During recent years the incidence of obesity has increased significantly, and in some instances rapidly, in many resource-rich countries. Paralleling this increase has been an increase in the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma. It has been estimated that as many as 90% of obese adults will develop the metabolic syndrome. The worldwide incidence of this syndrome in adults at this time ranges ...

Face recognition with age variation is a challenging task for researchers. In this research paper a new face database is proposed. The proposed name of this database is Indian Face Age Database (IFAD). It consists of images of Indian celebrities. To enhance the unconstrained age invariant face recognition research, a more challenging Indian Face Age Database (IFAD) is proposed and introduced th...

BACKGROUND High prevalence rates for rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthopathies, and systemic lupus erythematosus have been described in American Indian and Alaskan Native adults. The impact of these diseases on American Indian children has not been investigated. METHODS We used International Classification of Diseases-9 (ICD-9) codes to search two Indian Health Service (IHS) patient registra...

OBJECTIVE Because declines in acute insulin response (AIR) and insulin action (M) predict development of type 2 diabetes, we sought to determine childhood factors that predict insulin action and AIR using longitudinal data from young Pima Indian adults with normal glucose regulation. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Predictors of adult M, measured by the euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp, and AIR,...

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the employment is a requisite if one wants to have a normal life, decent meals and a place to stay; it socializes the people and gives them some survival and esteem feeling in the society. besides that employment boosts personal well fear, morale integrity and self confidence. in india economy is diverse where employees are employed in agriculture, handicraft, a wide range of modern industries,...

of childhood morbidity and mortality in India. Although the true burden of measles is difficult to quantify, only a small proportion of cases seek treatment in the formal health sector, infection with measles virus is ubiquitous throughout the country. A recent review of Indian published literature shows the median case fatality ratio (CFR) of measles to be 1.63% (range: 0%-30.0%) [1]. Deaths f...

Severe Early Childhood Caries (S-ECC) is a terribly aggressive and devastating disease that is all too common in lower socio-economic children, but none more so that what is encountered in American Indian Tribes. Nationwide, approximately 27% of 2-5 year olds have decay while 62% percent of American Indian/Alaska Native children in the same age group have a history of decay (IHS 2010, NHANES 19...