SUMMARY Due to the lack of information on diabetes prevalence and its precipitating factors and in view of the grave consequences of the disease, this study was carried out in 1993 to determine diabetes and IGT in Islamshahr, 30 km to the southwest of Tehran. Out of 244000 population in the district 2033 subjects over 30 years of age were selected hy stepwise randomized sampling. The subjects ...

SUMMARY Due to the importance of coronary heart diseases in today's world and in view of the fact that hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and obesity are regarded as the main risk factors in these diseases and also considering the paucity of epidemiologic surveys in our society, this study was carried out in Islamshahr 30 Km to the southwest of Tehran. Out of 244000 population of the area, 2033 per...

We suggest a strategy for incremental construction of deep parsing grammars from Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT). IGT is a format of representation where standard linguistics and NLP in principle meet, since they are a data-type which is often available for digitally ‘less resourced languages’ (‘LRL’). The IGT database is TypeCraft (Beermann and Mihaylov 2009, www.typecraft.org), and the grammar...

Abstract The skin of vertebrates is the outermost organ body and serves as first line defense against external aggressions. In contrast to mammalian skin, that teleost fish lacks keratinization has evolved operate a mucosal surface containing skin-associated lymphoid tissue (SALT). Thus far, IgT representing prevalent Ig in SALT have only been reported upon infection with parasite. However, ver...

OBJECTIVE The study investigated the effect of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) on glucose homeostasis and inflammatory parameters in patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We prospectively studied the insulin sensitivity index (ISI) and homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in 13 obese males with IGT and in 13 matched control subjec...