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Metabolic Syndrome refers to the clustering of risk factors
including obesity, elevated blood pressure (hypertension), elevated
blood sugars, dyslipidaemia (high triglycerides & low HDL
concentration) and hence increased risk for developing many serious
medical conditions including type 2 diabetes, myocardial
infarction, and stroke & early death. Lifestyle changes, one of
the main factor, due to fast increasing urbanization, especially in
developing countries like India, has led to the development of
serious health problems like obesity, hypertension, diabetes, etc.
which in turn lead to the complications like Metabolic Syndrome .
About one third of the urban population in India's major cities
have Metabolic Syndrome. The National Cholesterol Education Program
Adult Treatment Panel III simplified the definition of Metabolic
Syndrome to make it user friendly for medical practitioners. Our
study included faculty members of different professional streams
using NCEP ATPIII criteria and was concluded that medical faculty
had maximum percentage of subjects having Metabolic Syndrome. Early
lifestyle modification leads to the reduction in these risk factors
and hence to Metabolic Syndrome.
In India, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are estimated to be
responsible for 1.5 million deaths annually. Indeed, it is
estimated that by 2020, CVDs will be the largest cause of mortality
and morbidity in India. Hypertension is a major risk factor for
CVDs, including stroke and myocardial infarction, and its burden is
increasing disproportionately in developing countries. It is
estimated that around two-thirds of those with people with
hypertension worldwide were living in developing countries (639
million) in 2000, and that this would rise to three-quarters living
in developing countries (1.15 billion) by 2025. Uric acid builds up
when the body makes too much of it, fails to excrete it or both. It
is a metabolic product resulting from purine. It remains possible
that uric acid is a marker for xanthine oxidase-associated oxidants
and that the latter could be driving the hypertensive response.
However, the evidence suggests that uric acid is a true modifying
and possibly causal factor for human primary hypertension. Hence,
early management of hyperuricemia might delay the development of
essential hypertension.
Tablets are solid unit dosage form of medicaments with or without
suitable diluents and prepared either by molding or compression.
They are solid, flat or biconvex disc in shape. They vary greatly
in shape, size and weight which depend upon amount of medicament
used and mode of administration. They also vary in hardness,
thickness, disintegration and dissolution characteristics and in
other aspects depending upon their intended use and method of
manufacture. Tablets are the most widely used solid dosage form of
medicament. Because of their advantages their popularity is
continuously increasing day by day. Hypertension is a very common
disorder, particularly past middle age. It is not a disease in
itself, but it is an important risk factor for cardiovascular
mortality and morbidity. The WHO-ISH guidelines defined it to 140
mm Hg systolic and 90 mm Hg diastolic, through risk appears to
increase even above 120/90 mm Hg.
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