Buddhist Priests and Doshuku

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

Businessmen, Priests and Parishes

Priests or engineers?

On 5 and 6 May the BMJ held a conference in Oxford to discuss the next 30 years. By invitation, five of the participants prepared working papers, which were circulated beforehand; we print these below, together with an edited version of the discussion. A sixth paper, also prepared for the conference by Professor Rudolf Klein, appears on p 73. The sessions were chaired by Professor Klein and mem...

Statistical Reanalysis of Jewish Priests’ and Non- Priests’ Haplotypes Using Exact Methods

Researchers in an article appearing in Nature used asymptotic (i.e., large sample) chi-square tests in analyzing haplotypes of Y chromosomes using the polymerase chain reaction applied to genomic DNA from male Israeli, North American, and British Jews. The use of classical methods for analyzing extremely sparse contingency tables is frequently done, but with the advent of statistical software c...

A vegetarian diet does not protect against nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): A cross-sectional study between Buddhist priests and the general population.

BACKGROUND/AIMS There is limited data that supports a role for a vegetarian diet in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between vegetarian diets and NAFLD, considering metabolic syndrome and obesity. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional, retrospective study comparing the prevalence of NAFLD of 615 Buddhist priests and age-...