objectives in this section, we studied dietary and other factors related to the effect of lifestyle in type 2 diabetes. these factors may affect the incidence of type 2 diabetes which could be corrected by lifestyle modifications. background prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly worldwide. recent data is reprehensive of increasing diabetes prevalence from 285 millions in 2010 (6.4...

A theft staged for 80 unsuspecting eyewitnesses was followed by a picture lineup that did or did not contain the thief. In an attempt to see if eyewitness confidence is tractable after the identification, half of the eyewitnesses who identified the thief (accurate witnesses) and half who identified an innocent suspect (inaccurate witnesses) were briefed by a "prosecutor" who suggested they rehe...

In reviewing the trends and influences of life-style in this country on health and disease in the latter half of 20th century, we focused our attention on 4 major habits of smoking, drinking, exercise and diets, and collected data on the Japanese to conduct a meta-analysis of their relationship with serum lipids and lipoproteins, which are the metabolic risk factors most closely related to athe...

  Background and Aim: One of the main strategies for keeping health is having healthy life style. Due to important role of adolescent health in community health promotion, this study aimed to determine health promoting life style in female adolescents of high schools and its associated factors in Mashhad, Iran. Methods: This cross- sectional study was conducted on 810 girls ranging in ages from...

Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus (PBCV-1) is the prototype of a family of large, icosahedral, plaque-forming, dsDNA viruses that replicate in certain unicellular, eukaryotic chlorella-like green algae. Its 330-kb genome contains approximately 373 protein-encoding genes and 11 tRNA genes. The predicted gene products of approximately 50% of these genes resemble proteins of known function, incl...

Wearable computers, embedded in clothing or seamlessly integrated in devices we carry with us, have a tremendous advantage to become the main gateway to personal health management. Current stateof-the-art devices allow to monitor basic physical or physiological parameters. Applications include e.g. improving performance in sports, early fall detection for elderly people, long-term heart monitor...

Sixty-five pediatric patients who received liver transplants between May 1981 and May 1984 were observed for as many as 5 years and examined for changes in life-style. Children were less frequently hospitalized, spent less time hospitalized, required fewer medications, and generally had excellent liver and renal function after hepatic transplantation as compared with their pretransplantation st...