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In second year of pandemic, treating Covid-19 still in trial and error mode SECTIONS Share Synopsis Dr Manish Soneja, additional professor, department of medicine, AIIMS, who was part of the medical team that prepared the national guideline on Covid management, said the right selection of patients who could benefit from these therapies and the timing of their usage have proved to be the most important learning. Agencies Treatment for Covid involves three key components: drugs to reduce the viral load, steroids that can suppress a cytokine storm and drugs to prevent clotting of blood. (This st...

India’s Hypertension Epidemic: Are We Prepared? One in four Indians has high blood pressure. Can government intervention help? outlookindia.com 2021-02-19T13:03:29+05:30 Uncontrolled high blood pressure or hypertension is the most common reason for sudden heart attack among patients in India, reveals a study conducted by the India Hypertension Control Initiative. One in four adults has high blood pressure in India. Among people with high blood pressure, only half have been diagnosed and of those, only 1 in 10 have blood pressure under control. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), primarily...

40% of Covid-hit suffer heart muscle damage ByDurgesh Nandan JhaDurgesh Nandan Jha / Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 06:50 IST (This story was first published in The Times of India on Dec 17, 2020) NEW DELHI: Data of cardiac MRI conducted as part of health research across the world has revealed that 40% of Covid-19 recovered or active heart muscles. The results, which were collated and published recently in Journal of Thoracic Imaging (JTI), showed that out of 199 Covid-19 patients, mostly recovered, 90 (40%) had myocarditis or inflammation of the heart muscle. Only 21% had a normal MRI. The rest ha...