BACKGROUND Several studies have shown associations between hyperglycemia and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality, yet glucose-lowering treatment does little to mitigate this risk. We examined whether associations between hyperglycemia and CVD risk were explained by underlying insulin resistance. METHODS In 60 middle-aged individuals without diabetes we studied the associations ...

The role of very low temperature (90-170oC) high density inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDICP CVD) process in RF MEMS switch fabrication is addressed. The results on SiNx layers produced by both HDICP CVD and plasma enhanced CVD (PECVD) are compared in terms of surface roughness, breakdown voltage and RF MEMS switch performance. It is found that HDICP CVD can provide very...

OBJECTIVE The plasma leptin/adiponectin (L/A) ratio has been proposed as a preferential marker of atherosclerosis susceptibility compared to leptin and adiponectin alone. We determined the extent to which the L/A ratio predicts incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) taking account of clinical risk factors, microalbuminuria, the total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol (TC/HDL-C ratio), triglycerides, h...

This article presents the synthesis and systematic study on graphene-like carbon thin films directly grown on commercial glass by using remote-ECR Plasma Assisted CVD. The fabrication process is extremely rapid and performed on to 2 inch scale dielectric substrate at relatively low temperature (< 550oC) without using metal catalyst. This method avoids damaging and expensive transfer processes o...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to study the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among 11,000 inhabitants in Northern Helsinki, and to identify high-risk individuals in the area and direct them to the local primary-health-care-centred CVD-risk-factor prevention programme. METHOD We conducted a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), a descriptive survey and primary care unit sea...

A perovskite solar cell is produced using the scalable technique aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition for first time. This achieved by a 2-step process with lead acetate as source and methanol solvent.

We introduce a process for the fabrication of high-quality, spatially isolated nano-diamonds on iridium via microwave-plasma-assisted chemical vapour deposition (CVD) growth. We perform spectroscopy of single siliconvacancy (SiV) centres produced during the growth of the nano-diamonds. The colour centres exhibit extraordinary narrow zero-phonon-lines down to 0.7 nm at room temperature. Single p...

The purpose of this study is to explore possible potential implications of cold air in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in rats. Healthy Wistar rats were exposed to artificial cold air under laboratory conditions, and their systolic blood pressure, heart rate, vasoconstriction, CVD risk factors, and myocardial damage indicators after cold air exposure were determined and evaluated. Systolic bl...

The stannous alkoxides [Sn(OR)2] [R = i-Pr, t-Bu, C(Et)Me2, CHPh2, CPh3] have been synthesised by reaction of Sn(NR'2)2 with two equivalents of HOR [R' = Me, R = i-Pr; R' = SiMe3, R = t-Bu, C(Et)Me2, CHPh2, CPh3]. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of the bis(diphenylmethoxide) (4) and bis(triphenylmethoxide) (5) species have shown them to comprise three-coordinate Sn(ii) centres through...