Non-invasive score identifies ultrasonography-diagnosed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and predicts mortality in the USA

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The beneficial effects of Qigong and conventional exercise on blood pressure and anthropometric indices in type 2 Chinese diabetic patients

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Up-regulation of aldose reductase activity in cultured mesangial cells overexpressing human aldose reductase gene is associated with increased TGF-beta1 and collagen IV expression

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Haplotypes in the urotensin II gene and urotensin II receptor gene are associated with insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance

We studied single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and haplotypes in the urotensin-II (UTS2) and urotensin-II receptor gene (UTS2R) in Hong Kong Chinese (224 hypertensive and 306 normotensive unrelated subjects) and their relation to hypertension and the metabolic syndrome. For UTS2, the GGT haplotype (-605G, 143G and 3836T) was associated with higher plasma level of U-II and insulin, and higher homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance index and β-cell function. For UTS2R, the AC haplotype (-11640A and -8515C) was associated with higher 2 h plasma glucose after a 75 g oral glucose load. Therefore, U-II and its receptor may play a role in insulin resistance. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.postprin

Cholesterol-induced mammary tumorigenesis is enhanced by adiponectin deficiency: role of LDL receptor upregulation

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The well-being of community-dwelling near-centenarians and centenarians in Hong Kong a qualitative study

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Bioavailable testosterone predicts a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease in older men: a 1-year cohort study

Oral Presentationpublished_or_final_versionThe 15th Annual Research Conference of the Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 16 January 2010. In Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2010, v. 16, suppl. 1, p. 16, abstract no. 1

Bilateral pheochromocytomas in MEN2A syndrome: a two-institution experience

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Sino-U.S. economic relations: problems and perspectives

U.S.-China economic relations are currently strained as a direct result of the Chinese crackdown of demonstrators in Tiananmen square on June 4, 1989. However, the brutal suppression of the demonstrators is only one aspect of the overall Sino-U.S. economic relationship. This thesis examines the economic relationship beginning in 1978, when China embarked on its modernization effort. Though China has made many improvements in these efforts their modernization effort does not necessarily coincide with United States' desires. Instead, China is concerned with maintaining its socialist character for the foreseeable future. This thesis examines divergent Sino-U.S. economic relations, and offers some various recommendations for American policy-makers depending on the course that China's leadership decides to take. Financial aid, Four modernizations, Most favored nation, New reforms, Reform, Socialism, Technology transfers, Trade relations, U.S. Policyhttp://archive.org/details/sinouseconomicre00kingLieutenant, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Circulating fibroblast growth factor 21 Is a sensitive biomarker for severe ischemia/reperfusion injury in patients with liver transplantation

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