Background and Purpose—Excess fat accumulates in the subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue compartments. We tested the hypothesis that indicators of visceral adiposity, namely, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), are better predictors of stroke risk than body mass index (BMI). Methods–The association of BMI, WC, WHR, and WHtR with stroke was ...

UNLABELLED The radioactivity in the organs adjacent to the heart causes interference with the quantitative assessment of myocardial uptake of tracer on scintigraphy. In order to investigate how much the functions of these organs affect myocardial uptake seen in imaging, we compared the myocardial uptake measured by means of a gamma camera with the actual activity in the excised organs. METHOD...

A ccumulating evidence suggests that measures of abdominal obesity outperform BMI in predicting diabetes and cardiovascular risk (1–3). However, it is debated which measure of obesity should be used. Currently, waist circumference (WC) is most commonly used and codefines the metabolic syndrome (4). Unlike waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), WC does not take differences in height into account. We hypo...

For rock drilling applications, the cemented carbides containing hard WC grains in a ductile Co binder are commonly used as drill buttons. In considering environmental and health aspects an alternate to Co-binder is pursued. present work, using standard scratch testing friction wear properties of WC-20 vol% Ni grade studied compared that grade. The deformation characteristics carbide grades eva...

The development of inexpensive and efficient Pt-free electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is greatly crucial water electrolysis. Tungsten carbide (WC) exhibiting a Pt-like electronic structure represents an attractive alternative, although its overall performance limited by strong W-H bond that impedes desorption. Here, we employed in-situ interface engineering strategy to...

Aquaporin facilitates the osmotic water transport across biomembranes and is involved in the transcellular and intracellular water flow in plants. We immunochemically quantified the aquaporin level in leaf plasma membranes (PM) and tonoplast of Graptopetalum paraguayense, a Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant. The aquaporin content in the Graptopetalum tonoplast was approximately 1% of tha...

Abstract In this paper, the microstructure of Mo-type seismic refractory steel for building g, as well different boundary densities and ratios, are combined with elevated-temperature mechanical properties analysis to explore laws high-temperature performance. The results show that salt water cooling (SWC) (WC) can obtain lath bainite a higher content, oil (OC) lower rate multiphase + bulk ferri...

This report describes the measurement of water preexchange lifetimes and intra/extracellular content in intact, functioning mammalian brain. Intra- and extracellular water magnetic resonance (MR) signals from rat brain in vivo were quantitatively resolved in the longitudinal relaxation domain following administration of an MR relaxation agent into the extracellular space. The estimated intracel...

UNLABELLED Leptin is a peptidic hormone secreted by the fat tissue and plays an important role in body weight regulation. After menopause, weight gain increases as well as android-like obesity. Previous studies suggest a relationship between leptin level, body mass index (BMI) and fat distribution. OBJECTIVE To establish the relationships between serum leptin, BMI, waist circumference (WC), a...

INTRODUCTION Obesity is a growing health problem associated with metabolic derangements and cardiovascular disease. Accumulating evidence links the accumulation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) to these obesity related health risks in adults. Childhood obesity is associated with a lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease and poses a serious challenge to future health care. In children, there is ...