VAT, kg 6-cm Up a 0.36±0.26 0.18±0.10 0.52±0.25 6-cm Mid a 0.36±0.26 0.18±0.10 0.51±0.25 6-cm Down a 0.34±0.18 0.21±0.09*† 0.45±0.17*† IHL, mmol/kg wet wt 36.4±34.4 22.4±22.9 48.5±38.2 FFA-b, mM 0.59±0.22 0.55±0.26 0.62±0.17 TG-b, mg/dl a 71.4±38.2 58.4±25.7 80.4±43.0 Glucose-b, mg/dl 99.7±10.1 95.1±6.9 103.0±10.8 a p<.05: NO vs. OB; p<.05: *vs. 6-cm Up, † vs. 6-cm Mid, ‡ vs. 6-cm Down. Abdomin...

Recent investigations indicate that personality traits are unevenly distributed geographically, with some traits being more prevalent in certain places than in others. The geographical distributions of personality traits are associated with a range of important political, economic, social, and health outcomes. The majority of research on this subject has focused on the geographical distribution...

Hypertension is a chronic disease with global prevalence and incidence rapidly increasing in low and medium income countries. The surveillance of cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension, is a global health priority in order to estimate the burden and trends, to appropriately direct resources, and to measure the effect of interventions. We propose here that the adoption of Western life...

Regional cerebral blood flow was measured by the 133-xenon inhalation method during resting in 38 healthy men and 38 healthy women matched pairwise for age in the range 18-72 years. The results showed 11% higher global flow level in the women in all ages. A similar and significant regression of flow by age was seen for both sexes. The regional flow distribution also showed some sex-related diff...

This article presents a method for the segmentation of substructures based on exploratory factor analysis. In this approach, a high-dimensional set of shape-related variables is examined with the purpose of finding clusters with strong correlation. This clustering can potentially identify regions that have anatomic significance and thus lend insight to morphometric investigations. Methods: The ...

-Patients with melanoma who had one or more close relatives with melanoma were studied for their natural-killer-cell (NK) activity against cultured melanoma cells and Chang cells. A high proportion of the patients and their relatives were found to have low NK activity against these target cells. In most of the patients this could not be attributed to general depression of their immune function,...

Regional differences in the neuronal cytoskeleton were investigated in the giant neurons of Aplysia. Using SDS-PAGE, we have compared the proteins which comprise the cytoskeletons of cell bodies and axons. Separate populations of cell bodies and axons were collected and the proteins stained by the Coomassie brilliant blue method. Individual identified cell bodies, with long segments of their ax...

This study aims to estimate regional and gender differences in the prevalence of alcohol consumption in Croatia. It is based on the data obtained from the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003. The highest prevalence of alcohol consumption in men was reported in Eastern Croatia (14.1%). Men living in the Mountainous region had the lowest prevalence of reported alcohol consumption (8.8%). In contras...

while the relations of iran and russia with the central asian states have been analyzed separately in previous studies, the regional foreign policies of these two countries have not been compared in detail. as a result, it would be difficult to comprehend the extent of the similarities and differences inherent in the foreign policy behaviors of these two key players in the central asian region....