Overall, their cancer rates appear to be moderately lower
than others living in the same communities, and life expectancy appears to be greater. However, results for specific cancers are much less convincing and require more study. There is evidence that risk of colorectal cancer is lower in vegetarians and in those who eat less meat; however, results from British vegetarians presently disagree, and this needs explanation. It is probable that using the label “”vegetarian”" as a dietary category is too broad and that our understanding will be served well by dividing vegetarians into more descriptive sub-types. Although vegetarian diets are healthful and www.selleckchem.com/products/Temsirolimus.html are associated with lower risk of several chronic diseases, different types of vegetarians may not experience the same effects on health. Am J Clin Nutr 2009; 89(suppl): 1607S-12S.”
“Although frailty was originally
a medical concept, nowadays more and more researchers are convinced of its multidimensional nature, including a psychological and social domain of frailty as well as a physical domain. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that the prediction of quality of life by physical frailty components is improved by adding psychological and social frailty components.
This cross-sectional P505-15 cost study was carried out with a sample of Dutch citizens. A total of 1,031 people aged 65 years and older completed a Web-based questionnaire containing the Tilburg Frailty Indicator for measuring physical, psychological, and social frailty, and the WHOQOL-BREF for measuring four quality of life domains (physical health, psychological, social relations, environmental).
The findings show that the prediction of all quality of life domains by eight physical components of frailty was improved after adding four psychological and three social frailty components. The psychological frailty component ‘feeling down’ significantly improved the prediction SHP099 of all four quality of life domains, after controlling for the effects of background characteristics and all other frailty components.
This study emphasizes
the importance of a multidimensional assessment of frailty in the prediction of quality of life in older people.”
“The isothermal magnetization curves were carried out on magnetically aligned powder of the SmCo4Ga and SmCo4Al samples; they have been measured at 4.2 K in applied field up to 33 T produced by a water-cooled resistive magnet. The intrinsic magnetic properties such as saturation magnetization, anisotropy constant, and anisotropy field have been derived. Whereas some properties, such as the saturation magnetization or the Curie temperature are found to be strongly reduced upon Ga or Al for Co substitution, on the contrary the magnetocrystalline anisotropy is much larger for the substituted compounds.