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Background/Aims : A cross-sectional study was undertaken on 767 urban male volunteers performing physical activity and 469 age and socioeconomic status matched controls not doing any physical activity from the city limits of North India. Materials and Methods : Height and weight were recorded for each participant to determine their Body Mass Index (BMI). Body fat percentage and weight was measured using a body fat monitor. Results : Fifty three percent of the physical activity performers showed normal BMI compared to 49% nonphysical activity performers. Overweight was observed in 43.3% physical activity performers compared to 44.7% nonphysical activity performers. Fifty two percent of physical activity performers had normal body fat percent compared to 48.5% nonphysical activity performers. Low body fat percent was observed in 23.4% physical activity performers compared to 2.7% nonphysical activity performers. High body fat percent was observed in 48.7% nonphysical activity performers compared to 45.8% physical activity performers. Conclusions: Overall, the study suggested that physical activity alone cannot maintain BMI and body fat percent, but it can reduce the risk of overweight and high body fat percent in the population.

Objectives: To assess the mode of bladder management, reasons for stopping intermittent catheterization and complications encountered in bladder management Design: Prospective follow up studySetting: Dept. of PM&R of a tertiary center Methods: Spinal cord injured patients admitted in the unit with at least one-year follow up duration (Total - 479). 124 (25.9%) patients were followed up, mean duration of 23.3 months, of which 48 (38.7%) regained bladder control and were excluded. Results: At initial admission, seventy-one patients (total n=76) were discharged on clean intermittent catheterization. At follow up, 47 (66.1%) stopped intermittent catheterization; ability to pass urine was the primary reason for stopping it in 33 (63.4%) patients. Reflex emptying was the most favored mode of bladder management in 25 (32.9%) along with intermittent catheterization in 24 (31.5%) patients. Bladder autonomy and catheter free status was achieved by 54 (71%) and 39 (51.3%) patients respectively. 69 (90.7%) patients experienced urinary incontinence and 36 (34.2%) had urinary tract infection. Antibiotics and anti-cholinergics were commonly prescribed adjunctive medications in 26 (34.2%) and 16 (20.1%) patients respectively. Conclusion: Most patients stopped doing intermittent catheterization and shifted to other modes of bladder management as per their convenience due to poor follow up.

A 40 year old female presented with erythematous infiltrating plaque on the face involving both the ears with destruction of nasal cartilage and satellite lesions on the right shoulder. Clinical diagnosis of Hansenâ€s disease was later proved to be a case of Lupus vulgaris.

Case report of a 25 year old female who developed yellowish discolouration of palms and soles 2 days after MTP operation is described here.

Cutaneous horns are rare horny excrescences which occur in various dermatoses. We report a girl with prurigo nodularis who developed a horn on one of the nodules. This unique association has not been reported so far.

We identify room-temperature converse magnetoelectric effects (CMEs) that are non-volatile by using a single-crystal substrate of PMN–PT (001)pc (pc denotes pseudocubic) to impart voltage-driven strain to a polycrystalline film of Ni. An appropriate magnetic-field history enhances the magnetoelectric coefficient to a near-record peak of ∼10−6 s m−1 and permits electrically driven magnetization reversal of substantial net magnetization. In zero magnetic field, electrically driven ferroelectric domain switching produces large changes of in-plane magnetization that are non-volatile. Microscopically, these changes are accompanied by the creation and destruction of magnetic stripe domains, implying the electrical control of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Moreover, the stripe direction can be rotated by a magnetic field or an electric field, the latter yielding the first example of electrically driven rotatable magnetic anisotropy. The observed CMEs are associated with repeatable ferroelectric domain switching that yields a memory effect. This memory effect is well known for PMN–PT (110)pc but not PMN–PT (001)pc. Given that close control of the applied field is not required as for PMN–PT (110)pc, this memory effect could lead the way to magnetoelectric memories based on PMN–PT (001)pc membranes that switch at low voltage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]