BACKGROUND The associations of different components of body mass with disease outcomes are not well defined. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of body composition on risk of death from cardiac causes and cancer in adult men. DESIGN Middle-aged men (n = 7608) in the Paris Prospective Study were followed up for 15 y. At study entry, the following measurements were obtained: sagittal diame...

In prenatal and pediatric cardiovascular surgery knowledge of the various arrangements of the aortic arch and its branches as well as the normative data are essential. The variability and morphometric features of the brachiocephalic trunk in 131 human foetuses (65 male, 66 female) ranging from 15 to 34 weeks of gestation were studied by means of anatomical, digital and statistical methods. In a...

Abstract Key message New technologies can take us towards real precision forestry: the terrestrial single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has a great potential to outperform conventional linear mode LiDARs in measuring tree parameters at stand level. Context Precision forestry together with new sensor implies Digital Forest Inventories for estimation of volume ...

We compared the branches and trunk of rat superior mesenteric artery (SMA) with respect to extracellular pH (pHo)-dependent changes in vascular contractility. Decreases in pHo from 7.8 to 6.4 significantly reduced apparent affinity (pD2) to norepinephrine (NE) and maximal contraction by NE, which were more prominent in larger-diameter arteries. On the other hand, decreases in pHo significantly ...

We report successful surgical treatment in a case of acute type A aortic dissection complicated with distal arch aneurysm. A 74-year-old man presenting with sudden posterior headache was found by enhanced computed tomography to have an ascending aortic dissection (type A) and a distal arch aneurysm of 69 mm in maximal minor axis diameter. We performed total arch replacement, employing a four-br...

The structure of forests has changed with an increase in soft-wooded broadleaved species over the past decade. demand for hard-wooded can be met by replacing them compressed wood species. Existing technologies do not fully take into account density variations that exist along height a tree trunk. In this study, we examined variability birch and aspen microstructures trunk, including vessels per...