This review describes the non-nutritive biologically active components in grain legumes and discusses about the bioactivity of phenols, isoflavones, phytosterols, phytic acid, saponins, tannins, protease inhibitors and bioactive complex carbohydrates in different pulse grains. These bioactive components have wide ranging biological activities and consequently many different targets and mechanis...

Despite intergovernmental calls for greater policy coherence to tackle rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there has been a striking lack of coherence internationally and nationally between trade and health sectors. In this commentary, I explore the arguments by Lenucha and Thow in relation to barriers for greater coherence for NCDs, apply them to regional trade ag...

This article evaluates the overall current disease burden of North Korea through the recent databases of international organizations. It is notable that North Korea as a nation is exhibiting a relatively low burden from deaths and that there is greater burden from deaths caused by non-communicable diseases than from those caused by communicable diseases and malnutrition. However, the absolute m...

One of the most important problems in the current situation of the world is to deal with the consequences of diseases. Human beings have always been involved with the burdens, morbidity, mortality and disabilities due to contagious and non-communicable diseases. Infectious diseases slaughtered people for centuries. However, the majority of them were out powered by the human knowledge. Although ...

Maternal diabetes predisposes the growing foetus to non-communicable disease risk later in life. Studies show an increased risk of adiposity/obesity, type-2 diabetes and higher blood pressure in offspring of diabetic mothers. Altered metabolic and neuroendocrine functions, and epigenetic modification of genes involved in these functions are some of the mechanisms proposed for the offspring dise...

R. H. JONES, T. A. NEVIN, W. J. GUEST, AND L. C. LOGAN From the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, and the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, Venereal Disease Program, National Communicable Disease Center, Bureau of Disease Prevention and Environmental Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, an...

Non communicable diseases are the leading cause of death and disability whole over world. The main non include cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Diabetes Chronic respiratory diseases. To prevent control non-communicable it very essential to know epidemiology disease. address any health problem is size population. Epidemiology helps find out frequency, distribution determinants kills around 41 mil...

BACKGROUND Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are currently experiencing one of the most rapid epidemiological transitions characterized by increasing urbanization and changing lifestyle factors. This has resulted in an increase in the incidence of non-communicable diseases, especially cardiovascular disease (CVD). This double burden of communicable and chronic non-communicable diseases has lo...

Alcohol, with its impact on both communicable and non-communicable diseases, is considered as the third global public health priority. Alcohol ranked third among causes of ill health and premature death, and ranked second in terms of cost among all the substances of abuse, after tobacco, even though nearly half the world’s population drinks alcohol. In most countries, where alcohol is considere...