It is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Also know as insulin resistance syndrome.
Risks
Syndrome X can lead to hypertension, heart disease, infertility, diabetes and other metabolic-related diseases.
Causes and signs
Biggest causes are sedentary lifestyle and an increase in processed foods consumption.
Unsettled Bill
? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to quit India and hand over its HIV programme to the government
? Since 2003, the foundation has spent $260 million or Rs 1,300 crore on the AIDS programme in India
? There has been criticism that much of the money was wasted on high salaries, travel and extravagant coffee-table publications
Swine Flu Primer
What is H1N1? It's a virus which has gene segments from the swine, avian and human flu virus. Scientists have christened it influenza-a (h1n1) virus, commonly known as swine flu.
What's A Pandemic? An epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large region. On June 11, the who declared h1n1 a pandemic.
The endemic western UP region, epicentre of all polio outbreaks, remained free of P1 for a record one-and-a-half years till mid-2008
Bihar recorded only 3 new cases of the P1 virus in 2008
New injectible polio vaccine (IPV) to be used to eradicate the disease
