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B A Ochia Coronary heart disease (CHD) is undoubtedly increasing at an alarming rate throughout the developed world where it is now regarded as a number one killer. Even in developing countries the incidence of CHD is rising as people’s lifestyles and eating habits are being ‘westernised’. Serum cholesterol value has been incriminated, from various […]
Part One – His early life and career Bartholomew A Ochia The beginning of the sixteenth century ushered in an era of free thought, an epoch when people could express novel ideas and conceptions without fear of retribution from established authorities. The mental turpitude that characterised the Middle Ages was being brushed aside with alacrity. […]
Bartholomew A Ochia 109 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, AB15 5BD, Scotland We, as mortals, are subjected to biological ageing which is measured in terms of our previous lifestyles, and the effects of these lifestyles on the cellular processes which have occurred in our bodies. This biological ageing expresses itself in such changes as slow decline in […]
B A. Ochia In most developed parts of the world, life expectancy, defined as the number of years of life a person is expected to live from the time of his or her birth, has been increasing since the turn of the 20th century. These gains in life expectancy have been made possible, thanks to […]
