根据上文“Americans have been getting heavier, but researchers now say that our weight problem may be worse than we thought.”以及下文“While BMI is a simple ratio of a person’s height and weight”可知,体重指数(BMI)——严重低估了肥胖者的数量,尤其是女性。故选B项。【小题2】考查动词词义...
NHANES is a cross-sectional, population-based study that designed to assess Americans’ health and nutritional status. For a representative sample of the entire US population, NHANES employs a multistage, stratified random sampling method [22]. To date, few studies have analyzed the association betw...
根据“It is calculated that by the year 2230, the entire population of the USA will be dangerously overweight. Nine years ago only one in eight was obese (肥胖) . Nowadays in five Americans one is obese and the number continues to rise.”可知第一段主要介绍了美国肥胖人口的增长。故选C。
For example, Hwang et al11 found that male mice are more vulnerable than the females to the impacts of high-fat diet on weight gains, metabolic alterations, deficits of learning, and hippocampal synaptic plasticity. Another study based on the African Americans points out that obesity tends to ...
Subgroup analysis revealed that the positive association between Cd and FI was more pronounced among males; Mexican Americans; those with a poverty income ratio (PIR) > 2; individuals with college or above education; overweight participants; never-smokers; heavy drinkers; those with hypertension...
C. Americans think being fat is the new trend they should followD. Nancy Reagan is not popular because her body shape is not normal答案1.B.细节理解题.根据第四段 There are not a lot of obese people in New York, for instance, where traveling by car can take such a...
Conclusions In the obese population, SIRI and SII are independent risk factors for all-cause and CVD mortality. Notably, the predictive ability of SIRI for both all-cause and CVD mortality significantly outperforms that of SII, suggesting that SIRI is a more valuable marker of inflammation.Similar...
Previous studies in dementia epidemiology have reported higher Alzheimer's disease rates in African-Americans when compared with White Americans. To determ... D, Schlesinger,LT Grinberg,JG Alba,... 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 Serum and cerebrospinal fluid proteins and the blood-brain barrier in Alzhei...
Population stratification was corrected by the genotyping of 103 ancestry informative markers (AIMs) for Mexican Americans. Results: Both PNPLA3 SNPs showed highly significant association with alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, but was also, in males, associated with aspartate aminotransferase (AST)...
The numbers of informative relative pairs for the variance- components analysis by sex and ethnicity are shown in Table 2, and the phenotypic characteristics are summarized in Table 3. The mean BMI and standard deviation were largest in the African-American female sample. In the European-Americans...