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Prabu Rajkumar
Researcher at Indian Council of Medical Research
Publications - 13
Citations - 111
Prabu Rajkumar is an academic researcher from Indian Council of Medical Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 11 publications receiving 39 citations.
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A cross-sectional study on prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in India: rationale and methods
Prabu Rajkumar,Kamaraj Pattabi,Selvaraj Vadivoo,Arvind B. Bhome,Bill Brashier,Prashanta Bhattacharya,Sanjay Mehendale +6 more
TL;DR: The primary objective is to estimate the prevalence of COPD among adults aged ≥25 years for each gender in India and to identify the risk factors for COPD and important comorbid conditions such as asthma and post-tuberculosis sequelae.
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National noncommunicable disease monitoring survey (NNMS) in India: Estimating risk factor prevalence in adult population.
Prashant Mathur,Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan,Sravya Leburu,Anand Krishnan,Himanshu K. Chaturvedi,Harshal Ramesh Salve,Ritvik Amarchand,Baridalyne Nongkynrih,P. Ganesh Kumar,K S Vinay Urs,Lakshmy Ramakrishnan,Avula Laxmaiah,Manjit Boruah,Sanjeev Kumar,Binod Kumar Patro,Pankaja Raghav,Prabu Rajkumar,P. Sankara Sarma,Rinku Sharma,Muralidhar Tambe,Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan,N. Arlappa,Tulika Goswami Mahanta,Rajnish Joshi,Neeti Rustagi,Sonia Gupta,Binod Kumar Behera,Sangita Chandrakant Shelke,Abhiruchi Galhotra,Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan,Abhijit Pakhare,Dewesh Kumar,Roshan Kamal Topno,Manoj Kumar Gupta,Atulkumar V. Trivedi,Suneela Garg +35 more
TL;DR: The National NCD Monitoring Survey (NNMS) as discussed by the authors was the first comprehensive national survey to assess India's progress towards targets in national NCD monitoring framework and NCD Action Plan.
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Preparedness of primary and secondary health facilities in India to address major noncommunicable diseases: results of a National Noncommunicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS)
Anand Krishnan,Prashant Mathur,Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan,Harshal Ramesh Salve,Sravya Leburu,Ritvik Amarchand,Baridalyne Nongkynrih,Himanshu K. Chaturvedi,Parasuraman Ganeshkumar,Vinay Urs K S,Avula Laxmaiah,Manjit Boruah,Sanjeev Kumar,Binod Kumar Patro,Pankaja Raghav,Prabu Rajkumar,P. Sankara Sarma,Rinku Sharma,Muralidhar Tambe,Nimmathota Arlappa,Tulika Goswami Mahanta,Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan,Rajnish Joshi,Abhijit Pakhare,Abhiruchi Galhotra,Dewesh Kumar,Binod Kumar Behera,Roshan Kamal Topno,Manoj Kumar Gupta,Neeti Rustagi,Atulkumar V. Trivedi,Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan,Sonia Gupta,Suneela Garg,Sangita Chandrakant Shelke,Co-investigators +35 more
TL;DR: Both private and public primary care facilities and public secondary facilities are currently not adequately prepared to comprehensively address the burden of NCDs in India.
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International open trial of uniform multidrug therapy regimen for leprosy patients: Findings & implications for national leprosy programmes
P. Manickam,Sanjay Mehendale,Bathyala Nagaraju,Kiran Katoch,Abdul Jamesh,Ramalingam Kutaiyan,Shen Jianping,Shivakumar Mugudalabetta,Vitthal Jadhav,Prabu Rajkumar,Jayasree Padma,Kanagasabai Kaliaperumal,Vijayakumar Pannikar,Padabettu Krishnamurthy,Mohan D Gupte +14 more
TL;DR: Evidence supports introduction of U-MDT in national leprosy programmes as uniform MDT in a single-arm open trial under programme conditions.
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Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15-17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India.
Prashant Mathur,Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan,Sravya Leburu,Anand Krishnan,Himanshu K. Chaturvedi,Harshal Ramesh Salve,Ritvik Amarchand,Baridalyne Nongkynrih,Parasuraman Ganeshkumar,Vinay Urs K S,Avula Laxmaiah,Manjit Boruah,Sanjeev Kumar,Binod Kumar Patro,Pankaja Raghav,Prabu Rajkumar,P. Sankara Sarma,Rinku Sharma,Muralidhar Tambe,N. Arlappa,Tulika Goswami Mahanta,Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan,Rajnish Joshi,Abhijit Pakhare,Abhiruchi Galhotra,Dewesh Kumar,Binod Kumar Behera,Roshan Kamal Topno,Manoj Kumar Gupta,Neeti Rustagi,Atulkumar V. Trivedi,Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan,Sonia Gupta,Suneela Garg,Sangita Chandrakant Shelke +34 more
TL;DR: A community-based, national, cross-sectional survey conducted during 2017-2018 by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) with 10 reputed implementing research institutes/organisations across India in urban and rural areas was conducted to generate national estimates of key non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors for adolescents.