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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
The major claim of the paper is that diabetes mellitus is very prevalent in India. The authors conclude that the general public needs to be better educated.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
I don't think the claims are novel, but then this is a review article. I think the authors summed up the literature nicely to bring their point across.
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
Yes
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
This is not a data paper. I think the autors picked good papers to make their point in a review article.
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
NA
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
NA
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
NA
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
I think this review may actually be used to educate the public.
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Other Comments:
No
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Competing interests:
No
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
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Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
No experience in the area. I was invited by the publisher to write a review and liked the paper.
- How to cite: Pruess B .Review Yadav et al[Review of the article 'Assessment of Diabetes Mellitus in India and Nepal ' by Kalai R].WebmedCentral 2012;3(7):WMCRW002029
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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
The paper claims to review occurance of diabetes mellitus in India and Nepal. It is a very important study to give valuable information about prevalence of diabetes in India and Nepal. However it poses international and national significance.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
Yes. The claims are novel and nicely reviewed.
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
yes. The claims are properly placed in the context of the relevant and appropriate literature.
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
The results obtained supports the adequately the claims of the paper.
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
Protocol prived is adequeate and appropriate.
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
The methodology is valid and offer enough details of the methodology and can be easily verified and reproduced.
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
No. The review is written nicely.
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
The paper is outstanding in its discipline. The information cited and reviewed are very important to understand, analyze and design further experiments related to medical research. It opens new vistas for many more research.
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Other Comments:
Some more international information and a comparison with other countries would be relevant and would be very interesting.
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Competing interests:
No.
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
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Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
20 years
- How to cite: Sarkar P K.Awareness to improve educational aspects on prevalence of diabetes and its management: An assessment study of diabetes mellitus in India and Nepal. [Review of the article 'Assessment of Diabetes Mellitus in India and Nepal ' by Kalai R].WebmedCentral 2012;3(7):WMCRW002021
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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
The authors state the clear need for wider surveyes regarding the prevalence of Diabetes in India and Nepal. This is an important issue with clinical relevance. Since this is a review article, no new data has been presented, therefore, the reader just gets the main ideia of what is happening in terms of the distribuition of the disease among the population.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
This is a review article, which reinforces previous observations.
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
In spite of the limited literature resources available dealing with this very particular case, the authors could have expanded their review, by establishing some paralel with what is reported in other regions of the globe.
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
not applicable
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
not applicable
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
The statistics in the data are missing. Therefore, it is dificult for a clear-cut analysis, in establishing if the differences observed e.g. between males and females in the "prevalence of diabetes mellitus in rural India", although in data refering to Nepal, the p values are there.
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
A more in-depth analysis of the literature would allow to obtain more data that could be shown.
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
This paper states a problem, not to clearly.
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Other Comments:
It is odd to read a review paper that incorporates sections such as "Methods" or "Results". If it is a review of the literature, the results are someones else, and there are no methods.
The format should be modified. Also the english should be improved.
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Competing interests:
no
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
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Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
I have no experience with Diabetes. My main research topics are RNA biology (biochemistry).
- How to cite: Anonymous.Assessment of Diabetes Mellitus in India and Nepal [Review of the article 'Assessment of Diabetes Mellitus in India and Nepal ' by Kalai R].WebmedCentral 2012;3(7):WMCRW002017
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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in urban and rural area of India and Nepal.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
Yes, there are the current data for scientist, medical and postgraduate student to plan thier work.
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
Yes, it is.
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
Yes, the authors search all data from national and national serach that covered the current prevalence of diabetes mellitus from both nation.
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
Published research articles, books, bulletins, and online materials regarding to diabetes mellitus were studied both in national and international scenarios. This method is a good for support thier data.
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
Yes, it is
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
NA
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
Yes
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Other Comments:
No
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Competing interests:
None
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
Yes
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References:
Kaewpitoon N, Kaewpitoon SJ, Pengsaa P. Opisthorchiasis in Thailand: review and current status. World J Gastroenterol. 2008 Apr 21;14(15):2297-302.
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Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
None - How to cite: Kaewpitoon N .Assessment of Diabetes Mellitus in India and Nepal[Review of the article 'Assessment of Diabetes Mellitus in India and Nepal ' by Kalai R].WebmedCentral 2012;3(7):WMCRW002010
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The paper puts forth the importance of having a national diabetes survey in India and Nepal. While such a survey is important this paper has no new data, only reviews and compilation of other research surveys.
No the claims are not novel.
Association between socioeconomic status and self-reported diabetes in India: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis.
Corsi DJ, Subramanian SV.
BMJ Open. 2012 Jul 18;2(4). pii: e000895. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000895. Print 2012.
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There are no new results in this paper hence the question of evidence does not arise.
There are no protocols or plans provided for future surveys.
As said before there are no experiments or analyses done for the paper. It is a review of previously published research.
The authors are affiliated with a medical college, hence it should not be too difficult to start a survey and get enough data for a paper.
No the paper is not outstanding in its discipline as it is not novel or have new data. There is no work to be presented.
Diabetes (like heart disease) is a chronic progressive and debiliating disease that can be prevented or controlled by awareness and lifestyle changes. It creates an unnecessary, preventable economic drain on the people. It is important to address the diabetes epidemic at the earliest starting with national surveys in India and Nepal.
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I have 8 years experience in Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Immunology and Virology.