BACKGROUND The African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension was a multicenter trial of African Americans with hypertensive kidney disease randomized to an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ramipril), a beta-blocker (metoprolol succinate), or a calcium channel blocker (amlodipine besylate). We compared the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and the composite outcome o...

Let G be an IFG. Then V D  is said to bae a strong (weak) dominating set if every D V v   is strongly (weakly) dominated by some vertex in D. We denote the strong (weak) intuitionistic fuzzy dominating set by sid-set (wid-set). The minimum vertex cardinality over all the sid-set (wid-set) is called the strong (weak) dominating number of an IFG and is denoted by )] ( [ ) ( G G wid sid   In ...

Previous work suggests that transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) over the prefrontal cortex could influence inhibitory control. Nevertheless, specific neural mechanisms underlying this proposed effect have not been investigated. Here, we aimed at exploring behavioral and neurophysiological effects of tRNS applied bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) on control performance during a Go/...

INTRODUCTION As a result of rapid economic development in China, the lifestyles and dietary habits of its people have been changing, and the rates of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions have increased substantially. We report the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and the association between diabetes and overweight and obesity in Chinese adults. We also...

In 1997, the Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus lowered the fasting criterion for diabetes from 140 (7.8 mmol/l) to 126 mg/dl (7.0 mmol/l) (1). This decision was made to allow the prevalence of diabetes diagnosed by fasting plasma glucose (FPG) concentrations to equal the prevalence of diabetes diagnosed by 2-h values on a glucose tolerance test. The fact ...

RESULTSdIncidence rates of CVD (per 100,000 person-years) were 2,203 for diabetes. Ageadjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for CVDwere 1.17 (95%CI 1.13–1.20) for grade 1 IFG, 1.30 (1.24– 1.35) for grade 2 IFG, and 1.81 (1.75–1.86) for diabetes. The increased risk for women was similar to that of men. Age-adjusted HRs for IHD and ischemic stroke were also significantly increased for men and women with I...

Method A cross-sectional design was used. All together 348 obese and 445 non-obese children and adolescents (aged from 6-16 years old) were enrolled in this study. Obese children were divided into four subgroups: normal glucose tolerance (NGT), isolated impaired fasting glucose (IFG), isolated impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), combined IFG and ITG (IFG+ITG) according to the oral glucose toleran...

There is much current debate about the existence of mirror neurons in humans. To identify mirror neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) of humans, we used a repetition suppression paradigm while measuring neural activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects either executed or observed a series of actions. Here we show that in the IFG, responses were suppressed both when an ...