BACKGROUND Whether measures of insulin resistance provide incremental information regarding atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease beyond current National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel III metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) criteria or inflammatory markers is uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined the association of insulin resistance and MetSyn with coronary artery ...

This study focused on the Upper Manyame sub-catchment which covers an area of approximately 3 786 km2 and forms part catchment, one seven catchments Zimbabwe. catchment has its source in Marondera town drains into Zambezi River downstream Kariba Dam upstream Cahora Bassa Dam, northern country. assessed potential climate change impacts streamflow reservoir inflows sub-catchment. Hydrologic simul...

Ensemble initial perturbations around Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) produced by ECMWF, NCEP, and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) ensembles are compared using The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) data, and the dynamical mechanisms of perturbation growth associated with the tropical cyclone (TC) motion are investigated for ...

INTRODUCTION The indiscriminate use of different diagnostic criteria for the definition of dyslipidemia may result in inaccurate interpretations, which could compromise diagnosis and therefore the therapeutic and prophylactic actions to be taken. OBJECTIVE To analyze possible differences in prevalence rates of dyslipidemia in adolescents based on three diagnostic definitions. METHODS A cros...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Earth System Dynamics (ESD). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ESD if available. Abstract The role of extra-tropical vegetation on the large-scale tropical circulation is examined in the version 3 Hadley Centre Climate Model (HadCM3). Alternative representations of present day vegetation from observations and a dynami...

Global warming has drawn great attention in recent years because of its large impact on many aspects of the environment and human activities in buildings. One area directly affected by climate change is the energy consumption for heating and cooling. To quantify the impact, this study used the HadCM3 Global Circulation Model (GCM) to generate weather data for future typical meteorological years...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Limited information is available on the role of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) to predict stroke. We investigated the relationship of the MetS and its single components, defined by 6 different criteria, with stroke in a prospective population-based study. METHODS The MetS was defined according to the World Health Organization, the European Group for the Study of Insulin ...

OBJECTIVE The oral glucose tolerance test identifies high-risk subjects for diabetes, but it is costly and inconvenient. To find better predictors of type 2 diabetes, we evaluated two different definitions of the metabolic syndrome because insulin resistance, which is commonly associated with this clustering of metabolic factors, frequently precedes the onset of type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESI...

[1] This study shows that the SST variations in the July– August–September (JAS) peak season of the Atlantic Warm Pool (AWP) are modulated by the air-sea fluxes. This feature is captured in the correlations between the rainfall and SST, and rainfall and SST tendency in the multi-decadal integration of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System (CFS). Likewi...