IMPORTANCE Understanding the burden and trends of reduced visual acuity (VA), a proxy measure for myopia, is essential to guide future health care and clinical management in China. OBJECTIVES To describe the secular trends from 1985 to 2010, correlate the prevalence of reduced VA among children and adolescents with population density, and project the burden of reduced VA in China in 2020 and ...

abstract the climate change was known to force local hydrology, through changes in the pattern of precipitation, temperature and the other hydrological variables. in this research, the impact of global warming on maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and evapotranspiration (wheat, corn, tomato and sugar beet) of kashafrood basin under two climate change scenarios (a2 and b2), and the o...

We study the dependence of the simulated ENSO on the mean simulated climate in the HadCM3 GCM and attempt to understand its relation with results from intermediate-complexity models (ICMs). Our aim is to bridge an existing gap between results from complex GCMs and from more readily understandable ICMs, and thereby to improve our process-based prediction skills of the potential sensitivity of ob...

Present world scenario globally, upto 2010, around 285 million people suffering from Type 2 diabetes making up about 90% of the cases. According to statistics, by 2030, this number is estimated to almost double. Diabetes mellitus occurs throughout the world, but is more common (especially Type 2) in the more developed countries. The greatest increase in prevalence is, however, expected to occur...

There are about 371 million people with diabetes worldwide, of whom 50% are undiagnosed and these numbers will increase to about 552 million by 2030 worldwide. In Europe, where there are 55 million such patients, diabetes is rapidly increasing. For example, in Spain the Di@betes Study, which used a sophisticated cluster-sampling technique, examined some 5 072 participants across the country sho...

Our studies of the secular rises in type 2 diabetes in the Pacific island of Nauru and Indian Ocean island of Mauritius have provided a barometer to predict the epidemic globally. There has been an almost 6-fold increase in the number of people with diabetes in the last few decades. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has reported that the number of people with diabetes will escalate fr...