Gauri A Oka

Biographic Data

ID10007193
NAMEGauri A Oka
GIVEN NAMESGauri A
FAMILY NAMEOka
SIGNATUREOKA G A
AFFILIATIONSBharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University
ORCID0000-0003-3425-8512
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Nonspecific back pain in adolescents, its associated physical and psychological factors and urban–rural differences

    Open AccessGauri A Oka, Ashish S Ranade et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background: The school bag weight is a frequently implicated cause of back pain (BP) in children. Researchers from high-income countries have highlighted the contributions of physical and psychosocial factors, along with ergonomics and screen time exposure. However, almost all Indian studies on BP in children have focused on the school bag weight only, without clinical examination. Our objective was to estimate the prevalence of nonspecific BP an…

  • Sars-CoV-2 breakthrough infections during the second wave of Covid-19 at Pune, India

    Open AccessPrakash Doke, Prakash P Doke et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Breakthrough infections following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination remain the global concern. The current study was conducted during the second wave of COVID-19 (1st March−7th July 2021) in Pune, India, at two tertiary care hospitals. Of the 6,159 patients diagnosed as COVID-19, 372/2,210 (16.8%) were breakthrough infections. Of these, 81.1 and 18.8% received one or two doses of Covishield or Covaxin, respectively. Of note, 30.7% patients were with comorbi…