Aditi Singh

The Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party promised to build new homes where old slums stood in New Delhi. Despite a nine-year-old rehabilitation policy and court orders that require rehabilitation, homes are demolished indiscriminately without. Slum rehabilitation fails because no slum built after 2015 is eligible for rehabilitation; because of the vague definition of a slum that is eligible for rehabilitation; and the thousands of rupees that slum residents must pay for a new home.

Diabetic retinopathy is characterised by neuroinflammation that drives neuronal and vascular degenerative pathology, which in many individuals can lead to retinal ischaemia and neovascularisation. Infiltrating macrophages and activated retina-resident microglia have been implicated in the progression of diabetic retinopathy, although the distinct roles of these immune cells remain ill-defined. Our aim was to clarify the distinct roles of macrophages/microglia in the pathogenesis of proliferative ischaemic retinopathies.

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Objective: Vitamin D deficiency is commonly associated with type 2 diabetes and it has been linked to impaired glycemic control in these patients. This study was done to determine if vitamin D supplementation improves glycemic parameters in type 2 diabetes.Methods: This randomized controlled trial was done in 140 newly diagnosed adult patients with type 2 diabetes. The participants were randomly divided into two groups where one group received vitamin D (60,000 International Units (IU) of oral vitamin D3 weekly for a duration of three months, followed by 1000 IU twice daily for another three months in vitamin D deficient patients; 1000 IU (25 mcg) twice daily for six months for subjects with sufficient vitamin D level) along with standard anti-diabetic drugs while the other group received standard anti-diabetic drugs only. The effect of vitamin D supplementation was assessed by measuring glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), fasting blood sugar (FBS), postprandial blood sugar (PPBS), fasting insulin, and insulin resistance as Homeostasis Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) at the baseline and after six months.Results: Vitamin D deficiency was observed in 60% (n=84) of the subjects with the rest 40% (n=56) having sufficient serum vitamin D levels. The baseline mean HbA1c was 8.48 ± 1.46% and 8.21 ± 1.24% in the control and vitamin D group, respectively. After supplementing vitamin D for six months, no significant difference was observed between the two groups in terms of HbA1c (p= 0.263). Similarly, there was no significant change in other parameters like FBS, PPBS, fasting insulin, and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). A subgroup analysis within the vitamin D group between the vitamin D sufficient and deficient patients also revealed no significant changes in the above parameters.Conclusion: Vitamin D supplementation, within the parameters of this study, did not yield a distinctive advantage in improving glycemic outcomes in individuals with type 2 diabetes.

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