Impact of maternal metabolic abnormalities in pregnancy on human milk and subsequent infant metabolic development: methodology and design

Abstract Background Childhood obesity is on the rise and is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes later in life.Recent evidence indicates that abnormalities that increase risk for diabetes may be initiated early in infancy.Since the offspring of women with diabetes have an increased long-term risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes, the impact of ma

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New Silk Road Initiative and Pak-China Relations

[For last couple of decades, voices have been heard for a revival of the ancient Silk Road with an aim of enhanced overland commercial activity.During last few years, the New Silk Road Initiative (NSRI) has extensively been promoted by the US, and its allies.A closer look at NSRI and programs related to it so far makes one believe that what the pro

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Chinese and Indian Public Pension Systems and Universal Old-age Security in Times of Rapid Demographic Changes

India and China have become countries of rapid economic growth and at the same time of socio-economic contrast.The classical old-age security arrangement has focused mainly Corn Flour on the formal sector and excluded a majority of the population working in the informal sector.Consequently, along the road of economic growth, increasing living stand

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