Study links high carbohydrate diet to increased breast cancer risk
...when the research team took into account body mass index and other such potentially confounding factors as socioeconomic status, age at first birth, number of children, and family history of breast cancer, the relationship between carbohydrate intake and breast cancer remained the same. Dietary fat certai...Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars
...meters exists: the closest equivalent is a cardset index (Anti Incendio Boschivi or AIB) recording fire-fighting interventions by the Italian Forest Guards. The ITALSCAR burn scar maps were produced across a wide variety of different forest classes. Burn scars were mapped pixel by pixel using an automated...Endurance exercise found to be equally effective as diuretics in improving cardiac health
...rtial regression of LVH with reductions in LV mass index and relative wall thickness in older adults with mild hypertension. The data also suggests that the extent of this reversal is likely to be similar to that induced by thiazide diuretic. Additionally, the researchers found that the reduction in syst...NASA scientists get global fix on food, wood & fiber use
...into a model a global satellite derived vegetation index and climate data from 1982 to 1998. The data came from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites. The multi-year data set was processed at GSFC. "...Gestational diabetes not found to alter the metabolic processes in obese pregnant women
...se the prevalence of obesity (defined as body mass index greater than 30) now approaches 20 percent in adolescents and adults, reaching epidemic proportions. Given the strong association of obesity with decreased insulin sensitivity, researchers prospectively evaluated changes, over an extended time period...Brace therapy for osteoarthrisis, legal issues in TBI research, prosthetic fitting
...-living tasks. Pinch force (grip between thumb and index finger) is a measure of surgical outcome for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Investigators recorded pinch force and the ability to perform daily-living tasks such as opening and closing zippers, using a remote control button, and stabbing ...Gene-based screen sorts cancer cases, say Stanford researchers
...d likely combine information from the IPI clinical index with results from the six-gene screen to decide how best to treat the patient. Postdoctoral scholar Izidore Lossos, MD, was the first author on the paper. Other collaborators include Debra Czerwinski, research assistant; Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD, postdo...Scientists identify six genes associated with survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma
...) to evaluate patients with DLBCL. This predictive index is based on clinical factors including age, stage of the tumor, and the presence of disease that has spread outside the point of origin. While the IPI provides a standard way to evaluate cases of DLBCL, clinical outcomes among DLBCL patients with ide...Risk of preeclampsia rises sharply with increased pre-pregnancy body mass index
...mpare the development of preeclampsia to body mass index (BMI - a widely used method of calculating percentage of body fat) as a continuum rather than simply by conventional classification units. It also is the first study to try to determine the mechanisms by which body fat increases preeclampsia risk. Pr...Obesity alone not a good predictor of cardiovascular risk and death, fat distribution proved best
...ed steadily for women once they passed a body mass index of 25 (approximately 160 lbs. for a 5'6" woman) until they reached body mass index of 30 (approximately 185 lbs.), then it leveled off. Based on obesity alone, a woman was no more li......te the Normalized Difference VegetationIndex. This index is a measure of plant health, based on theprinciple that plants absorb solar radiation in the red part ofthe spectrum of sunlight used for photosynthesis during plantgrowth. These data were then entered into a Stanford Universitycomputer model to der...Dinosaur fossil record compiled, analyzed
...timeline for evolution. The Relative Completeness index measures the percentage of how much missing data there might be to how much researchers actually have. And the Gap Excess Ratio measures how much missing data there actually is to the minimum missing data possible if the genera were arranged in the f...Could memory performance and spatial learning be genetically based?
...lative distance traveled over the 24 trials as the index of acquisition performance (ACQTD). The percent of...stance traveled on the probe trial was used as the index of spatial accuracy (SpA). Linkage map, marker regression and interval mapping analyses were done t...Other highlights in the February 4 issue of JNCI
...st cancers with reproductive history and body mass index after menopause. The authors concluded that incidence rates and risk factors for breast cancer differ according to both ER and PR status; thus, to accurately estimate breast cancer risk, breast cancer cases should be divided according to the ER/PR st...'Elves' makes protein crystallography easier
...er, Scaler, Phaser and Refmacer that automatically index the spots, locate heavy atoms in the protein, determine phase information through multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, build a model, and just process the data or refine the model. No human intervention is needed as Elves tries different parameters...Alcohol exposure in pre- and early post-natal stages may cause insulin resistance
...n after the glucose challenge. A glucose tolerance index (KG), representing the net glucose elimination rat...nous insulin, was calculated. Insulin sensitivity index (SI) was determined by modeling. The products of SI with AIR were used as the disposition index (DI...Inflammation of fat cells linked to obesity-related insulin resistance
... of human obesity, by demonstrating that body mass index and average fat cell size were significant predictors of macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue. Hong Chen and colleagues demonstrated that the upregulation of many inflammation and macrophagespecific genes precedes a dramatic increase in ci...JCI table of contents, December 15 2003
... of human obesity, by demonstrating that body mass index and average fat cell size were significant predictors of macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue. Hong Chen and colleagues demonstrated that the upregulation of many inflammation and macrophagespecific genes precedes a dramatic increase in...Symbiotic fungi promote invasion into diverse plant communities (Rudgers et al.)
... Italian breeding grounds the following spring. An index of primary production obtained by satellite remote-sensing and reflecting the vigour of vegetation in an area between Ghana and the Republic of Centrafrica, where Italian swallows winter, predicted arrival date of individuals in consecutive breeding ...Breakthroughs lead to better understanding in prevention of transfusion-transmitted infection
...tion samples are confirmed by repeat WNV TMA on an index or alternative sample, as well as a supplemental PCR assay and donor follow-up. A total of 296 donations (0.043%) tested WNV reactive; 212 of these donors were confirmed as WNV infected (0.031%, 1:3,215) based on detection of WNV RNA by...