in order to implement vat, various countries have applied different procedures including: manufacturing products, whole sale and consumer price procedures, according to their economic structure. for iran, it is proposed that in the first step, vat be confined to manufacturing products and imports, and after some successful implementation in this earlier step, with achieved experience and knowle...

UNLABELLED Video-assisted thoracoscopy (VAT) is usually performed under general anesthesia (GA). We performed an analysis to determine whether multithoracoport VAT under local anesthesia (LA) is feasible. METHODS Forty-five VAT under LA were performed in 34 men and 11 women (mean age 46.8 years) in the endoscopy room. RESULTS The waiting time for VAT under LA was 0.5-6h on working days. The...

Contribution of individual adiponectin isoforms to lipolysis regulation remains unknown. We investigated the impact of full-length, trimeric and globular adiponectin isoforms on spontaneous lipolysis in subcutaneous abdominal (SCAAT) and visceral adipose tissues (VAT) of obese and non-obese subjects. Furthermore, we explored the role of AMPK (5'-AMP-activated protein kinase) in adiponectin-depe...

There is increasing evidence that poor early growth confers an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and other features of the metabolic syndrome in later life. We hypothesized that this may result from poor nutrition during early life exerting permanent effects on the structure and function of key metabolic organ systems. To study the long-term impact of early-life undernutrition on...

the aim of this study is to produce a theory of action with emphasis on the vat tax and to discover the underlying condition, the causal factors and interventions that affect this action. the method of underlying theory was used. and using purposive sampling, depth interviews were conducted with 51 participants. the findings show that deinstitutionalization of vat is of category or central core...

BACKGROUND Excess accumulation of abdominal subcutaneous (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is associated with adverse levels of adipokines and cardiovascular disease risk. Whether fat quality is associated with adipokines has not been firmly established. This study examined the association between abdominal SAT and VAT density, an indirect measure of fat quality, with a panel of metabolic...

In a survey of retail meat samples, twelve quinupristin-dalfopristin-resistant (MICs, > or =4 mg/liter) Enterococcus faecium isolates that carried a vat(E) gene were recovered. DNA sequence comparison revealed five new variations in the vat(E) allele among 12 isolates, which were designated vat(E-4) through vat(E-8); two isolates had vat(E-1). There was no correlation between the number of base...

A Possible Role of Visceral Fat-Related Inflammation in Linking Obstructive Sleep Apnea to Left Ventricular Hypertrophy To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Avelar et al1 titled “Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Severe Obesity. Interactions Among Blood Pressure, Nocturnal Hypoxemia, and Body Mass.” Although the contribution of obstructive sleep apnea to the development of le...

Excess visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is associated with a cluster of metabolic abnormalities. A new dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)-based VAT measurement approach, CoreScan™, computes VAT mass and volume within the android region of a total body DXA scan. However, there have been no reference values developed for this method. The objective of this study was to determine the normal refere...

OBJECTIVE Obesity can be considered a state of chronic, low-grade inflammation. Particularly, visceral adipose tissue (VAT) seems to be an active compartment in pro-inflammatory molecule secretion. Adipocytes and VAT are able to produce large amounts of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1), a chemokine directly involved in ventricular remodeling. DESIGN In this study, the possible exist...