Written informed consent has been obtained from the patients. Results Men presented higher BP levels compared to women (SBP: 137 (15) mmHg for men vs. 124 (16) mmHg for women p < 0.001 and DBP: 84 (8) mmHg for men vs. 79 (8) mmHg for women, p < 0.001), higher propor...
The two major circulatory systems of blood and lymphatic vasculature are discretely distributed throughout the body. While the former provides tissues with oxygen and nutrients, the latter drains the interstitial fluid from the tissue spaces to return it to the bloodstream1, transports immune cells, ...
Black, and Hispanic) in TOPMed. We calculated trait heritability using Greml-LDMS38following the steps as implemented by Wainschtein et al.39. Using the TOPMed WGS, we grouped the variants into 4 MAF
Introducing the drag coefficient γ, which is proportional to viscosity, η, and an effective shear modulus of the aggregate, G, the viscous and elastic torques are written as τη = γdφη/dt and τG = γG φG/η, where φη and φG are the rotation angles associated ...
The patients provided a written informed consent under the premises of the original CSPPT trial, including the possibility of post hoc analyses. This trial was registered with Clinicaltrials.gov (#NCT00794885). All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. At...
The code for the CPACOR analysis pipeline was adapted from Lehne et. al.17which was developed and written by Benjamin Lehne (Imperial College London) and Alexander Drong (Oxford University). The code for the low-level quality control was developed and written by Alexander Teumer (University Med...
(Table1), all of the other participants were considered to be disease-free. Every 4 years from 2008 to 2016, all participants, who were fully informed of the nature of the study and provided written informed consent to participate, were registered. The study protocol was approved by the ...
Originally, the HARVEY GPU code was written to run only on NVIDIA* devices. To take advantage of the compute capability of upcoming exascale machines such as Aurora, powered by theIntel® Data Center GPU Max Series, we ported the code to run across multiple GPU node architectur...
Informed consent in written form was collected from all subjects. All investigations were conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and subsequent legal instruments. Ethical approval was provided by the University Hospital Osijek Ethics Committtee (No. 25–1:831–3/2015). DNA ...
All participants provided written informed consent prior to participation. Procedures and interventions Procedures One week before the formal experiment after the group assignment, the participants were informed to wear comfortable sportswear and shoes to the laboratory for a VO2max test to determine the...