International Journal of Health Research and Medico Legal Practice

Nandita Dutta ¹, Biju Dutta Choudhury ¹, Neena Nath ², Moni Saikia Anku ³

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Physiology, Gauhati Medical College, Assam, IN
2 Dept. of Medicine, Tezpur Medical College, IN
3 Dept. of Community Medicine, Gauhati Medical College, IN

Abstract

Regular physical exercise prevents the occurrence of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, halts their progress and also decreases their intensity. It is very much important to study the cardiac changes and glyacemic status of an athlete, who enjoys the extreme height of physical fitness, and non-athlete. This study was done to see the physiological adaptive electrical cardiac changes and blood glucose level of athletes and compare the changes with non-athlete individuals. A total of 100 male athletes of Sports Authority of India, Guwahati and 100-age match male control that were non-athletes were studied. 12-lead resting E.C.G. was recorded using a BPL-CARDIART 108-DIGI electrograph and post-absorptive blood glucose level is estimated by glucose oxidase/peroxidase (GOD/POD) colorimetric method of Tinder. The significance of the difference of the mean was calculated by Student t-test. In this study, bradycardia and early repolarization is found to be more in athletes (27% and 24%) in comparison to non-athletes (0% and 12%) respectively. Significant difference noted in heart rate (66.55±11.40/sec Vs.80.64±12.35/sec); PR-interval (0.1502±0.027/sec. Vs. 0.1356±0.019sec); and QRS amplitude (33.87±5.68mm) vs. (26.98±4.85mm). Athletes showed significantly (92.42±9.75mg/dl Vs. 96.53±16.46mg/dl) better glycaemic status than the non-athlete group. Regular physical training cause asymptomatic physiological adaptive cardiac changes and it also helps to maintain better glycaemic status.

Keywords

Physical Training, Cardiac Electrical Activity, Glycaemic Status, Sedentary Person, Adaptation Change.

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Tanusri Bardhan , Moni Saikia Anku ¹, Rupali Baruah ²

Affiliations
1 Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati, Assam-781032, IN
2 Department of Community Medicine, Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati, Assam-781032, IN

Abstract

Purpose: Substance use poses a serious threat to the nutritional status of growing adolescents. Thus the study was conducted to assess the nutritional status of adolescent substance users living in the slums of Guwahati city and to evaluate the relationship between nutritional status and substance use behaviour. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from 1^st February till 31^st May 2014. Using the prevalence of substance use as 43.4%, absolute precision of 7% and design effect of 2, sample size was calculated as 401. Cluster sampling method was used to select 23 slums. From each slum, 18 adolescents (9 boys and 9 girls) were interviewed to get a total of 414 study subjects. For nutritional assessment, 24-hour dietary recall, Body Mass Index, and haemoglobin estimation was done. Data was analysed using SPSS 16.0. Results: Overall prevalence of substance users was 37.7% and current users was 35.0%. Anaemia was found to be significantly associated with substance use status. However, relationship between BMI, calorie deficit and substance use status was not found to be statistically significant. Conclusion: Relationship of anaemia with substance use behaviour invites more evidence based research for effective intervention. However, a temporal association could not be established between the two.

Keywords

Nutritional Assessment, Substance User, Anaemia, Slum Dweller.

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