Bruxism: Prevalence among Software Professionals

Background: Software professionals perform boundary-spanning activities and are always at the fear of job security and cost cut-offs. These characteristics of the software professionals are bound to have massive impact on their healthy living. Many studies have related bruxism with stress. Thus, this study is conducted to know the prevalence of bruxism among software professionals. Aims: To know the prevalence of bruxism among software professionals. Methods: A total of 232 randomly selected software professionals working for NASSCOM registered Bangalore based software companies were considered for the study. A questionnaire was specially developed to know the study subject’s demographic data, self reported bruxism data, details on personal habits and other details. The bruxism was recorded as per the ASDA clinical research diagnostic criteria for bruxism. The data was subjected to statistical analysis.  Results: In the study sample, prevalence of bruxism was 35.5% with no difference between genders. Bruxism rarely occurs alone. Conclusion: The prevalence of bruxism in the study population is 35.5%.The results of this study raise an important concern about the prevalence of bruxism among software professionals

Nutrition Research in India Underweight, Stunted, or Wasted?

AbstractIndia has experienced dramatic economic growth in the past 2 decades accompanied by a rising burden of noncommunicable diseases, which coexists with the unfinished agenda of undernutrition. Tackling these dual challenges requires strong investment in nutrition research. We compared India's research output with another rapidly developing country (China) and an established developed country (USA). We analyzed trends for each country between the periods 2000 to 2005 and 2006 to 2010, in terms of quantity and quality of the publications. India produced 2,712 articles (1.9% of the global total) in the 2000 to 2005 period and 3,999 articles (2.1%) in the 2006 to 2010 period, and the country impact factor was 191 and 174, respectively. The contributions to the top 10 nutrition journals during 2006 to 2010 was 1%. India must increase investment in and attention towards quality nutrition research and address potential barriers to publish