Young Again [Season 2 – Ch. 2]
Background: Atherosclerosis begins in childhood and develops silently for decades before clinical events such as myocardial infarction or stroke occur. Only few studies have evaluated the relationship between CVD risk factors and carotid artery Intimal Media Thickness (IMT) in young asymptomatic people.
Young Again [Season 2 – Ch. 2]
Methods: A cohort of 106 healthy young men, mean age 21 2 years (mean SD), BMI 24.4 2.8 (kg/m(2)), on military duty, participated in this cross-sectional study. Waist circumference, carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), blood pressure, and plasma concentrations of relevant metabolic parameters were measured at fasting. Smoking and habitual dietary patterns were evaluated by a semiquantitative questionnaire.
Conclusions: In a non-selected sample of healthy young adult males, a larger waist circumference and a higher diastolic blood pressure - albeit within normal values - are the only parameters independently associated with higher IMT.
Giving fewer antibiotic injections to young infants in the developing world with severe infections such as pneumonia and sepsis is just as safe and effective as the standard course of twice daily injections over the course of a week, according to new Johns Hopkins School of Public Health research conducted in Bangladesh.
"But at least in young postmenopausal women at increased risk of osteoporosis, HRT can be a very effective first-line treatment, provided the woman has no contraindications and it can be continued for at least 5 and maybe even 10 years."
We are very thankful for the hospitality, warm atmosphere and excellent organisation to our hosts- the Turkish Athletics Federation and are looking forward to the Balkan Indoor Championships this Saturday again in Atakoy Athletics Arena!
This year Balkans are competing against the teams of Ukraine, Poland, China, Japan, USA and of course France. The competition attracts thousands of spectators on the stadium and is followed by sports fans around the world. It can be watched online here
No doubt the biggest star of the competition was Ivana Spanovic (Balkan Athlete of the Year 2016). The gorgeous Serb improved the world leading result for the season before she was stopped at 6.96, which was a strong request for the European title in a few days.
The reforms in IAAF governance structure got a strong support from the Special Congress in Monaco where 95% of the member federations voted in favour of the proposed new constitution. Dobromir Karamarinov gave a comprehensible speech before the vote encouraging the audience to embrace change as we need to win trust again to secure a new chapter for athletics.
Ivana Spanovic started the season with a silver medal in long jump at the World Indoor Championships in Portland where she set a national record of 7.07. She won the European gold in Amsterdam and completed the series with a bronze in Rio and a new national record of 7.08. At the end of the season she won the Diamond League and improved the national record once more to 7.10 in her home country. This is the third time for Spanovic to receive the award after having been Balkan Athlete of the Year for 2013 and 2015.
Rising Star Emmanouil Karalis, who was only 16 years old when he did his performances made an amazing season. He set a World Youth Record of 5.53i in February in Pireas, a month later he improved it to 5.54i in Jablonec, then corrected it once more to 5.55 in May in Ostrava. Karalis is the First European U18 Champion from Tbilisi 2016.
Dobromir Karamarinov gave a plaque of gratitude to HH Sheikh Al Maktoom for his continuous support to athletics. On his turn he received a sign of appreciation from GCC Athletics President Ahmed Al Kamali. Next Balkan Athletics Gala will take place on 16 November 2017 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria and will be a common activity with GCC again.
Turkish Junior lady Gulnaz Uskun started the golden series in a battle with Bulgarian Silviya Georgieva. Gulnaz covered the 4km distance in 13:49, while Georgieva finished shortly behind her in 13:53. Third and fourth place were again taken by Turkish girls - Yayla Kilic (14:13) and Pinar Demirtas (14:14). Turkey won the Team Ranking with 8 points ahead of Romania, 24 and Croatia, 36.The Junior Men 6km race repeated same story as two athletes named Ramazan - Barbaros (18: 07) and Karagoz (18:15) came in first and third position. Between them was Romanian Andrei Dorin Rusu (18:08). Here the Israeli team was involved with naturalized Ethiopian athletes, but it brought them only third place in the team standings after Turkey and Romania.
In the women's race Balkan Champion Perunovich (MNE) bested Croatian Nikolina Sustic with 2:49:20 against 2:50:24. The third place was for Radosveta Simeonova (BUL), which started with ambitions for the title, but in the second half of the distance reduced her speed and by a huge effort managed to keep the bronze position finishing with a personal best of 2:56:29.
In the track, Albanian middle-distance dinamo Luiza Gega also crowned fourth Balkan Indoor title after superb solo run. Gega clocked 4:06.89 on her way of victory, second best time in this distance during European winter season behind Netherland's Siffan Hassan.
Another eye-catching performance drawing by Andrea Ivancevic, who duplicated last year's feat again. She won 60 metres title in 7.32 despite running low-profile C final, then shines again in hurdles end of the show. The 30-year old Croat repeated her own 2015 feat, when claiming gold in both 60 metres final, hurdles and flat.
Romania, most successful country of the Balkan Athletics history, topped again the medal table by 16 medals (seven golds, seven silvers, two bronze) ahead of Turkish team. 400 metres runner Adelina Pastor (53.23), shot putter Andrei Gag (20.40m) and Mihai Donisan (2.23m) in high jump was amongst the winners circle in Istanbul.
Many herpesviruses infect only a few animal species. Elephants also have their own spectrum of herpesviruses, which can cause infections that end in death. Asian elephants are carriers of virus types1, 4 and 5, while African elephants carry types 2, 3 and 6. Type 1 is particularly dangerous for young Asian elephants and has led to numerous deaths in the wild and in zoos worldwide. In Switzerland as well, three animals have died of "Elephant Herpes" in the last 30 years. How the elephants transmit the disease, however, and how they become infected, has been largely unknown until now.
Probiotics have been safely administered to subjects with HIV, have alleviated GI symptoms associated with viral replication, have proven active against bacterial vaginosis in HIV-infected women, and have enhanced growth in infants with congenitally acquired infection (6). However, the effects of probiotics on the mucosal immune environment in HIV-infected patients are currently unknown.
But is this reconstitution clinically important? As the case illustrates, many patients infected with HIV are not considered to be at average risk for colorectal cancer. HIV-infected patients have been shown to have a higher prevalence of colon cancer, to develop adenocarcinomas at a younger age, and to develop more aggressive lesions compared with HIV-uninfected controls (8). They also have a predilection toward developing right-sided adenomas that may escape colonoscopic detection and result in delays in diagnosis and care. The increased prevalence of GI cancer in HIV is not limited to the colon; recent data suggest that patients with AIDS are at increased risk for esophageal and gastric carcinoma as well (9). These features may be due to a lack of appropriate host immune surveillance in the gut, increased intestinal inflammation and reactive oxygen species associated with the immunopathogenic effect of HIV, and/or the presence of certain opportunistic enteropathogens. Despite these findings, national and societal guidelines do not currently recommend earlier or more frequent screening colonoscopies in HIV-infected patients (10).
King Zheng of Qin conquered the last of his opponents and unified China as the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty ("Qin Shi Huang") in 221 BC. Intending to impose centralized rule and prevent the resurgence of feudal lords, he ordered the destruction of the sections of the walls that divided his empire among the former states. To position the empire against the Xiongnu people from the north, however, he ordered the building of new walls to connect the remaining fortifications along the empire's northern frontier. "Build and move on" was a central guiding principle in constructing the wall, implying that the Chinese were not erecting a permanently fixed border.[25]
Transporting the large quantity of materials required for construction was difficult, so builders always tried to use local resources. Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains. There are no surviving historical records indicating the exact length and course of the Qin walls. Most of the ancient walls have eroded away over the centuries, and very few sections remain today. The human cost of the construction is unknown, but it has been estimated by some authors that hundreds of thousands[26] workers died building the Qin wall. Later, the Han,[27] the Northern dynasties and the Sui all repaired, rebuilt, or expanded sections of the Great Wall at great cost to defend themselves against northern invaders.[28] The Tang and Song dynasties did not undertake any significant effort in the region.[28] Dynasties founded by non-Han ethnic groups also built their border walls: the Xianbei-ruled Northern Wei, the Khitan-ruled Liao, Jurchen-led Jin and the Tangut-established Western Xia, who ruled vast territories over Northern China throughout centuries, all constructed defensive walls but those were located much to the north of the other Great Walls as we know it, within China's autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and in modern-day Mongolia itself.[29] 041b061a72