BACKGROUND Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common genetic heart disease, is characterized by heterogeneous phenotypic expression. Body mass index has been associated with LV mass and heart failure symptoms in HCM. The aim of our study was to investigate whether regional (trunk, appendicular, epicardial) fat distribution and extent could be related to hypertrophy severity and pattern...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been associated with increased cardiovascular risk, including coronary artery disease and cardiac dysfunction. In addition, recent evidence highlighted the possible role of epicardial fat as a new cardiometabolic risk factor. We tested the correlation between epicardial fat, alterations in cardiac geometry and function, and severit...

The present study was conducted on females (n = 279) in the age range of 51-89 year, living in the urban dwellings of Delhi, India. Another group of 21-25 years old young adult females was taken as a control group. A total of 14 anthropometric measurements were taken: stature, sitting height, weight, skinfold thickness at nine different sites over the body and body girths such as upper arm, wai...

This research clarified the changes in body shape among Japanese women aged in their 20's, by measuring the subcutaneous fat distribution over the whole body and its circumference at certain points. The subjects, 13 healthy women, were measured twice, once in their early 20's and 5 years later in their late 20's. Subcutaneous fat thickness was measured at 14 points on the body using the B-mode ...

CONCLUSION: In both groups, fat grafting for pedal atrophy positively impacted pain and function. These measures demonstrated a persistent improvement, though fat volume returned to baseline. This finding may be attributed to the observed increase in dermal thickness. Together, these results suggest that fat grafting may thicken or stabilize the dermis, contributing to improved clinical outcome...

A chief morbidity of Graves eye disease is eyelid retraction and exophthalmus. Transpalpebral orbital fat removal accomplished with full thickness anterior blepharotomy was performed in 4 patients (5 orbits). Preoperative and postoperative ocular exposure symptoms, visual acuity, upper eyelid retraction and proptosis were evaluated. In all 5 operated orbits preoperative symptoms resolved; good ...

Carcass measurements from 1,664 steers from the Germ Plasm Utilization project at U.S. Meat Animal Research Center were used to estimate heritabilities (h(2)) of, and genetic correlations (r(g)) among, 14 carcass traits adjusted to different endpoints (age, carcass weight, and fat thickness): HCW (kg), dressing percent (DP), adjusted fat thickness (AFT, cm), LM area (LMA, cm(2)), KPH (%), marbl...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of selection criteria for post-weaning daily gain (PWDG) and early sexual heifer precocity (PP14) on performance, carcass traits meat quality Nellore bulls. In year one, 50 animals were selected according their expected progeny differences (EPDs) PWDG grouped as high (HG) or low (LG) groups. two, EPD PP14 also (HP) (LP). After slaughter, sample...

A pig neck is meat predominantly used for barbecues and the amount of lipids and cholesterol in relation to the activities of lipid peroxide reducing enzymes is important also for the prevention of oxysterol formation during a thermal preparation. We examined lipid peroxide reducing enzymes activities in the pig neck as well as the amount of lipids and cholesterol. We found high activity of bot...