Clinical use of image-guided therapy (IGT) systems has grown, creating the need for a common and rigorous validation methodology, as reported in recent workshops and conferences. [1,2,3,4] One key characteristic of IGT systems is that they employ medical image processing methods (e.g. segmentation, registration, visualization, calibration). As a result of this intrinsic structure, validation of...

Recent research has identified a number of factors that can influence performance on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) when it is used in clinical or research settings. The current studies examine the effects of construal level theory (CLT) on the IGT. Study 1 suggests that when primed with a high construal mindset (i.e., thinking abstractly vs. concretely), individuals learned to avoid Deck A more ...

Inductive game theory (IGT) aims to explore sources of beliefs of a person in his individual experiences from behaving in a social situation. It has various steps, each of which already involves a lot of different aspects. A scenario for IGT was spelled out in Kaneko-Kline (13). So far, IGT has been studied chiefly in theoretical manners, while some other papers targeted applications and conduc...

The aim of this study was to describe self-perceived health and symptoms of elderly persons with diabetes mellitus (DM) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and to explore whether there are special symptoms associated with undiagnosed DM or IGT. The study population consisted of community-living northern Finnish persons aged 70 years of over (n=379). Poor self-perceived health and high number of...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased in recent decades to epidemic proportions. About 150 million individuals worldwide had type 2 diabetes in 2000, and this number is expected to increase to 300 million by the year 2025 (1). Because of the chronic course of type 2 diabetes and the significant morbidity and mortality associated with the vascular complications of the disease, type 2 d...

A research was carried out so as to determine the effect of Iranian green tea (IGT) powder in diet on blood metabolites and carcass traits of broiler chickens. Therefore, considered four treatments consisting (basic diet + IGT 5g/kg feed, basic diet + IGT 10g/kg feed, basic diet + IGT 15g/kg feed and one control diet without additive), and three replicates (15 chicks per repea...

The aim of our study was to compare the effect of simvastatin on systemic inflammation and monocyte secretory function between subjects with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and isolated hypercholesterolemia. We studied 26 patients with isolated IGT and 24 subjects with primary hypercholesterolemia, who were treated for 12 weeks with 20 mg of simvastatin daily. Plasma lipids, fasting and 2-h po...

OBJECTIVE In a recent consensus statement, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) concluded that individuals with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) have "normal muscle insulin sensitivity." To subject this conclusion to further validation, we evaluated the relationship between glucose tolerance categories and peripheral insulin sensitivity in a large nondiabetic population. RESEARCH DESIGN AND ...

AIM To evaluate the differences in insulin resistance (IR) among subjects with normal glucose tolerance (NGT), hyperinsulinemia with NGT (HINS), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS 5 NGT, 25 HINS, 25 IGT, and 25 T2DM subjects participated in this research. The hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp technique (HECT) was performed in all of ...

To determine the relationship between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations and age-related impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), mtDNA from skeletal muscle of 19 volunteers, ages 55-75 years, with either IGT or diabetes and 17 age- and sex-matched control subjects was analyzed using a long-extension polymerase chain reaction (PCR) combined with a quantitative PCR. We found the common 4,977-bp deleti...