Rheumatoid arthritis, Lipids, Cardiovascular disease, Lipid metabolismIn rheumatoid arthritis (RA), lipid levels are dynamic and can fluctuate along with changes in inflammation. A reduction in inflammation, most commonly as a result of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy, is ...
Discuss the macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates and lipids) and define and describe them in terms of: What does "reducing" sugar mean in scientific terms? What makes carbohydrates different from other organic molecules? What makes a bad carbohydrate 'bad'?
Have you ever wondered what the doctor is measuring when he does a lipid screen? Or why a lipid screen is even necessary to begin with? In this lesson, you will learn about how fats and lipids travel through your body and what those numbers really mean. ...
Describe the structure of the cell membrane. What are the lipids found in the cell membrane and what are their functions? In biology, what is a cell membrane and its functions? How does the phospholipid bilayer maintain separation between inside and outside the cell? (a) A negative charge ...
After adjustment for age, education, lipids, body mass index, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, treatment for hypercholesterolemia, sex, and scanning center, compared with whites, the relative risks for having coronary calcification in women was 0.78 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.74 to 0.82) ...
Does that mean you’ll get amazing fuel economy with zero emissions? Not quite. A gallon of E85 ethanol contains 80,000 BTU of energy compared with 124,800 BTU for the same amount of gasoline. That means you would have to buy 1.56 gallons of E85 for every gallon of regular gasoline. ...
Risk refers to the odds that something will occur, but there are no guarantees. Having one or more risk factors does not mean heart disease is inevitable. Similarly, absence of risk factors does not guarantee you will not have heart disease. Monitoring and modifying certain risk factors is the...
gallstones, on the other hand, usually does contain cholesterol crystals, and its nucleation time, when incubated, is much more rapid (mean of 2.9 days). Nucleation of cholesterol occurs far more rapidly from gallbladder bile of patients with cholesterol ...
What does the ratio number mean on down products? You may see numbers such as 90/10 or 85/15 assigned to down products. These indicate the respective percentages of down to feather in the insulating mix, with the first number being the down percentage, and the second number the feather pe...
Glucose and Fructose are isomers. What does that mean?Carbohydrates:The main categories of organic molecules are proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids. Glucose and fructose come under the category of carbohydrates that act as the primary energy source for the human body....