this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of spirulina pletensis powder on the growth performances (final weight (fw), daily growth ratio (dgr), feed indices (feed conversion rate (fcr), voluntary feed intake (vfi), protein efficiency ratio (per), protein produce value (ppv), body chemical (protein, fat, moisture and ash) and fatty acid composition of mugil cephalus for 62 days. the ...

OBJECTIVES Few have compared socio-economic disparities in screening tests for cancer with recommended tests for other chronic diseases. We examined whether receipt of testing for colorectal, cervical and breast cancer, as well as diabetes and high cholesterol, differs by neighbourhood-level socio-economic and recent immigrant status. METHODS We conducted a population-based retrospective coho...

BACKGROUND Available data suggest that hemoglobin A(1c) (A(1c)), also known as glycosylated hemoglobin, levels may be related to cardiovascular risk in the general population without diabetes mellitus. We sought to test this hypothesis prospectively in a cohort of women without overt cardiovascular disease. METHODS We conducted a nested case-control study of the Women's Health Study cohort. W...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Artificial lightning has been suggested to be one of the environmental risk factor breast cancer onset and progression, based on epidemiologic evidence biological plausibility. Possible mechanisms include DNA damage, impairment melatonin estrogens secretion, inflammation, metabolic function. METHODS: We performed a systematic review epidemiological studies examining associat...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated carotenoids and vitamins C and E in association with the risk of breast cancers defined by estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status. OBJECTIVE We examined the associations between dietary and supplemental intakes of these nutrients and risk of breast cancers jointly defined by both ER and PR status among postmenopausal women. DESIGN ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the associations of coffee consumption with the serum uric acid (SUA) level, hyperuricaemia (HU) and gout. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA A comprehensive literature search up to April 2015, using PubMed and EMBASE databases, was conducted to identify the observational researches that examined the associations of ...

The association between 21 vegetables and eight fruits and prostate cancer risk was assessed in the Netherlands Cohort Study among 58,279 men of ages 55-69 years at baseline in 1986. After 6.3 years of follow-up, 610 cases with complete vegetable data and 642 cases with complete fruit data were available for analysis. In multivariate case-cohort analyses, the following rate ratios (RRs) and 95%...

Studies were conducted to determine the effects of high dietary ascorbic acid (vitamin C) on growth performance and body composition of a commercially important Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus. During experimental trial in the laboratory condition, the change in growth and feed utilization by the Clarias batrachus fed on three different Vitamin C level have been assessed by the determination o...

An experiment was conducted for sixty days to evaluate the effects of Vitamin C of formulated feed on growth performance and body composition of stringing fish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1792). During experimental trial in the laboratory condition, the change in growth and feed utilization by the stringing fish fed on three different Vitamin C level have been assessed by the determination...