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Use of leg length to height ratio to assess the risk of childhood overweight and obesity: results from a longitudinal cohort studyJian Liu
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 22:120-5. 2012..To determine whether leg-length to height ratio (LLHR) measured in children can be used to assess overweight and obese status 3 years later...
Is femur length the key height component in risk prediction of type 2 diabetes among adults?Jian Liu
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catherines, Ontario, Canada
Diabetes Care 32:739-40. 2009..To examine the diabetes risk association with femur length, standing height, and height without femur length (HWFL) (HWFL = standing height--femur length)...
Cardiovascular risk factors and anthropometric measurements of adolescent body composition: a cross-sectional analysis of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyJ Liu
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:59-64. 2007..To assess the association between certain cardiovascular risk factors that are commonly clustered among individuals with insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) and adolescents' body composition measurements...- Non-high-density lipoprotein and very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and their risk predictive values in coronary heart diseaseJian Liu
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Am J Cardiol 98:1363-8. 2006..In conclusion, these results suggest that non-HDL cholesterol level is a stronger predictor of CHD risk than LDL cholesterol; that is, VLDL cholesterol may play a critical role in the development of CHD... - Non-high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular risk factors among adolescents with and without impaired fasting glucoseJian Liu
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON L2S3A1, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 34:136-42. 2009..Thus, the levels of non-HDL cholesterol may be an important indicator in monitoring cardiovascular disease risk among adolescents with IFG... - Sleep difficulties and obesity among preadolescentsJian Liu
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Ave, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
Can J Public Health 102:139-43. 2011..To determine if sleep difficulties are associated with overweight/obesity status among preadolescents... - Joint distribution of non-HDL and LDL cholesterol and coronary heart disease risk prediction among individuals with and without diabetesJian Liu
Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Diabetes Care 28:1916-21. 2005..To assess coronary heart disease (CHD) risk within levels of the joint distribution of non-HDL and LDL cholesterol among individuals with and without diabetes... - Serum 25OH vitamin D level, femur length, and risk of type 2 diabetes among adultsJian Liu
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON L25 3A1, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 36:264-70. 2011..Both 25(OH)D and FL are independently associated with diabetes risk in adults. However, the novel hypothesis of this association needs further research... - Foetal nutritional status and cardiovascular risk profile among childrenJian Liu
Department of Community Health Sciences, AS 309, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1
Public Health Nutr 10:1067-75. 2007..To estimate the impact of foetal nutritional status on cardiovascular risk among children with the Foetal Nutritional Status Index (FNSI), calculated by dividing the child's birth weight (BW, kg) by the mother's height (m2)... - A prospective cohort study comparing workload in children with and without developmental coordination disorderIrina Rivilis
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada
Res Dev Disabil 33:442-8. 2012..This adds to the argument suggesting that interventions intended to improve CRF may be appropriate and necessary for children with motor difficulties... - Association between body composition and conformity to the recommendations of Canada's Food Guide and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet in peri-adolescenceSamantha Hajna
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Public Health Nutr 15:1890-6. 2012..The present study assessed how conformity to the recommendations of these diets was associated with BMI, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist girth (WG), hip girth (HG) and risk of overweight in peri-adolescents... - Physical activity and fitness in children with developmental coordination disorder: a systematic reviewIrina Rivilis
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Res Dev Disabil 32:894-910. 2011..However, differences in flexibility were not conclusive as the results on this parameter are mixed. Studies' limitations and the impact of results on future work are discussed... - Characteristics and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among three ethnic groups in CanadaJ Liu
Department of Public Health Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:669-76. 2006..Given the diverse nature of these populations, careful consideration should be given to developing culturally appropriate community-based prevention strategies aimed at reducing the frequency of this syndrome... - Birth order and sexual orientation in men: evidence for two independent interactionsAnthony F Bogaert
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada
J Biosoc Sci 38:811-9. 2006..If these findings prove reliable, it raises the possibility that different aetiological factors underlie the birth order/sexual orientation relationship in men... - Mice body weight gain is prevented after naked human leptin cDNA transfer into skeletal muscle by electroporationXue-Dong Wang
National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China
J Gene Med 5:966-76. 2003..CONCLUSION: The present study provides evidence of successful electroporation of naked plasmid DNA transfer for prevention or treatment of mice obesity... - A risk-predictive score for cardiogenic shock after acute myocardial infarction in Chinese patientsMin Zhang
Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Medical Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650032, PR China
Clin Cardiol 30:171-6. 2007..The goal of this study is to develop a risk-predictive score for cardiogenic shock after AMI, among Chinese patients, so as to guide clinicians to prevent cardiogenic shock... - Electron transfer dissociation of doubly sodiated glycerophosphocholine lipidsXiaorong Liang
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 2084, USA
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 18:1783-8. 2007.... - Cathepsin L activity controls adipogenesis and glucose toleranceMin Yang
Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Nat Cell Biol 9:970-7. 2007..Increased levels of CatL in obese and diabetic patients suggest that this protease is a novel target for these metabolic disorders... - Safety and efficacy of the CYPHER Select Sirolimus-eluting stent in the "Real World"--clinical and angiographic results from the China CYPHER Select registryRun lin Gao
Chinese Society of Cardiology, China
Int J Cardiol 125:339-46. 2008..This post-marketing surveillance registry is aimed at determining the safety and reliability of the CYPHER Select Sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) in routine clinical practice... - Value of echocardiography for observing left ventricular hypertrophy in the diagnosis of myocardial microvascular damage in hypertensivesDong sheng Chi
Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, First Military Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
Di Yi Jun Yi Da Xue Xue Bao 23:702-5. 2003..To investigate the value of the echocardiographic observation of the left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in diagnosing myocardial microvascular damage in patients with essential hypertension (EH)... - Clinicopathological significance of heparanase and basic fibroblast growth factor expression in human esophageal cancerBiao Han
First Affiliated Hospital, Lanzhou, Medical College, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, China
World J Gastroenterol 11:2188-92. 2005..The expression of heparanase in esophageal carcinoma enhances growth, invasion, and angiogenesis of the tumor, and bFGF seems to be a potent antigenic factor for esophageal carcinoma... - Elevation of the Hsp70 chaperone does not effect toxicity in mouse models of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosisJian Liu
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093, USA
J Neurochem 93:875-82. 2005..Therefore, increasing Hsp70 to a level that is protective in mouse models of acute ischemic insult and selected neurodegenerative disorders is not sufficient to ameliorate mutant SOD1-mediated toxicity... - Comparison of 3D joint moments using local and global inverse dynamics approaches among three different age groupsJian Liu
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Gait Posture 23:480-5. 2006..It is concluded that coordinate system need to be carefully chosen, and specified in 3D joint moment analysis, while significant error introduced by using 2D analysis need to be considered... - Increased serum cathepsin S in patients with atherosclerosis and diabetesJian Liu
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Atherosclerosis 186:411-9. 2006..Although the pathophysiology of cathepsin S or cystatin C in atherosclerosis and diabetes requires further investigation, increased serum cathepsin S may serve as a biomarker for both diseases... - Niemann-Pick C1 protein facilitates the efflux of the anticancer drug daunorubicin from cells according to a novel vesicle-mediated pathwayYuping Gong
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA
J Pharmacol Exp Ther 316:242-7. 2006..Collectively, this work proposes a novel role for NPC1 in a vesicle-mediated pathway responsible for the clearance of drugs from cells and provides an explanation for a drug sequestration phenotype exhibited by the MDR HL-60 cell line... - An epidemiologic study of posttraumatic stress disorder in flood victims in Hunan ChinaAizhong Liu
School of Public Health, Center South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Can J Psychiatry 51:350-4. 2006..To estimate the occurrence and to assess the determinants of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in flood victims... - Stretch-sensitive KCNQ1 mutation A link between genetic and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation?Robyn Otway
Sr Bernice Research Program in Inherited Heart Diseases, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
J Am Coll Cardiol 49:578-86. 2007..This study sought to evaluate mutations in genes encoding the slow component of the cardiac delayed rectifier K+ current (I(Ks)) channel in familial atrial fibrillation (AF)... - [Discrepancy between the blood flow in hyperperfused epicardial coronary vessels and myocardial microcirculation following reperfusion: a study in canines]Jin-hua Feng
Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, First Military Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
Di Yi Jun Yi Da Xue Xue Bao 23:591-4. 2003....