OBJECTIVE We assessed the mediating effects of metabolic components on the relationship between fruit or vegetable intake and cardiovascular disease (CVD). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING This study was conducted using data from the 2013-2015 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is a national representative cross-sectional survey to assess health and nutritio...

Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is often present in old age and may be associated with microstructural pathology of white matter (WM) and cognitive dysfunction. The current review investigated the relationship between CVD, cognitive status and WM integrity as assessed by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Methods: DTI studies were searched on ISI and Pubmed databases from 2002 to 2012. Results: Stud...

A novel method is presented for growth of polycrystalline silicon films on amorphous substrates at temperatures of 540-575 “C. Grain nucleation and grain growth are performed in two steps, using Si nanocrystals as nuclei (“sceds’“,L The nanocrystal seeds are produced by excimer laser photolysis of disilane in a room temperature flow cell. Film (grain) growth occurs epitaxially on the seeds in a...

OBJECTIVE Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, but the association between obesity and specific causes of CVD mortality is still under investigation. METHOD We prospectively examined body-mass index (BMI) in relation to CVD-specific causes of death in approximately 86,000 US men and women in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Tri...

Carbon Nanotubes have exceptional mechanical and electrical properties. Various methods have been thoroughly investigated for the growth of CNTs. The best and the most commonly used method is Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD). The various techniques include Reaction Chamber heating, Plasma Enhanced CVD, Hot filament CVD, Microwave CVD. The structural uniformity of carbon nanotubes produced by pl...

While chemical vapor deposition (CVD) promises a scalable method to produce large-area graphene, CVD-grown graphene has heretofore exhibited inferior electronic properties in comparison with exfoliated samples. Here we test the electrical transport properties of CVD-grown graphene in which two important sources of disorder, namely grain boundaries and processing-induced contamination, are subst...

Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) has been recognized as a separate histological classification of interstitial lung disease. Similar features are found not only in idiopathic NSIP, but also in NSIP associated with collagen vascular disorder (CVD-NSIP). We examined the clinical symptoms, laboratory findings, and prognosis of 13 cases of idiopathic NSIP and 11 cases of CVD-NSIP. Immunohi...

BACKGROUND Despite greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in patients with a history of incarceration, little is known about how prisons manage CVD risk factors (CVD-RF) to mitigate this risk. METHODS We conducted in-depth interviews with individuals with CVD-RF who had been recently released from prison (n = 26). These individuals were recruited through community flyers and a...

The extraordinary properties demonstrated for graphene and graphene-related materials can be fully exploited when a large-scale fabrication procedure is made available. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene on Cu and Ni substrates is one of the most promising procedures to synthesize large-area and good quality graphene films. Parallel to the fabrication process, a large-scale quality mon...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to establish sources and patterns of antioxidant, polyphenol and flavonoid intakes in men and women with cardiovascular disease (CVD). METHODS The subjects with CVD and healthy controls (HC) were participants of the Polish National Multicenter Health Survey (WOBASZ). Food intakes were measured with the 1-day 24-hour recall method. A self-developed data...