JULY 2002 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | I n April 2000, a new dynamical seasonal prediction system was introduced at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP; the acronyms used in this paper are summarized in the appendix). The transition to the new system was hastened by a computer fire in September 1999 and subsequent changeover from a Cray C90 to an IBM-SP computer system....

AIMS The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is defined as a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors characterized by insulin resistance. We investigated the relationship of the MetS and its single components, defined by all six different criteria, with coronary heart disease (CHD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and all-cause mortality in a prospective population-based study. METHODS AND RESULTS The ...

Consistently with the CTB goal “to accelerate the transition of research and development into improved operational climate forecasts, products and applications”, the proposed collaborative research will lead to improving the computational performance for operational seasonal climate predictions. The proposed study will take an advantage of the NCEP CTB that “will provide an operational testing ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The identification of metabolic syndrome (MS) among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is of great importance, since those with MS carry a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors. This study evaluates suitable criteria with high efficiency in diagnosing MS and to identify the strongest predictors of MS in newly detected type 2 diabetes individuals. METHODS Newly detect...

objective: we determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in an urban population of jahrom, a city located in the south of iran. materials and methods: randomly selected subjects ≥30 years-old were studied using stratified sampling. target study sample was 892 (405 men and 487 women). metabolic syndrome was diagnosed using modified adult treatment panel guidelines when any three of the f...

BACKGROUND We aimed to explore the agreement among World Health Organization (WHO), European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance (EGIR), National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), American College of Endocrinology (ACE), and International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definitions of the metabolic syndrome. METHODS 1568 subjects (532 men, 1036 women, mean age 45 and standard deviation (S...