BACKGROUND Previous studies indicated that lifestyle-related cardiovascular risk factors tend to be clustered in certain individuals. However, population-based studies, especially from developing countries with substantial economic heterogeneity, are extremely limited. Our study provides updated data on the clustering of cardiovascular risk factors, as well as the impact of lifestyle on those f...

BACKGROUND Serum bilirubin is an endogenous antioxidant that is routinely measured before a statin is prescribed primarily to assess liver function, but the association with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in this population has not been explored. METHOD AND RESULTS We identified patients from a United Kingdom primary care database (The Health Improvement Network) with measurements of serum tota...

BACKGROUND Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is a common method used in diagnostic and screening tests to define thresholds levels of a factor that discriminates between 2 levels of another factor. The purpose of this analysis was to use ROC analysis to determine the optimal accelerometer-measured physical activity (PA) thresholds for predicting selective cardiovascular disease (...

Objective: This study aimed to assess hospital pharmacists knowledge of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and their practice primary prevention CVD. Design method: was a prospective cross sectional survey all the Hospital in Federal Medical Centre Lokoja (FMCL), Kogi State Specialist (KSSH) both L.G.A Nigeria. A Questionnaire on diagnostic cut-off for common diseases CVD used study. The...

we evaluated the effect of fe/alumina catalyst contained different cadmium contents and two synthesis temperatures on producing carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition of methane as a feedstock.  x-ray powder diffraction (xrd), n2 adsorption-desorption, scanning electron microscopy (sem), transmission electron microscopy (tem), raman spectroscopy and thermogravimetry analysis (tga) were u...