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Four-years change of BMI and waist circumference are associated with metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and elderly Chinese

Scientific Reports
The purpose of the study was to determine whether changes in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in middle-aged and elderly Chinese are associated with metabolic syndrome.
Xiaoyun Zhang, Ying Wang, Yuqing Li, Jiao Gui, Yujin Mei, Xue Yang, Haiyang Liu, Lei-Lei Guo, Jinlong Li, Yunxiao Lei, Xiaoping Li, Lujun Sun, Liu Yang, Ting Yuan, Congzhi Wang, Dongmei Zhang, Jing Li, Mingming Liu, Ying Hua, Lin Zhang   +19 more
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On the Impact of Spatial Momentum

Demographic Research, 2002
Momentum, the population growth that occurs after a fall in fertility to replacement level, has long been appreciated as a factor in the future population growth of many countries. This paper argues that another aspect of growing populations - their high
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GENETIC SEGREGATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL 3697>GA MUTATION IN PGD CYCLES

Fertility and Sterility, 2021
Dongmei Ji, Xinyuan Li, Kai Zong, Weiwei Zou, Xiaohong Deng, Yunxia Cao, Yunxia Cao   +6 more
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Pioneer settlement of U.S. immigrants: Characteristics of pioneer migrants and places

Demographic Research, 2016
Background: Research on immigrant dispersion to new U.S. destinations has not addressed the question of how place and individual characteristics influence pioneer settlement.
Douglas Gurak, Mary M. Kritz
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Adapting chain referral methods to sample new migrants: Possibilities and limitations

Demographic Research, 2015
Background: Demographic research on migration requires representative samples of migrant populations. Yet recent immigrants, who are particularly informative about current migrant flows, are difficult to capture even in specialist surveys.
Lucinda Platt, Renee Luthra, Tom Frere-Smith   +2 more
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Fluid Responsiveness Is Associated with Successful Weaning after Liver Transplant Surgery

Journal of Personalized Medicine
A positive fluid balance may evolve to fluid overload and associate with organ dysfunctions, weaning difficulties, and increased mortality in ICU patients.
R. Castro, P. Born, Felipe Muñoz, Camila Guzmán, E. Kattan, Glenn Hernández, J. Bakker   +6 more
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Characteristics of urban regions and all-cause mortality in working-age population: Effects of social environment and interactions with individual unemployment

Demographic Research, 2007
Using Finnish register data on individuals linked to information on urban regions, this study aimed to estimate the effects of some regional characteristics on all-cause mortality among working-age population in 1995-2001, and to find out whether these ...
Tapani Valkonen, Jenni Blomgren
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Deciphering optimal molecular determinants of non-hemolytic, cell-penetrating antimicrobial peptides through bioinformatics and Random Forest

Briefings in Bioinformatics
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising molecules for combating resistant pathogens, offering several advantages like broad-spectrum effectiveness and multi-targeted action. While most AMPs exhibit membranolytic activity similar to hemolytic peptides
Ashok Kumar, Sonia Chadha, Mradul Sharma, Mukesh Kumar   +3 more
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Increasing excess mortality among non-married elderly people in developed countries

Demographic Research, 2004
This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway ...
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Association of Divorce with Socio-Demographic Covariates in China, 1955-1985

Demographic Research, 2002
Based on a unique data set on the event history of marriage and divorce collected in the In-Depth Fertility Surveys conducted in Shanghai, Shaanxi, and Hebei in 1985 and a multivariate hazards model, this paper investigates the association between ...
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