Shiva Raj Mishra

Health system preparedness for COVID-19 and its impacts on frontline health care workers in Nepal: a qualitative study among frontline healthcare workers and policymakers.

Nipun Shrestha, Shiva Raj Mishra, Saruna Ghimire, Bishal Gyawali, Sujan Babu Marahatta, Smriti Maskey, Sushila Baral, Nilima Shrestha, Rakesh Yadav, Sunil Pokhrel, Bipin Adhikari

Journal article  |  2021  |  Disaster Med Public Health Prep

BACKGROUND: Rapidly growing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the health system..

Health System Capacity and Access Barriers to Diagnosis and Treatment of CVD and Diabetes in Nepal.

Abhishek Sharma, Warren A Kaplan, Gautam Satheesh, Indra Prasad Poudyal, Pawan Gyawali, Dinesh Neupane, Parash Mani Bhandari, Milan Malla, Surendra Sapkota, Shiva Raj Mishra

Journal article  |  2021  |  Glob Heart

Background: Universal access to essential medicines and routine diagnostics is required to combat the growing burden of cardiovasc..

HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG HAEMODIALYSIS AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS FROM NEPAL: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY USING WHOQOL-BREF

Kamal Ranabhat, Shiva Raj Mishra, Pratik Khanal, Bhoj Raj Adhikari, Mahesh Raj Sigdel, Bandana Pradhan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Hypertension

Association of the length of oestrogen exposure with risk of incident stroke in postmenopausal women: Insights from a 20-year prospective study.

Shiva Raj Mishra, Michael Waller, Hsin-Fang Chung, Gita D Mishra

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int J Cardiol

BACKGROUND: To examine the relationship between the length of oestrogen exposure and risk of incident stroke. Also, the additive v..

Duration of estrogen exposure during reproductive years, age at menarche and age at menopause, and risk of cardiovascular disease events, all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

SR Mishra, H-F Chung, M Waller, GD Mishra

Journal article  |  2021  |  BJOG

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the estrogen exposure measurement and mutual effect of age at menarche and age at menopause in t..

MAY MEASUREMENT MONTH 2019: AN ANALYSIS OF BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING RESULTS IN NEPAL

Pratik Khanal, Hari Krishna Bhattarai, Kamal Ranabhat, Tara Ballav Adhikari, Sweta Koirala, Surya Parajuli, Yashashwi Pokharel, Shiva Raj Mishra, Aamod Dhoj Shrestha, Santosh Paudel, Pabitra Babu Soti, Sweta Mahato, Ghanashyam Pandey, Pawan Gyawali, Sadhana Pandey, Surya Devkota, Bhagawan Koirala, Dinesh Neupane

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Hypertension

Association of altitude and urbanization with hypertension and obesity: analysis of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016.

Suresh Mehata, Nipun Shrestha, Saruna Ghimire, Emily Atkins, Deepak Kumar Karki, Shiva Raj Mishra

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int Health

BACKGROUND: Nepal's Himalayan range attracts mountaineers, climbers and tourists from all across the globe. Limited recent evidenc..

Patient satisfaction and its socio-demographic correlates in a tertiary public hospital in Nepal: a cross-sectional study.

Mukesh Adhikari, Narendra Raj Paudel, Shiva Raj Mishra, Archana Shrestha, Dipak Prasad Upadhyaya

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC Health Serv Res

BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction is one proxy indicator of the health care quality; however, enhancing patient satisfaction in low..

A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality From 2015 Gorkha Earthquakes of Nepal: Evidence and Future Recommendations.

Bipin Adhikari, Parash Mani Bhandari, Dipika Neupane, Shiva Raj Mishra

Journal article  |  2021  |  Disaster Med Public Health Prep

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore the mortality pattern due to Gorkha earthquakes in 2015 and review the response an..

Effectiveness of a Female Community Health Volunteer-Delivered Intervention in Reducing Blood Glucose Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: An Open-Label, Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

Bishal Gyawali, Rajan Sharma, Shiva Raj Mishra, Dinesh Neupane, Abhinav Vaidya, Annelli Sandbæk, Per Kallestrup

Journal article  |  2021  |  JAMA Netw Open

Importance: Female community health volunteers (FCHVs) are frontline community health workers who have been a valuable resource in..