Prediction of lamb body composition using in vivo bioimpedance analysis

The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of in vivo bioimpedance analysis (BIA) as a method to estimate body composition in lambs. Thirty-one Texel x Ile de France crossbreed ram lambs were slaughtered at pre-determined intervals of average weights of 20, 26, 32, and 38 kg. Before the slaughter of the animals, their body weight (BW) and body length (BL) were measured. The values for resistance (Rs) and reactance (Xc) were collected using a single-frequency BIA equipment (Model RJL Quantum II Bioelectrical Body Composition Analyzer). The BIA main variables such as body bioelectrical volume (V), phase angle (PA), resistive density (RsD), and reactive density (XcD) were then calculated. The soft tissue mass of the right-half cold carcass was analyzed in order to determine its chemical composition. Multiple regression analyses were performed using the lamb body composition as dependent variables and the measurements related to bioimpedance as independent variables. The best regression models were evaluated by cross-validation. The predictive model of moisture mass, which was developed by using XcD and V, accounted for 84% of its variation. Resulting models of percentage moisture (R2 = 0.79), percentage lean mass (R2 = 0.79), percentage fat (R2 = 0.79), and fat mass (R2 = 0.87) were obtained using RsD and V. Furthermore, the values of RsD regarding V, and PA in the prediction models accounted for 91% and 89% of variation in protein mass and lean mass, respectively. Bioimpedance analysis proved to be an efficient method to estimate the body composition of lambs slaughtered at different body mass stages

Risk profiles and one-year outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in India: Insights from the GARFIELD-AF Registry.

BACKGROUND: The Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation (GARFIELD-AF) is an ongoing prospective noninterventional registry, which is providing important information on the baseline characteristics, treatment patterns, and 1-year outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). This report describes data from Indian patients recruited in this registry. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 52,014 patients with newly diagnosed AF were enrolled globally; of these, 1388 patients were recruited from 26 sites within India (2012-2016). In India, the mean age was 65.8 years at diagnosis of NVAF. Hypertension was the most prevalent risk factor for AF, present in 68.5% of patients from India and in 76.3% of patients globally (P < 0.001). Diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) were prevalent in 36.2% and 28.1% of patients as compared with global prevalence of 22.2% and 21.6%, respectively (P < 0.001 for both). Antiplatelet therapy was the most common antithrombotic treatment in India. With increasing stroke risk, however, patients were more likely to receive oral anticoagulant therapy [mainly vitamin K antagonist (VKA)], but average international normalized ratio (INR) was lower among Indian patients [median INR value 1.6 (interquartile range {IQR}: 1.3-2.3) versus 2.3 (IQR 1.8-2.8) (P < 0.001)]. Compared with other countries, patients from India had markedly higher rates of all-cause mortality [7.68 per 100 person-years (95% confidence interval 6.32-9.35) vs 4.34 (4.16-4.53), P < 0.0001], while rates of stroke/systemic embolism and major bleeding were lower after 1 year of follow-up. CONCLUSION: Compared to previously published registries from India, the GARFIELD-AF registry describes clinical profiles and outcomes in Indian patients with AF of a different etiology. The registry data show that compared to the rest of the world, Indian AF patients are younger in age and have more diabetes and CAD. Patients with a higher stroke risk are more likely to receive anticoagulation therapy with VKA but are underdosed compared with the global average in the GARFIELD-AF. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION-URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01090362

Cidades para Nós - envolver comunidades e cidadãos no desenvolvimento sustentável: Livro de Atas

The city is an imagined and drawn space, a densified and volumetric landscape. But it is also a living space, and is memory, work and leisure, tradition and innovation, technology and capital markets; an asymmetric mosaic of wealth and misery, abundance and deprivation, inclusion and exclusion; a place of arrival, both to migrants and tourists, and for people seeking new opportunities. The city is, first and foremost, people! To build a city of citizens -a city for us -is a purpose and a greatest responsibility of a collective effort including elected officials, administration, technicians, business and citizens. This is why public participation in urban planning processes -from diagnosis to strategy and the intervention proposal -should become a more effective practice. Sustainable spatial planning and urban design are keys to human well being. We need a new vision of cities and regions for sustainable urban life after human-cause or natural crisis. Many of the decisions made today will have long-term consequences, and we are certain that we must strive towards creating more inclusive and healthy cities, that are more green and sustainable, more innovative and smart, with greater support for leisure and tourism, economically more robust, and supplying more and better jobs, with inclusive governance models, opening a new era where cities are more livable, effective, competitive, attractive, learning, equitable, and resilient.A cidade é um espaço imaginado e desenhado, uma paisagem densificada e volumétrica. Mas também é um espaço vivo, é memória, trabalho e lazer, tradição e inovação, tecnologia e mercado de capitais; um mosaico assimétrico de riqueza e miséria, abundância e privação, inclusão e exclusão; um lugar de chegada, tanto para migrantes como para turistas, assim como para as pessoas que procuram novas oportunidades. A cidade é, acima de tudo, gente! Construir uma cidade dos cidadãos -uma cidade para nós -é um propósito e uma grande responsabilidade de um esforço coletivo, incluindo funcionários eleitos, administração, técnicos, empresas e cidadãos. É por isso que a participação pública em processos de planeamento urbano -desde o diagnóstico para a estratégia até à proposta de intervenção deve tornar-se uma prática mais eficaz. O ordenamento do território e urbanismo sustentáveis são fundamentais para o bem estar humano. Precisamos de uma nova visão de cidades e regiões para a vida urbana sustentável em contextos de crise de origem humana/natural. Muitas das decisões tomadas hoje terão consequências a longo prazo, e estamos certos de que nos devemos esforçar para a criação de cidades mais inclusivas e saudáveis, mais verdes e sustentáveis, mais inovadoras e inteligentes, com um maior apoio ao lazer e turismo, economicamente mais robustas,e fornecedoras de mais e melhores empregos, com modelos de governança inclusivos, abrindo uma nova era onde as cidades são mais habitáveis, eficazes, competitivas, atraentes, equitativas e resilientes.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio