International Journal of Current Research and Review

Usually, the stratospheric ozone show its significance in the variability of mesospheric tides in normal days over the low-latitude region. But during sudden stratosphere warmings, the water vapor and ozone over the polar region change and shows some different effects on mesosphere tides. In the present study, G. Venkata et al have provided the unusual changes in both water vapor and ozone over Antarctica and their role in altering the mesospheric tides. Read More 

As per study of S. Bashir et al  focal dystonia were more common even in younger age group with Writers cramp most common among all dystonia followed by cervical dystonia. In hemidystonia structural lesion should always be ruled out. Read more

A research conducted by Karabi Konar et al to calculate the proportion of children suffering from thalassemias and hemoglobinopathies amongst the patients of microcytic anemia and assessment of the clinical and hematological parameters of selected patients. Read more

A review by Chitra et al   to analyse relation between  Obesity and T ype 2 diabetes is awarded ' Best Article ' for Vol 10 issue 10 by IJCRR. Obesity  is thought to be the primary cause of type 2 diabetes in people who are genetically predisposed to the disease.  Diabetes mellitus type II  is a metabolic disorder  that is characterized by hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) in the context of insulin resistance and relative lack of insulin . Read more

A study by Karanpreet et al  conducted to evaluate and compare Renal, Hepatic and Coagulation profiles in normotensive pregnant females at 20 weeks or more gestaion and in cases of Pregnancy induced Hypertension at same gestation is given ' Best Article Award ' for Vol 10 issue 09. Read more

A clinicopathological study by Manzoor et al was conducted at ASCOMS, Jammu has revealed that Ovarian carcinoma represents the sixth most common female cancer and the fourth leading cause of death due to cancers in women. Read more

A study by Deepali et al analysed that Physiotherapy students had significantly lower Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire scores than nursing students [p≤ 0.05]. Hence, physiotherapy students have less negative beliefs towards low back pain than nursing students. Read more

Parents play an important role in oral hygiene of their children starting from primary school. Read more

To compare whether somatostatin is as effective as H2 blockers to stop the bleeding, a study by  Caglayan Geredeli  was conducted in patients who were admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine of Dicle University. The study revealed that average time passed to stop the bleeding was 15 hours (6-24 hours) for the somatostatin group, whereas it was 34 hours (6-72 hours) for the H2 receptor blocker group. Read more

A study on 132 patients of Head and Neck cancer in South East Asia was conducted by Arifa Aziz et al. As per this study,  Head and neck cancers were observed to be more common in males 101 (76.5%) as compared to females 29 (22%). The commonest environmental factors causing head and neck cancer included various forms of smokeless tobacco including pan, mainpuri, supari and gutka. Out of 132 patients, 77 (58.3%) were using smokeless tobacco, 41(31.1%) were cigarette smokers and 6 (4.5%) were using alcohol. The commonest cause was found to be different forms of smokeless tobacco easily accessible to the public. Read more

191 Journal titles covered in Indian Citation Index are pending for evaluation by the Standing Committee. The list of pending journals for evaluation is available at  https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/191_Journals.pdf

UGC removed 4305 journals from 'Master List'  https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/4305_Journals.pdf

A study conducted on 1000 students of class 8 th , 9 th , 10 th of government and private schools of Udaipur city (Rajasthan) with prior consent and found that  Girls (12.6%) were more overweight/obese, than boys (8.6%). Majority (87.74%) of the study subjects belonged to nuclear family and rest from joint. Read more 

A Cross sectional study was done among the girl students of primary school in Buraydah City in the age group of 7-9 yrs with sample size of 401 and found that a mong the 401 study subjects, dental caries are prevalent  upto 80.80% in primary teeth and 29% in permanent teeth. Read more

A study has shown that incidence of atherosclerosis is more common in males compared to females; but there is a progressives increase in the proportion of females who present with coronary atherosclerosis.  Incidence of Left coronary artery involvement was 85%, Right coronary artery involvement was 63%. Read more

Editorial  This issue contains many articles, case reports of interest for the readers. It is not possible for me to cover all of them in my note, but I am sure that our young researchers and especially postgraduates would take the maximum benefit out of them. For a high IF, we need to have more of good quality original articles having high citation values. All senior members are urged to submit their prime research work and consider IJCRR as their first -choice journal. Further, suggestions of any type, especially related to any columns to be included, are most welcome.  To read more