Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Pranil Man Singh Pradhan, Imtiyaz Ali Mir, Shwe Sin
BACKGROUND: In South and Southeast Asian countries, tobacco is consumed in diverse forms, and smoking among women is very low. We aimed to provide national estimates of prevalence and social determinants of smoking and smokeless tobacco use among men and women separately. METHODS: Data from Demograp...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Sam Harper, Linda Ernstsen
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic differentials of tobacco smoking in high-income countries are well described. However, studies to support health policies and place monitoring systems to tackle socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and smokeless tobacco use common in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs)...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Sushil Suri, Ritesh G. Menezes, HN Harsha Kumar et al.
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking issues in developing countries are usually taught non-systematically as and when the topic arose. The World Health Organisation and Global Health Professional Student Survey (GHPSS) have suggested introducing a separate integrated tobacco module into medical school curric...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, N Ramakrishnareddy, Mahbubur Rahman, Imtiyaz Ali Mir
Introduction Health professionals play an important role in providing advice to their patients about tobacco prevention and cessation. Health professionals who use tobacco may be deterred from providing cessation advice and counselling to their patients. We aimed to provide prevalence estimates of t...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Saint Nway Aye
BACKGROUND: Hardcore smoking behaviours and test of hardening are seldom reported from low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). We report country-wise changes in smoking behaviors between two sequential surveys and explored ecologically the relationship between MPOWER scores and smoking behaviors in...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Kiran Acharya, Ishwar Tiwari
OBJECTIVE: To estimate educational and wealth inequalities in demand satisfied with modern methods of family planning (mDFPS). DESIGN: A secondary data analyses of Demographic and Health Surveys. SETTING: Six South Asian countries, Afghanistan (2015), Bangladesh (2014), India (2015-2016), Maldives (...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Anusha Manoharan
INTRODUCTION: E-cigarette (EC) use is seldom reported from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We report the prevalence of "awareness" about EC, its use, and distribution of EC use by sociodemographic factors and cigarette smoking (CS) status. AIMS AND METHODS: We analyzed Global Adult Tobacco...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Mahbubur Rahman, HN Harsha Kumar, Mohsin Shah et al.
BACKGROUND: To estimate the amount of regret and weights of harm by omission and commission during therapeutic decisions for smear-negative pulmonary Tuberculosis. METHODS: An interviewer-administered survey was done among young physicians in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh with a previously used que...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, N Ramakrishnareddy, Mahbubur Rahman
Md Mizanur Rahman, Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Thong Phe, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay
Pediatric tuberculosis which is considered as pauci-bacillary is given low priority in Tuberculosis control. In resource-limited settings national TB control programmes focus on infectious sputum smear-positive cases. As result of this neglect pediatric TB is often under-diagnosed, under-treated and...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Thong Phe, Md Mizanur Rahman
Childhood Tuberculosis accounts for nearly 10% of all cases. Its proportion varies from 5% in high income countries to 39% in low-and-middle income countries. Precise estimates are unavailable due to lack standard case-definition, limited resources for confirmation of diagnosis and inconsistent surv...
Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Md. Mustafizur Rahman
The major challenge of pediatric pulmonary TB (PPTB) is establishing an accurate diagnosis. Less than 15% of cases are sputum AFB smear positive and culture yields are 30-40%. Induced sputum, nasopharyngeal aspirate, early morning gastric aspiration or lavage can give a better yield. Culture on Lowe...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Sushil Suri, Ritesh G. Menezes, H. N. Harsha Kumar et al.
Introduction Tobacco smoking issues in developing countries are usually taught non-systematically as and when the topic arose. Methods A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was carried out among final year undergraduate medical students. An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire included items ...