Stress cine function and vasodilating stress perfusion are commonly used approaches for the evaluation of ischemic heart disease. Both imaging approaches, using either stress echocardiography or stress nuclear scintigraphy, have stood the test of time as highly accurate in diagnosing coronary artery stenosis and as prognostic tools in patients with symptoms suspicious of myocardial ischemia.1,2...

This paper investigates the institutional reason underlying the change in the trajectory of economic growth in post-reform China, and argues that the trajectory of growth was much more normal during the period of 1978-89 than in the post-1989 era. In the former period, growth was largely induced by equality-generating institutional change in agriculture and the emergence of non-state industrial...

Functional mitral regurgitation has traditionally been defined as a disorder of regional or global left ventricular remodeling in which anatomically normal leaflets fail to coapt adequately.1 The abnormal closure pattern, most easily appreciated with echocardiography, is one of apical tethering of one or both leaflets. Based on a series of in vitro,2 animal,3 and human studies,4 we have embrace...

A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs6983267, at 8q24.21 has recently been shown to associate with colorectal cancer (CRC). Three independent SNP association studies showed that rs6983267 contributes to CRC with odds ratios (OR) of 1.17 to 1.22. Here, we genotyped a population-based series of 1,042 patients with CRC and 1,012 healthy controls for rs6983267 and determined the contrib...

This paper contributes to an ongoing debate in International Political Economy about the appropriateness of globalization, regionalization and macroeconomic imbalance theory by identifying quantitative estimates for all three tendencies from world trade data. This is achieved with a series of gravity models enhanced stepwise by the mapping of the estimation errors of a given model on representa...

Soil erosion implications on future food security are gaining global attention because in many areas worldwide there is an imbalance between soil loss and its subsequent deposition. Soil erosion is a complex phenomenon affected by many factors such as climate, topography and land cover (in particular forest resources, natural vegetation and agriculture) while directly influencing water sediment...

Introduction: Obesity is a pandemic syndrome, associated with the most prevalent and mortal pathologies in developed countries (Rajala and Scherer, 2003). This pathology results from an imbalance in the control of food intake and energy homeostasis as regulated by a complex network of peripheral and intra-hypothalamic signalling systems (Schwartz et al., 2000). On this basis, the investigation ...

The paper discusses China's post-reform regional economic growth imbalance relative to input disparity in technology, physical and human capital. Financial sources and types of ownership are used to construct physical capital. Technology is measured by innovation investment, and human capital is constructed from schooling years per capita. The results show that domestic bank loans and foreign-o...

This paper investigates the institutional reason underlying the change in the trajectory of economic growth in post-reform China, and argues that the trajectory of growth was much more normal during the period of 1978-89 than in the post-1989 era. In the former period, growth was largely induced by equality-generating institutional change in agriculture and the emergence of non-state industrial...

Introduction In type 1 diabetes (T1DM), left ventricular (LV) dysfunction often precedes significant coronary artery disease or hypertension. Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is associated with an increased prevalence of silent myocardial ischemia and is an independent risk factor for cardiac mortality. Longitudinal studies of CAN subjects have shown 5 year mortality rates between 16-50% (1),...