Introduction The discussion on the role of diet in the aetiology of coronary heart disease has tended to focus on the negative: that is, on the allegedly harmful aspects of the diet such as saturated fats, cholesterol, sucrose or purified carbohydrates. The underlying atherosclerosis can be considered as a degenerative disease, strongly linked with environmental factors, which ends in coronary ...

BACKGROUND To explore and compare the factor structure of the 12-item Oxford shoulder score (OSS) and 13-item shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI). METHODS Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of data from 660 patients attending 46 hospitals in the UK. Complete OSS and SPADI data were available for 648 (98.2%) and 628 (95.2%) participants, respectivel...

Eighty patients with aorto-iliac/ femoro-popliteal atherosclerosis were collected to examine in detail their plasma cholesteryl ester fatty acid compositions and to compare them with the incidence of ischaemic heart disease through a 4-year follow-up. Various other biochemical and rheological parameters were also measured to see if these might explain any association between the abnormal fatty ...

BACKGROUND Procrastination is a common behavior which affects different aspects of life. The procrastination assessment scale-student (PASS) evaluates academic procrastination apropos its frequency and reasons. OBJECTIVES The aims of the present study were to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the Farsi version of the PASS in a sample of Iranian medical students. PATIENTS AND METHODS...

BACKGROUND Essential fatty acids are components of cell membranes and precursors of immunomodulating factors that may play a role in the inflammatory and immunological pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis. Trials of supplementation with essential fatty acids (EFA) to alleviate atopic dermatitis (AD) have given inconsistent results. OBJECTIVES To summarize and quantify the results of placebo-cont...

We tested the hypothesis that maternal supply of essential fatty acids (EFA), especially ?-linolenic acid, and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), affects glucose metabolism, endocrine regulation energy metabolism growth, intestinal development neonatal calves. studied calves from dams received an abomasal infusion 76 g/d coconut oil (CTRL; n = 9), 78 linseed 4 safflower (EFA; 38 Lutalin (BASF SE) ...

There is no standardized instrument to measure environmental awareness based on local wisdom. Therefore, the purpose of this study conduct an Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) assessment This has a non-experimental design with ex-post facto type. The Likert scale transformed into summated rating scale. Furthermore, initial construct validation was carried out using EFA test. Based results EFA, ...

(2014) Effect of varying dietary levels of LC-PUFA and vegetable oil sources on performance and fatty acids of Senegalese sole post larvae: Puzzling results suggest complete biosynthesis pathway from C18 PUFA to DHA, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology-Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 167, pp. 51-58. NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication...

BACKGROUND The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a tool to measure the risk for mental disorders in children. The aim of this study is to describe the diagnostic efficiency and internal structure of the SDQ in the sample of children studied in the Spanish National Health Survey 2006. METHODS A representative sample of 6,773 children aged 4 to 15 years was studied. The data wer...

Intravenous lipid emulsions (ILE) have demonstrated advantages including prevention of essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency; however, too much EFA can down regulate fatty acid elongation leading to an imbalance of nutritional compounds in plasma and cell membranes. An olive oil-based ILE containing long-chain triacylglycerols (LCT) with a low content (20 %) of PUFA was administered for home pa...