Recent progress in understanding general properties of high energy scattering near the unitarity limit, where high density gluon components of the wavefunction are dominant, is reviewed. The similarity of the QCD problem and that of reaction-diffusion processes in statistical physics is emphasized. The energy dependence of the saturation momentum and the status of geometric scaling are discussed.

To the Editor: Recently there have appeared many methods and modifications of methods to improve the accuracy and precision of high-density-lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol analysis. Indeed, it was emphasized to laboratories that would perform this test (1) that the laboratory must attain good precision to avoid an intolerably high misclassification rate. Laboratories that cannot achieve CVs of le...

QCD now occupies an established position as the well-attested theory of strong-interaction physics. Other contributions to these proceedings (those of S. Frixione, L. Lellouch, and K. Long) survey the agreement between evidence from particle collider experiments and perturbative and lattice QCD calculations. However, there is more to QCD than collisions between pairs of particles. QCD should al...

Classic Epidemiology: High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Is a Biomarker of Atherogenic Lipoproteins and Other Major Cardiovascular Risk Factors High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is a robust biomarker of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. In observational studies and many clinical trials of statin therapy, HDL cholesterol levels are inversely associated with CVD even...

The effects of triglyceridemia on plasma lipoproteins were investigated in 16 hypertriglyceridemic (HTG) subjects (222-2,500 mg/dl) before and after the initiation of bezafibrate therapy. Bezafibrate caused a mean reduction of 56% in plasma triglyceride and increased the levels of lipoprotein and hepatic triglyceride lipases by 260 and 213%, respectively. The natures of very low density lipopro...

An objective of this study is to search how physical examination and diet consultation can influence those risk factors of cardiovascular disease. The subjects were 326 pilots of the "B" airline company in Korea whose total cholesterol values were over 220 mg/dl on their regular physical examinations from April 2006 to December 2008. They were divided into two groups, one who had diet consultat...

OBJECTIVE Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality in Western countries. Atherosclerosis is a multi-step inflammatory disease characterized at early stages by accumulation of cholesterol in the arterial wall followed by recruitment of immune cells. We sought to determine if pharmacological suppression of RORα/γ activity is beneficial in treatment of atherosclerosis. M...