David Hammond, Jessica L. Reid, Pete Driezen, James F. Thrasher et al.
INTRODUCTION: More than 100 countries have implemented pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages. However, few studies have compared how consumers from different geographic and cultural contexts respond to health warning content. The current study compares perceptions of warnings among adult s...
Seema Mutti, Jessica L. Reid, Prakash C. Gupta, Mangesh S. Pednekar et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the perceived effectiveness of text and pictorial smokeless tobacco health warnings in India and Bangladesh, including different types of message content. METHODS: An experimental study was conducted in Navi Mumbai, India (n=1002), and Dhaka, Bangladesh (n=1081). Face-to-face i...
Dhirendra Narain Sinha, SA Rizwan, Krishna Kumar Aryal, Khem Bahadur Karki et al.
BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco (SLT) has long been realized as an important component of the fight for global tobacco control. It still remains a major problem in countries like India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The objective of this study was to estimate the trends of SLT use in three countries of the SE...
Om Prakash Gupta, Amit Kumar Singh, Archana Singh, Gyanendra Pratap Singh et al.
Alleviating micronutrients associated problems in children below five years and women of childbearing age, remains a significant challenge, especially in resource-poor nations. One of the most important staple food crops, wheat attracts the highest global research priority for micronutrient (Fe, Zn,...
Manoj Kumar, Pavidharshini Selvasekaran, Ramalingam Chidambaram, Baohong Zhang et al.
Tea residues represent one of the major agricultural wastes that are generated after the processing of tea. They account for 21-28% of crude protein and are often discarded without the extraction of valuable proteins. Due to various bioactivity and functional properties, tea proteins are an excellen...
Seema Mutti, Jessica L. Reid, Prakash C. Gupta, Mangesh S. Pednekar et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, smokeless tobacco use is disproportionately concentrated in low-income and middle-income countries like India and Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES: The current study examined comparative patterns of use and perceptions of harm for different smokeless tobacco products among adults and you...
Om Prakash Gupta, Ajeet Singh, Vanita Pandey, R Sendhil et al.
Addressing global hidden hunger, particularly in women of childbearing age and children under five, presents a significant challenge, with a focus on iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) deficiency. Wheat, a staple crop in the developing world, is crucial for addressing this issue through biofortification effort...
Jae Jeong Yang, Danxia Yu, Xiao‐Ou Shu, Wanqing Wen et al.
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the time course of mortality reduction following smoking cessation in Asians who have smoking behaviours distinct from their Western counterparts. We evaluated the level of reduction in all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and lung cancer mortality by years since...
Seema Mutti-Packer, Jessica L. Reid, James F. Thrasher, Daniel Römer et al.
Objective There is strong evidence showing that pictorial health warnings are more effective than text-only warnings. However, much of this evidence comes from high-income countries and is limited to cigarette packaging. Moreover, few studies have identified mechanisms that might explain the impact ...
Jessica L. Reid, Seema Mutti-Packer, Prakash C. Gupta, Qiang Li et al.
Cigarette package health warnings can be an important and low-cost means of communicating the health risks of smoking. We examined whether viewing health warnings in an experimental study influenced beliefs about the health effects of smoking, by conducting surveys with ~500 adult male smokers and ~...
Md. Faysal, Md. Al Amin, Mehrukh Zehravi, Sherouk Hussein Sweilam et al.
Flavonoids in fruits, vegetables, and plant-based drinks have potential neuroprotective properties, with clinical research focusing on their role in reducing oxidative stress, controlling inflammation, and preventing apoptosis. Some flavonoids, such as quercetin, kaempferol, fisetin, apigenin, luteo...
Mozammel Mia, M. Rahman, Munish Kumar Gupta, Neeraj Sharma et al.
Srikanth Yandrapalli, Aaqib H. Malik, Gayatri Pemmasani, Kanika Gupta et al.
PURPOSE The purpose of this research was to study the differences in epidemiology and outcomes of a first myocardial infarction in breast cancer survivors compared to the general female population in the United States. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the United States National Inpatient Sample y...
Arul Prakash A, K. M. Baalamurugan, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, K. Sampath Kumar et al.
Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are characterized by a large number of battery‐powered wireless sensor nodes, and the most challenging aspects of WBSNs are sensor node energy consumption, delay, and security (communication and data) while maintaining regular wireless sensor network (WSN) capab...
Ratan Kumar Paul, Homayun Kabir, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Md Shafiqur Rahaman et al.
Objective: To evaluate and compare in vitro antioxidant activity of methanol extract of the indigenous Withania somnifera with the imported root extract.