Through the kindness of Dr. S. 0. Mackenzie, Officiating Second Assistant Surgeon at the Presidency General Hospital in Calcutta, I am enabled to lay before the profession the result of the first of a series of enquiries as to whether the "weight of the lungs, in Europeans, is reduced in weight in a ratio commensurate with residence in India. The table, in this respect} is not so complete as I ...

Cachexia is a disease process that develops in numerous chronic, end-stage disease processes (eg cancer, heart failure, AIDS, renal failure). It has no agreed definition but represents the complex metabolic process that occurs in patients with these conditions.1 Cachectic patients lose lean muscle mass as well as fat, unlike starvation where only fat stores are initially depleted. In addition, ...

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BACKGROUND Previous systematic reviews of weight management programmes (WMPs) have not been able to account for heterogeneity of effectiveness within programmes using top-down behavioural change taxonomies. This could be due to overlapping causal pathways to effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) in these complex interventions. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) can help identify these ov...

1. Correlations with weight at slaughter (SltWt) SltWt, DFI: For cattle, weighted mean estimates from the 6 studies cited by Arthur and Herd (2008) and Crowley et al. (2010) are: rg = 0.72, rp = 0.61, for weight (during a feed efficiency test) with DFI measured over at least 50 days. Genetic correlations of weight with DFI in lambs are similar (rg = 0.85, François et al., 2007; rg = 0.71 ± 0.11...