Mortality and injuries caused by ship strikes in U.S. waters are a cause of concern for the endangered population of blue
whales (Balaenoptera musculus) occupying the eastern North Pacific. We sought to determine which areas along the U.S.
West Coast are most important to blue whales and whether those areas...
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Ladd M. Irvine1*, Bruce R. Mate1, Martha H. Winsor1, Daniel M. Palacios2,3¤, Steven J. Bograd3,
Daniel
An Expert Panel convened by the National Lipid Association previously developed a consensus set of recommendations for the patient-centered management of dyslipidemia in clinical medicine (part 1). These were guided by the principle that reducing elevated levels of atherogenic cholesterol (non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) reduces the risk...
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. Wild, MD, PhD, MPH, Scott M. Grundy, MD, PhD, Martha Daviglus, MD, PhD,
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD
Vitamin E improved liver histology in children and adults with NAFLD who participated in TONIC and PIVENS clinical trials,
but with significant inter-individual variability in its efficacy. Cytochrome P450 4F2 (CYP4F2) is the major enzyme
metabolizing Vit E, with two common genetic variants (V433M, rs2108622 and W12G, rs3093105) found to...
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, MHS; Michele Donithan,
MHS; Milana Isaacson, BS; Kevin P. May, MS; Laura Miriel, BS; Alice
Sternberg