The Sindhis are a Hindu subgroup identified by their place of origin and their written spoken language. These are the people who were originally inhabitants of the Province of Sind, which formed a part of the large Bombay Presidency in Undivided India before 1947. The Sindhi Hindus migrated en masse to India after partition. An attempt has been made here to examine the differences found in the ...

BACKGROUND Uncontrolled hypertension (HT) is an established risk factor for the development of vascular diseases. Prevalence varies in different communities and no such study has been conducted in the Parsi community living in Bombay, India. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence, awareness, compliance to medication and control of HT in this community. METHOD We used a ...

kefiran is an exogenous microbial metabolite produced mainly by bacteria and fungi during growth. the present study investigated the effects of the addition of 3% kefiran and 3% xanthan on the extensographic characteristics of wheat dough and the shelf life of raised bread. kefir grain was cultivated in a shaking incubator and kefiran extraction was carried using a centrifugal refrigerator. the...

the aim of this research was to evaluate the average concentrations of micronutrients including: copper (cu), iron (fe), manganese (mn) and zinc (zn) in the shoots of different cultivars of wheat in stem elongation stage in a soil contaminated with cadmium (cd). the treatments consisted of three levels of cd (0 (as control, cd0), 40 (cd40) and 80 (cd80) mg cd/kg soil) and fourteen different cul...

A door-to-door survey of 14,010 Parsis living in colonies in Bombay, India, screened people for possible neurologic diseases. High school graduates, social workers, and a medical student administered a questionnaire that had been shown in a pilot study to have a sensitivity of 100% for identifying persons with stroke. Neurologists used defined diagnostic criteria to evaluate those who were posi...