Association of sleep duration and sleep quality with body mass index among young adults
Background: It is evident from the research in recent years that short sleep has been found as a risk factor for obesity. However, we still need enough evidence in this field.
Preeti Gupta +4 more
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Central and Peripheral Obesity on Severity Knee Osteoarthritis
Background: Obesity can affect severity of knee osteoarthritis sufferers. Several studies have examined relationship between obesity and osteoarthritis, but no one has examined the different types of obesity on osteoarthritis, therefore, researchers ...
Refangga Lova Nusantara Efendi +2 more
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Novel Microfiber Sensor and Its Biosensing Application for Detection of hCG Based on a Singlemode-Tapered Hollow Core-Singlemode Fiber Structure [PDF]
A novel microfiber sensor is proposed and demonstrated based on a singlemode-tapered hollow core -singlemode (STHS) fiber structure. Experimentally a STHS with taper waist diameter of 26.5 μm has been fabricated and RI sensitivity of 816, 1601.86, and ...
Chen, Ling +11 more
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The Sex and Race Specific Relationship between Anthropometry and Body Fat Composition Determined from Computed Tomography: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. [PDF]
BackgroundFew studies have investigated the relationship of anthropometric measurements with computed tomography (CT) body fat composition, and even fewer determined if these relationships differ by sex and race.MethodsCT scans from 1,851 participants in
Allison, Matthew A +9 more
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Correlates of ultrasound diagnosed non alcoholic fatty liver disease in Indian adults with features of metabolic syndrome [PDF]
Because of its complex pathogenesis and scarcity of approved therapies, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is considered as one of the major challenge before mankind. Literature suggests that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease will replace Hepatitis C as a
Imran Nazir Salroo +3 more
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Widths of balls and free boundary minimal submanifolds
We observe that the kk-dimensional width of an nn-ball in a space form is given by the area of an equatorial kk-ball. We also discuss the relationship between widths and lower bounds for the area of a free boundary minimal submanifold in a space form ...
Zhu Jonathan J.
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Arthroscopic Treatment of Intraosseous Ganglion Cysts of the Carpus
ObjectiveTo investigate the application and the clinical efficacy of wrist arthroscopy in the treatment of carpal intraosseous ganglion cysts (IGCs).MethodsA retrospective case study method was adopted to analyze the clinical data of 28 patients with ...
Xiao-Feng Teng +3 more
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Growth hormone nadir during oral glucose load depends on waist circumference, gender and age: normative data in 231 healthy subjects. [PDF]
Objective (i) To analyse the predictors of GH suppression after standard glucose load (oGTT) in the healthy population and (ii) to establish the 97th percentile of GH nadir post-oGTT according to these variables.
AURIEMMA, RENATA SIMONA +7 more
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Alignment of resonant optical cavities [PDF]
When an input Gaussian beam is improperly aligned and mode-matched to a stable optical resonator, the electric field in the resonator couples to off-axis spatial eigenmodes.
Anderson, Dana Z.
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Correlation between body mass index and waist circumference in Nigerian adults: implication as indicators of health status [PDF]
Background. Anthropometric measures have been widely used for body weight classification in humans. Waist circumference has been advanced as a useful parameter for measuring adiposity. This study evaluated the correlation between body mass index (BMI)
Afolabi , Israel Sunmola +7 more
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