AIMS/INTRODUCTION Obesity plays a central role in metabolic syndrome. Obesity indexes are important in clinical work. In the present study, we sought to determine the relationships between obesity indexes and metabolic risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 11,568 participants over 35 years. Body mass index, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and waist-to-hip ratio...

OBJECTIVES We sought to compare the predictive value of echocardiographically determined left ventricular hypertrophy on death from all causes and cardiac mortality using various methods of indexation for left ventricular mass. BACKGROUND Considerable controversy exists regarding the optimal method for indexing left ventricular mass to body size in the clinical setting. METHODS The study in...

Cacho J, Sevillano J, de Castro J, Herrera E, Ramos MP. Validation of simple indexes to assess insulin sensitivity during pregnancy in Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 295: E1269–E1276, 2008. First published September 15, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.90207.2008.—Insulin resistance plays a role in the pathogenesis of diabetes, including gestational diabetes. The glucose...

Aboveground dry weight (AGDW) and leaf area index (LAI) are indicators of crop growth status grain yield as affected by interactions genotype, environment, management. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based remote sensing provides cost-effective non-destructive methods for the high-throughput phenotyping traits (e.g., AGDW LAI) through integration UAV-derived vegetation indexes (VIs) with statisti...

the objective of this study was to diagnose integrative ecological health of an urban stream,which is located in the asian temperate region. the research approach was primarily based on the index ofbiological integrity (ibi) using fish assemblage and a qualitative habitat evaluation index (qhei). and these indexes were compared with long-term conventional chemical dataset during 1996-2005. for ...

BACKGROUND Guidelines suggest a plateau pressure (PPLAT) of 30 cm H(2)O or less for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, but ventilation may still be injurious despite adhering to this guideline. The shape of the curve plotting airway pressure versus time (STRESS INDEX) may identify injurious ventilation. The authors assessed accuracy of PPLAT and STRESS INDEX to identify morpholo...

the objective of this study was to diagnose integrative ecological health of an urban stream,which is located in the asian temperate region. the research approach was primarily based on the index ofbiological integrity (ibi) using fish assemblage and a qualitative habitat evaluation index (qhei). and these indexes were compared with long-term conventional chemical dataset during 1996-2005. for ...

A four-year aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina was extremely unfavourable period for growth and development of children and youth. In spite of that, it is established that ontogeny of male children and youth (between 10.5-19.5 years) on the observed region is going well, and it is within the limits at the average European standards. By parallel analysis of growth of domestic and expatriate pe...

social capital (sc) is important as much as physical capital and theorists discussed its functions in enhancement of countries. successfulness in international fields is far behind reach without due attention to capacity of countries. these capacities are known as competitiveness capacity (cc) in political literature. twelve indexes have been recognized for the cc which covers different dimensi...