BACKGROUND Acute and chronic coronary heart disease (CHD) pose different burdens on health-care services and require different prevention and treatment strategies. Trends in acute and chronic CHD event rates can guide service implementation. This study evaluated changes in acute and chronic CHD event rates in metropolitan and regional/remote Victoria. METHODS Victorian hospital admitted episo...

The relation of serum TG concentrations and risk for CHD has been an issue of great interest and controversy. Unlike analyses with LDL-C and HDL-C, for which very strong and consistent relations with CHD risk have been demonstrated in observational and interventional studies, those with TG are ambiguous. Thus, TG represents a clinical conundrum: should it be measured, what does it mean, and sho...

choline oxidase (chox) was chosen as a model enzyme for evaluating the performance of cnts’ functional groups for development of enzyme electrodes. cnts were functionalized with carboxylic acid, amine or amide groups. carboxylic acid, amine and amide functionalized cnts were obtained by acid treatment, ethylenediamine or tetraethylenepentamine chemically modification and ammonia plasma treatmen...

Regularly positioned nucleosomes are a common feature of 5' ends of most eukaryotic genes. A series of three studies, Shim et al (2012) and Pointner et al (2012) in this issue of The EMBO Journal and Hennig et al (2012) in EMBO Reports, now show that in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe this intragenic nucleosome positioning mostly requires two ATP-dependent remodellers of the CHD fam...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the association of serum ferritin with CHD risk using the Framingham Heart Study's 10-year risk algorithm. DESIGN Ordinal logistic regression modelling was used to interpret risk. Proportional odds modelling assessed four divisions of ranked CHD risk (4, high; 3, increased; 2, slight; 1, minimal), separately by sex. SETTING Baltimore, MD, USA. SUBJECTS...

to this problem for some species (e.g. Griffiths and Holland 1990, Quinn et al. 1990, Rabenold et al. 1991, Dvorak et al. 1992, Longmire et al. 1993, Ogawa et al. 1997), but their use requires considerable xpertise, and often their taxonomic range is limited. More recently, PCR-based approaches that are technically simpler and that have broad taxonomic utility have been developed (Ogawa et al. ...

The acute administration of ethanol mobilizes a considerable amount of Mg2+ from perfused rat livers and isolated hepatocytes in a dose-dependent fashion in the absence of release of cellular K+ or lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the extracellular medium. Mg2+extrusion becomes detectable within 2 min and reaches the maximum within 8 min after ethanol addition, declining toward the basal value th...

Background: Many in vitro studies suggested that choline incorporation into many types of tumors is related to cell proliferation. Whether in vivo choline incorporation is related also to cell proliferation or not was my question. Therefore, the aim of this pilot study was to investigate the relationship of in vivo [methyl- 14C]-choline incorporation and in vivo [methyl-3H]- thymidine incorpora...