This school based cross sectional study was done to estimate the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension among apparently healthy school children in urban and rural Mysore. Prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension was 2.9% and 2.8% in urban children and 2.8% and 2% in rural children with no statistically significant difference between them.

Background: Although the prevalence of both type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide, DM rising more rapidly, because sedentary lifestyle, obesity increased life expectancy. Objectives: To study correlation between fasting postprandial triglyceride levels Carotid artery intimal medial thickness (CIMT) in Type Diabetic Patients. Material Methods: This cross sectional observation wa...

Nutrition transition is said to be one of the major causes of rising incidences of non-communicable diseases in Indian population. One of the major changes observed in dietary patterns is consumption of processed foods and eating away from home. This has impacted the nutritional status of populations across many regions. The objective of the study was to map out the consumption trends of proces...

To cater to the demands of increasing population and support economy which has been projected grow, agriculture in India will have focus more on measures such as optimum usage land other limited resources, appropriate implementation machinery manpower, increased productivity, production high-quality products exploring adopting integrated farming systems controlled-environment (CEA). Other signi...

In this issue of Neuron, Mysore and Knudsen (2012) describe a simple, anatomically supported circuit that can categorize stimuli into "strongest" and "others," regardless of their absolute strength. Such flexible categorization cannot be achieved by lateral inhibition alone but also requires that the inhibitory neurons reciprocally inhibit each other.