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No simple answers! We need to include healthy living in school curriculum; have education on these issues to college goers; work with industry to improve shift work situations; have campaigns on smoking and the rampant alcohol use; and importantly redefine "healthy food"

Added to this is our genetic predilection. South Asians are smaller built, with less lean body mass for the same weight as compared to Caucasians and Blacks. We also have much higher rates of diabetes and poor lipid profiles. This does not help.

Added to this is the poor exercise regimen in most people's lives, which serves to accelerate the process. Exercise reduces fat tissue, which speeds up inflammation. To be sure, exercise cannot prevent the damage, but could mitigate it.

Sleep has a bidirectional relationship. Inflammation reduces sleep and sleep disturbances worsen inflammation and aging. Today's shift based work only worsens this, and most of the work force has tremendous sleep deficit

Inflammaging seems to be accelerated by ultra processed foods, which are unfortunately increasingly being consumed, and often under the mistaken idea of being healthy(!). Many "healthy options" like juice drinks today are actually very bad for us.

The concept of inflammaging has been gaining ground, and explains a lot of what's being seen. Inflammation and aging are both at the core of many destructive processes in the body, and this is accelerated with today's lifestyle. If this is true, we are in for a lot worse!

HBV HCV and HIV in solid organ transplant. Packed hall at Ahmedabad.

Pro con debate on pre transplant colonization assessment in solid organ transplant.

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4/4 Do not ask for more time. There is a reason for exams being time bound, and your lack of preparation and punctuality is hardly the examiner's fault. Requesting for more time may the run the risk of it being granted- 6 months, for the next attempt.
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