i agree entirely with nir eyal’s perspective that denying treatment to obese patients is morally wrong. however, the reasons for this belief differ in some ways from eyal’s analysis. in this commentary, i will try to explain the similarities and differences in our perspectives. my primary claim is that the denial of treatment to obese patients is wrong principally because (i) it eschews a whole...

I agree entirely with Nir Eyal’s perspective that denying treatment to obese patients is morally wrong. However, the reasons for this belief differ in some ways from Eyal’s analysis. In this commentary, I will try to explain the similarities and differences in our perspectives. My primary claim is that the denial of treatment to obese patients is wrong principally because (i) it eschews a whole...

abstract background and aims: diabetes is a major killing recognized as a silent epidemic globally problem. india has the highest number of diabetes cases in the world causing huge morbidity and economic losses to the country. there were 66.8 million adults suffering from with diabetes in india in 2014, which is expected to rise by 63% to 109 million by 2035. diabetes led to at least usd 612 bi...

a pedigree file of 382831 holstein cows and bulls, collected from herds registered by animal breeding center of iran during 1967 to 1999, was used to calculate the inbreeding coefficient. the mean inbreeding coefficient for the whole population (male and female), on a base year of 1946, was 0.184%. the means for cows (94 percent of the whole population) and bulls (6 percent of the whole populat...

a total of 1611 serum samples collected from ten ethnically distinct populations of iran (turks and kurds of rezaieh, lurs, zabolis, baluchis, turks and kurds of shirvan, zoroastrians, tehranis and kermanis) were examined for haptoglobin, transrferrin and the third component of complement systems. the gene frequencies obtained of these samples were combined with those of the previous studies of...