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Insulin found useful to combat heart ailments
ANOTHER ALUMNUS of Allahabad University (AU) has made the varsity proud.Dr Paresh Dandona, a former student of AU having a long list of achievements under his name in the field of medicine has achieved a breakthrough in the treatment of heart patients using insulin in combination with other drugs.
ANOTHER ALUMNUS of Allahabad University (AU) has made the varsity proud.
Dr Paresh Dandona, a former student of AU having a long list of achievements under his name in the field of medicine has achieved a breakthrough in the treatment of heart patients using insulin in combination with other drugs.
Presently head of endocrinology division at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Dr Dandona has been engaged in the research on effects of insulin for the past many years.
"I along with a team of doctors from SUNY have now discovered that the insulin can lower the concentrations of two destructive elements C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid-A (SAA), upto 50 percent which reduces inflammation in heart blood vessels and improves the chances of survival of the patient within 48 hours after the heart attack," informed Dr Dandona in an on-line chat from US with HT Allahabad Live..
He said that the findings were made after studying the patients treated with insulin given intravenously along with clot-busting drug reteplase and anti-coagulation drugs.
"To confirm the findings we are going to carry out the study on a large-scale at 25 centres across US under a two-year long study that will start in October followed by a similar study in India and China," he added.
Recalling his association with Allahabad, Dr Dandona said that he completed his BSc from AU in 1960 before going to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for pursuing MBBS.
"I was a member of Amarnath Jha (Muir) Hostel, which had an extraordinary brilliant and talented population of students at that time and the hostel had the reputation of producing leaders in many fields, especially the IAS and IFS", he said.
Dr Dandona found the status of the students AU much better than many reputed institutes of that time.
He said, "Several of my contemporaries ended up as Cabinet Secretaries and Chief Secretaries in several states as well as ambassadors in various countries.
The brilliance and versatility of these students was greater than what I encountered at AIIMS. It was comparable to that I encountered in Oxford where I went as a Rhodes Scholar."
I owe Allahabad a lot of my intellectual and emotional growth and maturity", added Dr Dandona.
Besides, heading the endocrine division, Dr Dandona is also a distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at SUNY, director and founder of Diabetes-Endocrinology of Western New York, Head of endocrinology division Kaleida Health/Millard Fillmore Hospital NY and consultant endocrinologist at a number of reputed hospitals in NY. Dr Dandona has been felicitated with many national and international awards.
