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Soumya Swaminathan
Researcher at Indian Council of Medical Research
Publications - 370
Citations - 78067
Soumya Swaminathan is an academic researcher from Indian Council of Medical Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 353 publications receiving 61963 citations. Previous affiliations of Soumya Swaminathan include Yahoo! & Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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High Prevalence of Lipid Abnormalities and Insulin Resistance Among Antiretroviral Naïve HIV-infected Children in India.
Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarsini,Anita Shet,Ramalingam Srinivasan,Geetha Ramachandran,G. N. Sanjeeva,Poornaganga Devi,Karunainathan Ramesh,P. K. Bhavani,Devaraj Reddy,Elumalai Suresh,Chockalingam Chandrasekhar,Christine Wanke,Soumya Swaminathan +12 more
TL;DR: In the background of high food insecurity and malnutrition, cardiometabolic abnormalities were seen in 20%–35% of ART-naïve CLHIV in India emphasizing close monitoring of these children for long-term cardiovascular morbidities after initiation of ART.
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Persistence of stunting after highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected children in South India.
TL;DR: After one year of antiretroviral treatment in 49 HIV infected children compared to 53 children without, weight for age improved significantly and was highly correlated with baseline immune status and CD4% increase but height for age did not change.
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Research priorities in Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health & Nutrition for India: An Indian Council of Medical Research-INCLEN Initiative.
Narendra K. Arora,Soumya Swaminathan,Archisman Mohapatra,Hema S Gopalan,Vishwa Mohan Katoch,Maharaj K. Bhan,Reeta Rasaily,Chander Shekhar,Vasantha Thavaraj,Malabika Roy,Manoja Kumar Das,Kerri Wazny,Rakesh Kumar,Ajay Khera,Neerja Bhatla,Vanita Jain,Avula Laxmaiah,M. K. C. Nair,Vinod K. Paul,Prema Ramachandran,Siddharth Ramji,Umesh Vaidya,I. C. Verma,Dheeraj Shah,Rajiv Bahl,Shamim Qazi,Igor Rudan,Robert E. Black +27 more
TL;DR: A nationwide exercise engaging faculty from 256 institutions to identify top research priorities in the MNCHN themes for 2016-2025 found unanimity that the research priorities should be considered by different governmental and non-governmental agencies for investment with prioritization on implementation research and issues cutting across themes.
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Challenges in the early diagnosis of HIV infection in infants: Experience from Tamil Nadu, India
Luke Elizabeth Hanna,Valan Adimai Siromany,Madheswaran Annamalai,Ramesh Karunaianantham,Soumya Swaminathan +4 more
TL;DR: Even with high levels of uptake into the EID program, huge delays and loss-to-follow-up observed between the first and second sampling, suggests need for revision of the current testing algorithm.
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Food significantly reduces plasma concentrations of first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs
Agibothu Kupparam Hemanth Kumar,V. Chandrasekaran,Angadi Kiran Kumar,M Kawaskar,J Lavanya,Soumya Swaminathan,Geetha Ramachandran +6 more
TL;DR: Findings showed that food lowered anti-TB drug concentrations significantly and delayed absorption and there is a need for more research on optimization of dosing to maximize efficacy and safety of currently used drugs.