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Rajni Sharma
Researcher at All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Publications - 166
Citations - 3119
Rajni Sharma is an academic researcher from All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 133 publications receiving 1682 citations. Previous affiliations of Rajni Sharma include AIIMS, New Delhi & Boston Children's Hospital.
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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128.9 million children, adolescents and adults
TL;DR: A Bayesian hierarchical model was used to estimate trends from 1975 to 2016 in 200 countries for mean BMI and for prevalence of BMI in the following categories for children and adolescents aged 5–19 years: moderate and severe underweight.
PEDIATRIC HIGHLIGHT High prevalence of insulin resistance in postpubertal Asian Indian children is associated with adverse truncal body fat patterning, abdominal adiposity and excess body fat
A Misra,NK Vikram,Shipra Arya,Ravindra Mohan Pandey,Vibha Dhingra,Amit Chatterjee,Manjari Dwivedi,Rajni Sharma,Kalpana Luthra,R Guleria,Kewal K. Talwar +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional, population-based epidemiological study was conducted to study the relationship of insulin resistance with generalized and abdominal obesity, and body fat patterning in urban postpubertal Asian Indian children.
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High prevalence of insulin resistance in postpubertal Asian Indian children is associated with adverse truncal body fat patterning, abdominal adiposity and excess body fat.
Anoop Misra,Naval K. Vikram,Shipra Arya,Ravindra Mohan Pandey,Vibha Dhingra,Amit Chatterjee,Manjari Dwivedi,Rajni Sharma,Kalpana Luthra,Randeep Guleria,Kewal K. Talwar +10 more
TL;DR: A high prevalence of insulin resistance in postpubertal urban Asian Indian children was associated with excess body fat, abdominal adiposity, and excess truncal subcutaneous fat and primary prevention strategies for coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus in Asian Indians should focus on the abnormal body composition profile in childhood.
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Consensus physical activity guidelines for Asian Indians.
Arup Kumar Misra,Priyanka Nigam,Andrew P. Hills,Davinder Singh Chadha,Sharma,Kishore Kumar Deepak,Naval K. Vikram,Shilpa Joshi,Chauhan A,Kumud Khanna,Rajni Sharma,Kanchan Mittal,Santosh Jain Passi,Seth,Seema Puri,Devi R,Dubey Ap,Sunita Gupta +17 more
TL;DR: Proper application of guidelines is likely to have a significant impact on the prevalence and management of obesity, the metabolic syndrome, T2DM, and CHD in Asian Indians.
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Adverse profile of dietary nutrients, anthropometry and lipids in urban slum dwellers of northern India
TL;DR: In this economically deprived population, now constituting approximately 30–50% of the urban population of major cities in India, such adverse dietary, anthropometric and metabolic factors are predictors of early and accelerated atherosclerosis.