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Relationship between peri-coronary inflammation and coronary vascular function in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
BackgroundIn this study, we aim to investigate the relationship between the attenuation of peri-coronary adipose tissue (PCAT) in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) and the assessment of coronary vascular functions using coronary flow ...
Mengyu Chen, Mengyu Chen, Mengyu Chen, Bing Liu, Bing Liu, Bing Liu, Xu Li, Xu Li, Xu Li, Dong Li, Lijuan Fan, Lijuan Fan, Lijuan Fan   +12 more
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Intramuscular and Intermuscular Abdominal Fat Infiltration in COPD: A Propensity Score Matched Study

International Journal of COPD, 2021
Young-Jee Jeon,1,* Sangyoung Han,2,* Gyung-Min Park,2 Tae Young Lee,3 Soon Eun Park,4 Hyunho Lee,4 Byung Ju Kang2 1Department of Family Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Republic of Korea ...
Jeon YJ, Han S, Park GM, Lee TY, Park SE, Lee H, Kang BJ   +6 more
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The anti-atherogenic effects of thiazolidinediones [PDF]

, 2007
The thiazolidinediones (TZDs) rosiglitazone (ROS) and pioglitazone (PIO) are insulin-sensitising agents widely used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Thiazolidinediones significantly improve glycaemic control in diabetics by reduced
Honisett, Suzy, Komesaroff, Paul A, Stojanovska, Lily   +2 more
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Predicting of hepatic steatosis in living liver donor via CT liver attenuation index (LAI) and fibroscan controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) correlation with biopsy result

The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Background The most prevalent persistent parenchymatous liver alterations in healthy individuals are thought to be hepatic steatosis. The liver biopsy is the most crucial procedure for the identification and measurement of hepatic steatosis.
Somaia Mohammed Ali Mahfouz, Fatma Salah eldin Mohamed, Nivine Abdel Moneium Chalabi, Hazem Ibrahim Abdel-Rahman   +3 more
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Role of peripheral quantitative computed tomography in identifying disuse osteoporosis in paraplegia [PDF]

, 2009
Objective: Disuse osteoporosis is a major long-term health consequence of spinal cord injury (SCI) that still needs to be addressed. Its management in SCI should begin with accurate diagnosis, followed by targeted treatments in the most vulnerable ...
A Frotzler, A Frotzler, AA Freehafer, Alan N. McLean, B Chen, David B. Allan, ED Bruin de, HH Bolotin, HM Frost, J Rittweger, JL Ferretti, L Giangregorio, L Maimoun, M Bélanger, P Eser, P Eser, P Eser, P Frey-Rindova, P Vestergaard, S Dudley-Javoroski, S-D Jiang, Sylvie Coupaud, T Mohr   +22 more
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Weight Gain: Evidence from a Natural Experiment [PDF]

, 2011
Objectives: This study investigated the importance of environmental influences in explaining weight gain and related behaviors among freshman college students.
Kapinos, Kandice A, Yakusheva, Olga
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Usefulness of circuit training at home for improving bone mass and muscle mass while losing fat mass in undergraduate female students

Lipids in Health and Disease, 2018
Background The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not circuit training at home affects the calcaneus quantitative ultrasound status as well as other indices of body composition among undergraduate female students.
Yoko Takahata
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Four-year stability of anthropometric and cardio-metabolic parameters in a prospective cohort of older adults [PDF]

, 2015
Aim: To examine the medium-term stability of anthropometric and cardio-metabolic parameters in the general population. Materials & methods: Participants were 5160 men and women from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (age ≥50 years) assessed in ...
Beeken, RJ, Gunter, MJ, Jackson, SE, Steptoe, A, van Jaarsveld, CH, Wardle, J   +5 more
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Thyroxine-binding globulin: investigation of microheterogeneity [PDF]

, 1981
Preparations of T4-binding globulin (TBG) from human serum was performed using only two affinity chromatography steps. Purity of the protein was demonstrated by a single band in overloaded disc and sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis, equimolar ...
Gärtner, Roland, Henze, R., Horn, K., Pickardt, C. R., Scriba, Peter Christian   +4 more
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Allometric fat mass index and alanine aminotransferase attenuate the associations of platelet parameters with lung cancer risk

Scientific Reports
We have previously shown that body mass index attenuates a positive association of platelet count (PLT) and inverse of mean platelet volume (MPV) with lung cancer risk in men. It is unclear whether fat mass, lean mass, or liver function tests (LFTs) show
Sofia Christakoudi, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Marc J. Gunter, Elio Riboli   +3 more
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