AIM This study aimed to explore the associations between abdominal obesity, inflammatory markers and subclinical organ damage in 740 middle-aged patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS Waist circumference (WC) and sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) were measured, and blood samples were analyzed for C-reactive protein (CRP) and IL-6. Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) was evaluated by ultrason...

The synergistic effect of WC and Pd has large benefit for ethanol electrooxidation. The small-sized Pd nanoparticles (NPs) decorated tungsten carbide on graphene (Pd-WC/GN) will be a promising anode catalyst for the direct ethanol fuel cells. The density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the strong interaction exists at the interface between Pd and WC, which induces the electron ...

This paper identifies the effect of health insurance on workers' compensation (WC) filing for young adults by implementing a regression discontinuity design using WC medical claims data from Texas. The results suggest health insurance factors into the decision to have WC pay for discretionary care. The implied instrumental variables estimates suggest a ten-percentage-point decrease in health in...

Electron backscattered diffraction has been used to determine the orientation of WC crystals in a WC-Co composite and atomic force microscopy has been used to measure the shapes of planar sections of the same crystals. A stereological analysis has been used to determine that { } 1010 prism facets and the {0001} basal planes are the WC surfaces that are most frequently in contact with Co. Furthe...

Monitoring the push force is an important asset during wheelchair (WC) sports training. However, current instrumented wheels cannot be used without significantly altering the WC-user dynamics. Moreover, the push force could not be estimated directly from the WC acceleration because of the strong influence of the upper body movement on the WC-user dynamics. In this paper, we present a new method...

In this work infiltration behavior of mechanical alloyed 75 wt% Cu – 25 wt% WC powders into porous WC compacts were studied. Owing to their ductile nature, initial Cu powders were directly added to mechanical alloying batch. On the other hand initial WC powders were high energy milled prior to mechanical alloying. Contact infiltration method was selected for densification and compacts prepared ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Anthropometric measures such as body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) have differential associations with incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) and mortality. We examined the associations of BMI and WC with various CKD complications. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 2,853 adult participants with CKD in the National Health and Nutrition Examinatio...

AIM/INTRODUCTION We evaluated the association between hypertriglyceridemic waist (HTW) phenotype and the risks of type 2 diabetes in an Iranian high-risk population. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed 7-year follow-up data (n = 1,865) in non-diabetic first-degree relatives of consecutive patients with type 2 diabetes aged 30-70 years. The primary outcome was the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes ba...

There are conflicting data as to whether general or abdominal obesity is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk. This cross-sectional study involved 4,573 subjects aged 30 to 74 yr who participated in the Fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted in 2008. Obesity phenotype was classified by means of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), and partici...