OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship of total adiposity and abdominal adiposity on hemoglobin levels in Saudi nonpregnant women. METHODS We carried out this cross-sectional study during winter of 2002 (from January to March) in and around Abha city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Included in the study were 530 non-pregnant women between the age of 18-65 years. Body weight was measured using an Aver...

The aim of this paper is to describe innovations taking place in national nutrition surveys in the UK and the challenges of undertaking innovations in such settings. National nutrition surveys must be representative of the overall population in characteristics such as socio-economic circumstances, age, sex and region. High response rates are critical. Dietary assessment innovations must therefo...

Imperatorin (IMP) is the major active ingredient in many common medicinal herbs. We examined the irreversible inhibitory effect of IMP on CYP2B6. IMP produced a timeand concentrationdependent inactivation of CYP2B6. About 70% of activity of CYP2B6 was suppressed after its incubation with 1.5 mM IMP for 9 minutes. KI and kinact were found to be 0.498 mM and 0.079 min , respectively. The loss of ...

al monogamy4 and covert sex outside the main relationship. Delayed marriage and high divorce rates mean that growing numbers of individuals experience multiple sexual partners in a lifetime, and this greatly increases their exposure to infection. Furthermore, National Health and Social Life Survey data show that around 25% of men and 10% of women report extramarital or extracohabitational affai...

Rodent animal models have been widely used for studying neurologic and toxicological events associated with cocaine abuse. It is known that the mouse is more susceptible to cocaine-induced hepatotoxicity (CIH) than the rat. However, the causes behind this species-dependent sensitivity to cocaine have not been elucidated. In this study, cocaine metabolism in the mouse and rat was characterized t...