;DR: The observed antibody prevalence in both urban and rural subjects at each age interval after 48 months was less as compared to the expected levels and this gap increased with advancing age categories, suggesting that there was a decay of HEV antibodies with time.
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Pancreatic diseases in children in a north Indian referral hospital.
TL;DR: This was a cross-sectional study to determine the profile of pancreatic disorders in 54 children presenting to a tertiary care center in India and found at least some of the 13 children with idiopathic chronic pancreatitis had features suggestive of tropical pancreatitis.