Professor
Christian Medical College Vellore, Ida Scudder Road, Vellore – 632004, Tamil Nadu, India
Nambi SK, Prasad J, Singh D, Abraham V, Kuruvilla A, Jacob KS. Explanatory models and common mental disorders among patients with unexplained somatic symptoms attending a primary care facility in Tamil Nadu. Natl Med J India. 2002 Nov-Dec;15(6):331-5. PMID: 12540066.
Abraham VJ, Balraj V, Shankar N, Job A, Joseph A. Training teachers of day care centres for primary ear care. Trop Doct. 2003 Apr;33(2):98-100. doi: 10.1177/004947550303300215. PMID: 12680545. Link
Joseph A, Abraham S, Muliyil JP, George K, Prasad J, Minz S, Abraham VJ, Jacob KS. Evaluation of suicide rates in rural India using verbal autopsies, 1994-9. BMJ. 2003 May 24;326(7399):1121-2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1121. PMID: 12763983; PMCID: PMC156005.
Aaron R, Joseph A, Abraham S, Muliyil J, George K, Prasad J, Minz S, Abraham VJ, Bose A. Suicides in young people in rural southern India. Lancet. 2004 Apr 3;363(9415):1117-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15896-0. PMID: 15064031. Link
Abraham VJ, Abraham S, Jacob KS. Suicide in the elderly in Kaniyambadi block, Tamil Nadu, South India. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005 Oct;20(10):953-5. doi: 10.1002/gps.1385. PMID: 16163746. Link
Shah B, Sharma M, Kumar R, Brahmadathan KN, Abraham VJ, Tandon R. Rheumatic heart disease: progress and challenges in India. Indian J Pediatr. 2013 Mar;80 Suppl 1:S77-86. doi: 10.1007/s12098-012-0853-2. Epub 2012 Sep 2. PMID: 22941214.
Nambi SK, Prasad J, Singh D, Abraham V, Kuruvilla A, Jacob KS. Explanatory models and common mental disorders among patients with unexplained somatic symptoms attending a primary care facility in Tamil Nadu. Natl Med J India. 2002 Nov-Dec;15(6):331-5. PMID: 12540066.
Abraham VJ, Balraj V, Shankar N, Job A, Joseph A. Training teachers of day care centres for primary ear care. Trop Doct. 2003 Apr;33(2):98-100. doi: 10.1177/004947550303300215. PMID: 12680545. Link
Joseph A, Abraham S, Muliyil JP, George K, Prasad J, Minz S, Abraham VJ, Jacob KS. Evaluation of suicide rates in rural India using verbal autopsies, 1994-9. BMJ. 2003 May 24;326(7399):1121-2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1121. PMID: 12763983; PMCID: PMC156005.
Aaron R, Joseph A, Abraham S, Muliyil J, George K, Prasad J, Minz S, Abraham VJ, Bose A. Suicides in young people in rural southern India. Lancet. 2004 Apr 3;363(9415):1117-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15896-0. PMID: 15064031. Link
Abraham VJ, Abraham S, Jacob KS. Suicide in the elderly in Kaniyambadi block, Tamil Nadu, South India. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005 Oct;20(10):953-5. doi: 10.1002/gps.1385. PMID: 16163746. Link
Shah B, Sharma M, Kumar R, Brahmadathan KN, Abraham VJ, Tandon R. Rheumatic heart disease: progress and challenges in India. Indian J Pediatr. 2013 Mar;80 Suppl 1:S77-86. doi: 10.1007/s12098-012-0853-2. Epub 2012 Sep 2. PMID: 22941214.
Amritanand A, Paul P, Jasper S, Kumar SPV, Abraham V. Incorporating primary eye care into primary health care: Piloting a perceived visual disability questionnaire based model in rural southern India - An observational study. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2018 Jul;66(7):957-962. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_144_18. PMID: 29941739; PMCID: PMC6032735. Link
Bhandari N, Rongsen-Chandola T, Bavdekar A, John J, Antony K, Taneja S, Goyal N, Kawade A, Kang G, Rathore SS, Juvekar S, Muliyil J, Arya A, Shaikh H, Abraham V, Vrati S, Proschan M, Kohberger R, Thiry G, Glass R, Greenberg HB, Curlin G, Mohan K, Harshavardhan GV, Prasad S, Rao TS, Boslego J, Bhan MK; India Rotavirus Vaccine Group. Efficacy of a monovalent human-bovine (116E) rotavirus vaccine in Indian children in the second year of life. Vaccine. 2014 Aug 11;32 Suppl 1:A110-6. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.079. PMID: 25091663.
Prasad JD, Varghese AK, Jamkhandi D, Chakraborty A, Rakesh PS, Abraham VJ. Quality-of-Life among Elderly with Untreated Fracture of Neck of Femur: A Community Based Study from Southern India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2013 Jul;2(3):270-3. doi: 10.4103/2249-4863.120755. PMID: 24479096; PMCID: PMC3902685.
Athiyarath R, Shaktivel K, Abraham V, Singh D, Bondu JD, Chapla A, George B, Srivastava A, Edison ES. Association of genetic variants with response to iron supplements in pregnancy. Genes Nutr. 2015 Jul;10(4):474. doi: 10.1007/s12263-015-0474-2. Epub 2015 May 30. PMID: 26024779; PMCID: PMC4449341.
Paul SS, Abraham VJ. How healthy is our geriatric population? a community-based cross-sectional study. J Family Med Prim Care. 2015 Apr-Jun;4(2):221-5. doi: 10.4103/2249-4863.154653. PMID: 25949971; PMCID: PMC4408705.
Oommen AM, Abraham VJ, George K, Jose VJ. Rising trend of cardiovascular risk factors between 1991-1994 and 2010-2012: A repeat cross sectional survey in urban and rural Vellore. Indian Heart J. 2016 May-Jun;68(3):263-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2015.09.014. Epub 2016 Jan 13. PMID: 27316476; PMCID: PMC4911447. Link
Manjunath K, Cherian AG, Abraham V, Minz S, George K, Helan J. Trends of HIV prevalence in rural South India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2019 Feb;8(2):669-672. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_326_18. PMID: 30984692; PMCID: PMC6436254.
Jose JJM, Brahmadathan KN, Abraham VJ, Huang CY, Morens D, Hoe NP, Follmann DA, Krause RM. Streptococcal group A, C and G pharyngitis in school children: a prospective cohort study in Southern India. Epidemiol Infect. 2018 May;146(7):848-853. doi: 10.1017/S095026881800064X. Epub 2018 Apr 4. PMID: 29616606; PMCID: PMC5957769. Link
Amritanand A, Paul P, Jasper S, Kumar SPV, Abraham V. Incorporating primary eye care into primary health care: Piloting a perceived visual disability questionnaire based model in rural southern India - An observational study. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2018 Jul;66(7):957-962. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_144_18. PMID: 29941739; PMCID: PMC6032735. Link
George H, Rakesh P, Krishna M, Alex R, Abraham VJ, George K, Prasad JH. Foot care knowledge and practices and the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy among people with diabetes attending a secondary care rural hospital in southern India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2013 Jan;2(1):27-32. doi: 10.4103/2249-4863.109938. PMID: 24479039; PMCID: PMC3894008. Link
Krishna M, Oommen AM, Paul G JS, Abraham VJ, George K. Prevalence of intermittent claudication in rural and urban Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India: a population-based study. Int Surg J 2018 Jul;5(7):2620-2622.
Rupa V, Abraham V, Singh C, Cherian VM, Abraham P. MCI guidelines on publications for academic Promotions. Natl Med J India. 2016 Mar-Apr;29(2):113. PMID: 27586224.
Jacob ME, Abraham VJ, Abraham S, Jacob KS. The effect of community based daycare on mental health and quality of life of elderly in rural south India: a community intervention study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2007 May;22(5):445-7. doi: 10.1002/gps.1706. PMID: 17096463. Link
Rob B, Vinod J A, Monica P, Balraj A, Job A, Norman G, Joseph A. Costs and health effects of screening and delivery of hearing aids in Tamil Nadu, India: an observational study. BMC Public Health. 2009 May 12;9:135. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-135. PMID: 19435490; PMCID: PMC2695455.
Stanley R, Kuruvilla A, Kumar S, Gayathri K, Mathews P, Abraham V, Rajkumar A, Jacob KS The Vellore screening instruments and strategies for the diagnosis of dementia in the community. Int Psychogeriatr. 2009 Jun;21(3):539-47. doi: 10.1017/S104161020900903X. Epub 2009 Apr 16. PMID: 19368758.
Haggar A, Nerlich A, Kumar R, Abraham VJ, Brahmadathan KN, Ray P, Dhanda V, Joshua JM, Mehra N, Bergmann R, Chhatwal GS, Norrby-Teglund A. Clinical and microbiologic characteristics of invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infections in north and south India. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 May;50(5):1626-31. doi: 10.1128/JCM.06697-11. Epub 2012 Feb 22. PMID: 22357508; PMCID: PMC3347136. Link
George H, Rakesh P, Krishna M, Alex R, Abraham VJ, George K, Prasad JH. Foot care knowledge and practices and the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy among people with diabetes attending a secondary care rural hospital in southern India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2013 Jan;2(1):27-32. doi: 10.4103/2249-4863.109938. PMID: 24479039; PMCID: PMC3894008. Link
Chourasia MK, Abraham VJ, John J. Household training vs. mass campaigns: a better method of health communication for preventing malaria. Trop Doct. 2014 Oct;44(4):196-200. doi: 10.1177/0049475514545201. Epub 2014 Aug 26. PMID: 25161177.
Thangadurai P, Gopalakrishnan R, Kuruvilla A, Jacob KS, Abraham VJ, Prasad J. Sexual dysfunction among men in secondary care in southern India: Nature, prevalence, clinical features and explanatory models. Natl Med J India. 2014 Jul-Aug;27(4):198-201. PMID: 25668163.
Athiyarath R, Shaktivel K, Abraham V, Singh D, Bondu JD, Chapla A, George B, Srivastava A, Edison ES. Association of genetic variants with response to iron supplements in pregnancy. Genes Nutr. 2015 Jul;10(4):474. doi: 10.1007/s12263-015-0474-2. Epub 2015 May 30. PMID: 26024779; PMCID: PMC4449341. Link
Oommen AM, Abraham VJ, George K, Jose VJ. Prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases in rural & urban Tamil Nadu. Indian J Med Res. 2016 Sep;144(3):460-471. doi: 10.4103/0971-5916.198668. PMID: 28139545; PMCID: PMC5320852.
Oommen AM, Abraham VJ, George K, Jose VJ. Prevalence of coronary heart disease in rural and urban Vellore: A repeat cross-sectional survey. Indian Heart J. 2016 Jul-Aug;68(4):473-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2015.11.015. Epub 2016 Jan 11. PMID: 27543468; PMCID: PMC4990735. Link
Oommen AM, Abraham VJ, Sathish T, Jose VJ, George K. Performance of the Achutha Menon Centre Diabetes Risk Score in Identifying Prevalent Diabetes in Tamil Nadu, India. Diabetes Metab J. 2017 Oct;41(5):386-392. doi: 10.4093/dmj.2017.41.5.386. PMID: 29086537; PMCID: PMC5663678. Link
Oommen AM, Nand K, Abraham VJ, George K, Jose VJ. Prevalence of statin use among high-risk patients in urban and rural Vellore, Tamil Nadu: A population-based cross-sectional study. Indian J Pharmacol. 2017 Mar-Apr;49(2):201-204. doi: 10.4103/ijp.IJP_747_16. PMID: 28706335; PMCID: PMC5497444. Link
Nand KY, Oommen AM, Chacko RK, Abraham VJ. Chronic periodontitis among diabetics and nondiabetics aged 35-65 years, in a rural block in Vellore, Tamil Nadu: A cross-sectional study. J Indian Soc Periodontol. 2017 Jul-Aug;21(4):309-314. doi: 10.4103/jisp.jisp_217_17. PMID: 29456306; PMCID: PMC5813346.
Athiyarath R, Shaktivel K, Abraham V, Singh D, Bondu JD, Chapla A, George B, Srivastava A, Edison ES. Association of genetic variants with response to iron supplements in pregnancy. Genes Nutr. 2015 Jul;10(4):474. doi: 10.1007/s12263-015-0474-2. Epub 2015 May 30. PMID: 26024779; PMCID: PMC4449341. Link
Mohan VR, Sarkar R, Abraham VJ, Balraj V, Naumova EN. Differential patterns, trends and hotspots of road traffic injuries on different road networks in Vellore district, southern India. Trop Med Int Health. 2015 Mar;20(3):293-303. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12436. Epub 2014 Dec 16. PMID: 25425088; PMCID: PMC4308433.
Prasad J, Abraham VJ, Minz S, Abraham S, Joseph A, Muliyil JP, George K, Jacob KS. Rates and factors associated with suicide in Kaniyambadi Block, Tamil Nadu, South India, 2000-2002. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2006 Jan;52(1):65-71. doi: 10.1177/0020764006061253. PMID: 16463596. Link
Jacob ME, Abraham S, Surya S, Minz S, Singh D, Abraham VJ, Prasad J, George K, Kuruvilla A, Jacob KS. A community health programme in rural Tamil Nadu, India: the need for gender justice for women. Reprod Health Matters. 2006 May;14(27):101-8. doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(06)27227-6. PMID: 16713884. Link
Emerson LP, Job A, Abraham V. Pilot study to evaluate hearing aid service delivery model and measure benefit using self-report outcome measures using community hearing workers in a developing country. ISRN Otolaryngol. 2013 Feb 6;2013:973401. doi: 10.1155/2013/973401. PMID: 23724277; PMCID: PMC3658393. Link
Emerson LP, Job A, Abraham V. A model for provision of ENT health care service at primary and secondary hospital level in a developing country. Biomed Res Int. 2013;2013:562643. doi: 10.1155/2013/562643. Epub 2013 Sep 3. PMID: 24078919; PMCID: PMC3776560.
Bhandari N, Rongsen-Chandola T, Bavdekar A, John J, Antony K, Taneja S, Goyal N, Kawade A, Kang G, Rathore SS, Juvekar S, Muliyil J, Arya A, Shaikh H, Abraham V, Vrati S, Proschan M, Kohberger R, Thiry G, Glass R, Greenberg HB, Curlin G, Mohan K, Harshavardhan GV, Prasad S, Rao TS, Boslego J, Bhan MK; India Rotavirus Vaccine Group. Efficacy of a monovalent human-bovine (116E) rotavirus vaccine in Indian infants: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2014 Jun 21;383(9935):2136-43. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62630-6. Epub 2014 Mar 12. PMID: 24629994; PMCID: PMC4532697.
Manjunath K, Cherian AG, Abraham V, Minz S, George K, Helan J. Trends of HIV prevalence in rural South India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2019 Feb;8(2):669-672. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_326_18. PMID: 30984692; PMCID: PMC6436254.
Dayanand D, Irudhayanathan I, Kundu D, Manesh A, Abraham V, Abhilash KP, Chacko B, Moorthy M, Samuel P, Peerawaranun P, Mukaka M, Joseph J, Sivaprakasam M, Varghese GM. Community seroprevalence and risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in different subpopulations in Vellore, India, and their implications for future prevention. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 28;116:138-146. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.12.356. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34971822; PMCID: PMC8712712.
Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-ThomasORCID Icon,Debbie Laliberte RudmanORCID Icon,Colleen McGrathORCID Icon,Debra CameronORCID Icon,Vinod Joseph Abraham,Jeshuran Gunaseelan &Samuel Prasanna Vinothkumar Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions. Journal of Occupational Science 2022: 29;(1) :97-114. doi:10.1080/14427591.2021.1899038
Shah B, Sharma M, Kumar R, Brahmadathan KN, Abraham VJ, Tandon R. Rheumatic heart disease: progress and challenges in India. Indian J Pediatr. 2013 Mar;80 Suppl 1:S77-86. doi: 10.1007/s12098-012-0853-2. Epub 2012 Sep 2. PMID: 22941214. Link
Barney AM, Danda S, Cherian AG, Aronraj J, Jayaprakash L, Abraham VJ, Christudass CS, Marcus TA. Association of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene polymorphisms with vitamin B12 deficiency and adverse perinatal outcomes among pregnant women of rural South India - a cross sectional longitudinal study. J Perinat Med. 2022 Jul 11;50(9):1230-1238. doi: 10.1515/jpm-2022-0119. PMID: 35822733.
Santhakumar S, Athiyarath R, Cherian AG, Abraham VJ, George B, Lipiński P, Edison ES. Impact of maternal iron deficiency anemia on fetal iron status and placental iron transporters in human pregnancy. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2023 Jan 27:102727. doi: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2023.102727. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36725474.
Sasikumar M, Oommen AM, Mohan VR, Gupta P, Rebekah G, Abraham VJ, George K. Recalibration of the Framingham risk score for predicting 10-year risk of cardiovascular events: A non-concurrent rural cohort study from Tamil Nadu. Indian Heart J. 2023 Jan 10:S0019-4832(23)00003-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2023.01.003. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36638887.
Santhakumar S, Athiyarath R, Cherian AG, Abraham VJ, George B, Lipiński P, Edison ES. Corrigendum to "Impact of maternal iron deficiency anemia on fetal iron status and placental iron transporters in human pregnancy" [Blood Cells Mol. Dis. 99 (2023) 102727]. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2023 Jul;101:102744. doi: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2023.102744. Epub 2023 Apr 23. Erratum for: Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2023 Mar;99:102727. PMID: 37095038. Link
Paul SS, Abraham VJ. How healthy is our geriatric population? a community-based cross-sectional study. J Family Med Prim Care. 2015 Apr-Jun;4(2):221-5. doi: 10.4103/2249-4863.154653. PMID: 25949971; PMCID: PMC4408705.
Sahai N, Arunachalam DK, Morris T, Copas A, Samuel P, Mohan VR, Abraham V, Selwyn JA, Kumar P, Rose W, Balaji V, Kang G, John J. An observer-blinded, cluster randomised trial of a typhoid conjugate vaccine in an urban South Indian cohort. Trials. 2023 Aug 3;24(1):492. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07555-y. PMID: 37537677; PMCID: PMC10399005. Link
Dayanand D, Irudhayanathan I, Kundu D, Manesh A, Abraham V, Abhilash KP, Chacko B, Moorthy M, Samuel P, Peerawaranun P, Mukaka M, Joseph J, Sivaprakasam M, Varghese GM. Community seroprevalence and risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in different subpopulations in Vellore, India, and their implications for future prevention. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 28;116:138-146. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.12.356. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34971822; PMCID: PMC8712712. Link
Cherian AG, Tryphena C, George K, Abraham VJ, Mohan VR, Prasad JH. Perinatal Mortality and its Causes in a Rural Block in Tamil Nadu, Southern India: A Community-Based Nonconcurrent Cohort Study. Indian J Community Med. 2022 Jan-Mar;47(1):12-17. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_80_21. Epub 2022 Mar 16. PMID: 35368477; PMCID: PMC8971883.
Stanley R, Kuruvilla A, Kumar S, Gayathri K, Mathews P, Abraham V, Rajkumar A, Jacob KS. The Vellore screening instruments and strategies for the diagnosis of dementia in the community. Int Psychogeriatr. 2009 Jun;21(3):539-47. doi: 10.1017/S104161020900903X. Epub 2009 Apr 16. PMID: 19368758.
Dasari A, Jacob PM, Jeyapaul S, Mathew AJ, Abraham VJ, Cherian AG Description and outcomes of patients with eclampsia and severe pre-eclampsia in a rural hospital in North-Eastern Bihar: A retrospective study. J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Oct;11(10):6096-6100. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_286_22. Epub 2022 Oct 31. PMID: 36618200; PMCID: PMC9810891.
Thomas Z, Mathew A, Jowil G, Sriram MK, Ranjan M, Dhinagar MJ, Abraham VJ. Quality of life among those with diabetes mellitus type II attending a secondary outpatient facility in South India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Nov;11(11):7204-7211. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_597_22. Epub 2022 Dec 16. PMID: 36992990; PMCID: PMC10041331.
Oommen AM, Abraham VJ, Sathish T, Jose VJ, George K. Performance of the Achutha Menon Centre Diabetes Risk Score in Identifying Prevalent Diabetes in Tamil Nadu, India. Diabetes Metab J. 2017 Oct;41(5):386-392. doi: 10.4093/dmj.2017.41.5.386. PMID: 29086537; PMCID: PMC5663678.
Amritanand A, Arthur A, Horo S, Obed P, Ramamurthy P, Rebekah G, Abraham VJ, Paul P. Comparative evaluation of diabetic retinopathy screening programs in regular ophthalmology clinics versus integrated diabetic clinics within rural health-care services. Oman J Ophthalmol. 2023 Jun 27;16(2):237-243. doi: 10.4103/ojo.ojo_195_22. PMID: 37602185; PMCID: PMC10433048.
Tephilla E, Elizabeth T, Shalini J, Vinod A. Orthostatic hypotension in the elderly: Prevalence and its management by simple isometric limb tensing exercises. J Family Med Prim Care. 2023 Nov;12(11):2661-2666. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1009_23. Epub 2023 Nov 21. PMID: 38186782; PMCID: PMC10771198.
