International Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders(IJDMD)

Additional Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal

Publications

• Research Article   
  Common Physical Morbidities Among Old People of a City of Eastern Nepal
  Author(s): Dhana Ratna Shakya* and Robin Maskey
  
  Introduction: The data regarding the prevalence of common health problems of elderly people will help raise concern for their wellbeing. Objective: To measure prevalence of common physical problems among old people. Methodology: The community old people were the members of a local group in a city of eastern Nepal and they were the subject of this study. Out of total of 140 old people of age ≥ 60 years responding to the GHQ-12 and the questionnaire about demographic and clinical information (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, thyroid and other common diseases) after informed written consent and authority approval, blood sample was collected from 115 subjects for Thyroid Function Test, Creatinine and sugar. They attended a health-camp later organized in their city. The data were analysed for the physical morbidities.. Read More»
  

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