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Category: Non-communicable diseases

Posted on November 3, 2019February 3, 2020

Cardiovascular disease risk high in rural area near Chennai

A large study that followed-up people for nearly eight years in a rural area near Chennai finds that cardiovascular disease is becoming an important preventable cause of death in rural…

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Posted on November 2, 2019November 2, 2019

Machine learning-based model can determine if skin cancer can spread

Using machine learning of 17 genomic signatures, researchers from IIIT Delhi and CSIR-IMTECH have developed a webserver called CancerSPP that will help clinicians in classifying cutaneous melanoma as either primary…

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Posted on December 15, 2018December 15, 2018

Bengaluru team identifies novel mutations that influence bipolar disorder, schizophrenia

Bengaluru-based researchers have identified 42 rare mutations that influence clinical outcomes in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis. These mutations are in the genes which are implicated in very severe mental…

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Posted on June 20, 2018

Adults from South, Northeast India have higher risk of cardiovascular disease

Two large surveys covering nearly 8 lakh adults between 2012 and 2014 have found the average 10-year risk of a cardiovascular disease event varying from 13.2% in Jharkhand to 19.5% in…

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Posted on January 27, 2018February 3, 2019

IIT Kanpur team finds possible cause of neurodevelopmental disorders

BMP signalling was previously known to play an important role in the early development of the brain. Now, IIT Kanpur researchers have found that BMP signalling plays an important role…

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Posted on October 6, 2016October 10, 2016

Non-communicable diseases killed more Indians in 2015

  In 2015, India, like other developed countries, had more number of deaths caused by non-communicable diseases. In the case of males, deaths due to non-communicable diseases (3.6 million) were…

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Posted on January 7, 2016

Editorial: Necessary but not good enough

Published in The Hindu on October 3, 2011 A political declaration adopted recently by more than 30 world leaders and 100 senior Ministers at the United Nations General Assembly is…

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