AIMS Our research aimed to investigate the relationship between Apolipoprotein A5 (APOA5) T1131C polymorphism and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS We searched the relevant articles in databases and 25 ones were chosen. The association between APOA5 T1131C polymorphism and CAD risk was evaluated using odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs). The fixed-effect ...

Herbal and nutritional supplements are more and more popular in the western population. One of them is an extract of an exotic plant, named Tribulus terrestris (TT). TT is a component of several supplements that are available over-the-counter and widely recommended, generally as enhancers of human vitality. TT is touted as a testosterone booster and remedy for impaired erectile function; theref...

Interrupted experimental tests were carried out to investigate the impacts of adhesive layer on Riv(et)-Bonding processes with different die types. The layer’s influences quality Riv-Bonded joints top sheet thickness (Tt) also studied. It was found that distribution trapped significantly affected by Tt rather than type. Deformation and fracture behaviours apparently influenced adhesive. negativ...

In this note we study a certain class of groups w for which the homotopy classification of (rr, m)-complexes is independent of the fc-invariant for small m. 1. Homotopy trees. A (tt, w)-complex is a finite, connected w-dimensional CW-complex such that ttx(X) = m and ttj(X) = 0 for 1 < i < m. The homotopy tree HT(tt, m) is a directed tree whose vertices are homotopv classes of (tt, w)-complexes....

Introduction Environmental pollutants could be implicated in female endocrine setting Q6 beyond traditional factors. Until now, few study has focused on the association of environmental exposure to heavy metals with sex hormones postmenopausal women. This intended investigate whether serum levels metals(i.e., Cd, Pb, Hg, Mn, Se) would influence Methods and results A cross-sectional was performe...

Para Baker (1996), existem características comuns aos textos traduzidos (TT) independentes das línguas fonte e alvo que podem ser percebidas com o auxílio da Linguística de Corpus (LC), duas delas são: explicitação, na qual ideias implícitas no texto (TF) são explicadas TT; simplificação, por meio TT é simplificado para facilitar a compreensão do leitor. O objetivo deste trabalho investigar, ba...

Background The response to CSF tap test (TT) has been considered an indicator of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and a predictor shunt effectiveness. Although the effects TT are thought be transient, duration those not studied in detail. Method We performed retrospective analysis 32 consecutive patients with NPH who underwent quantitative gait before, immediately after, 1 month after TT. Re...

The association between the Serine/threonine kinase 15 (STK15) F31I polymorphism (rs2273535) and cancer susceptibility remains controversial. To further investigate this potential relationship, we conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 27 published studies involving a total of 19,267 multiple cancer cases and 24,359 controls. Our results indicate statistical evidence of an association betwe...

PURPOSE To evaluate the predictive role of the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), mean platelet volume (MPV), and platelet count (PLT) in the diagnosis of testicular torsion (TT) and testicular viability following TT. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed two study groups in this retrospective study: 75 patients with a diagnosis of TT (group 1) and 56 age-ma...