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Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the single most frequent cause of death worldwide. More than seven million people die from CAD every year, accounting for 12.8% of all deaths. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a potentially life-threatening manifestation of CAD where time is crucial in initial management. Patients with ACS are divided into two groups to facilitate evaluation and management namely acute myocardial infarction (MI) with ST segment elevation (STEMI) on their presenting electrocardiogram(ECG) and those with non ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) or non ST segment elevation myocardial infarct ion (NSTEMI).The incidence of NSTEMI is rising due to the increasing burden of obesity , chronic kidney disease and increasing detection of myocardial necrosis by raised hsTrop I (high sensitive Troponin I). We aimed to explore the utility of biomarker like serum NT-pro BNP level with the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) risk calculationin patients presenting with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) .A total no 33 patients were included in this study. From the comparison of GRACE SCORE and serum NT-proBNP, the difference in 30 day mortality in patients with NSTE-ACS it had been observed that based on optimal cut off from ROC curve ,the area under the curve(AUC) for GRACE score and serum NT-proBNPwere 99 vs 89.7 with a sensitivity and specicity of 98% vs 92.86%, 94.74% vs 73.68% respectively.

This article 'Panindra: a new deepwater rice for Assam, India' appeared in the International Rice Research Notes series, created by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) to expedite communication among scientists concerned with the development of improved technology for rice and rice-based systems. The series is a mechanism to help scientists keep each other informed of current rice research findings. The concise scientific notes are meant to encourage rice scientists to communicate with one another to obtain details on the research reported.