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High pressure processing is also called high hydrostatic pressure (HHP), ultra-high pressure processing, pascalization, or cold pasteurization (Daher, Le Gourrierec, & Pérez-Lamela, 2017). It has been widely explored and has indicated a major potential for various type of food processing applications in recent years (Vatankhah, Taherian, & Ramaswamy, 2018). It is a food processing technology which employs high pressure to solid or liquid foods to improve their safety and, in some cases, organoleptic properties and quality (Daher et al., 2017). HHP has been successfully proven to be used as an alternative to conventional heat treat

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are leading cause of morbidity and mortality and early identification of risk factors can help reduce mortality from them. The aim of this study was to determine the risk of CVD based on the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) among office workers, Yasuj City, Southwestern Iran. In this descriptive study, 180 workers aged 30-74 years old free of cardiovascular disease were recruited by single-stage stratified cluster sampling from the office of Yasuj City. Analysis showed that 163 workers (90.5%) were at low risk, 12 people (6.6%) at moderate risk, and five people (2.9%) at high 10-year risk of CVD. Mean of FRS and 10-year prediction of CVD risk was significantly higher among male workers than females. Subjects with normal body mass index than overweight and obese people had only significantly lower FRS (P <0.001), but 10-year risk of CVD did not differ among groups. Participants with Master of Science and above educational degree and subjects with normal waist-to-hip ratio had only significantly lower 10-year risk of CVD (P < 0.001). Nonsmokers, whose with systolic blood pressure <140 mm Hg, total cholesterol <240 mg/dL, normal total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), and abnormal HDL-C had significantly lower both FRS and 10-year CVD risk (P <0.01). This population-based study will health care policy makers develop targeted strategies to develop individual and community-based health care promotion programs.

Background: Chickpea is the third most significant food legume worldwide. While deeper rooting can increase water extraction, as it has been hypothesised for almost three decades. Therefore, understanding the regulation of leaf water losses in plant canopy, first when there is no water limitation and secondly when plants are progressively exposed to water deficit, are likely to be equally critical to roots for achieving high chickpea yield under terminal drought. Present study was carried out with an aim to evaluate the use of physiological traits such as canopy temperature depression (CTD) and chlorophyll content to determine drought tolerance of chickpea genotypes under varying environmental conditions.Methods: Trials were conducted in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 growing seasons at Gachsaran agricultural research station situated located in south-western of Iran. Chickpea genotypes were planted in two sets (each set had 3 replicates) by using a RCBD under two supplementary irrigation and rain-fed conditions. CTD measurements were made by infrared thermometer which was focused to 10:1 meter and at late morning to early afternoon cloudless periods (11:00 to 13:00 hours). Leaf chlorophyll content was measured at flowering and grain filling stages by using of a Minolta SPAD meter on 5-8 flag leaves per plot.Result: The CTD results in emergence of fifty percent of inflorescence stage and CHL in grain filling stage had high significant differences. The significant and positive correlation of DI, K2STI, Ys, GMP, STI, MP, Yp, K1STI showed that these indices were more effective in identifying high yielding genotypes under both conditions and result showed that CTD and CHL have played important roles to search physiological basis of grain yield of chickpea and CTD and CHL can successfully use as a selection criterions in breeding programs.