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Open AccessGender-specific impacts of thigh skinfold thickness and grip strength for predicting osteoporosis in type 2 diabetes
Diabetes with co-existing bone fragility or osteoporosis is common in elderly patients, whereas is frequently underestimated.
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Open AccessDiscrimination between possible sarcopenia and metabolic syndrome using the arterial pulse spectrum and machine-learning analysis
Sarcopenia is defined as decreased skeletal muscle mass and function, and is an important cause of frailty in the elderly, also being associated with vascular lesions and poor microcirculation. The present stu...
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Open AccessAtherogenic index of plasma as predictors for metabolic syndrome, hypertension and diabetes mellitus in Taiwan citizens: a 9-year longitudinal study
Deeply involved with dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease has becoming the leading cause of mortality since the early twentieth century in the modern world. Whose correlation with metabolic syndrome (MetS), hy...
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Social Commerce: The Mediating Effects of Trust and Value Co-creation on Social Sharing and Shop** Intentions
As social media developed rapidly all over the world, online customers tend to seek advices before making purchase decisions. Yet little known is about how social media community members would influence each o...
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Transferring Customers Trust and Loyalty on Offline Banks Towards Online Payment Platforms in Integrated Ecosystem
Cashless society is becoming popular due to the advanced development of technology. The ubiquity of mobile payment is astounding. Consumers have shifting from physical to mobile payment, making payment process...
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Customer Participation in Creating Customer Satisfaction: An Abstract
The traditional mode of service typically represents a one-way delivery when people receive the service just the way the company distributes it to them. However, customer participation promptly emerges during ...
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Open AccessNeutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as predictor for incident hypertension: a 9-year cohort study in Taiwan
The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has received much attention in recent decades and has been a novel inflammatory marker. NLR has been applied in predicting the prognosis of malignancies, mortality, and...
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Open AccessAssociation between HOMA-IR and Frailty among U.S. Middle-aged and Elderly Population
Previous literatures revealed that homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was one of the cardio-metabolic risk factors. This study was conducted to access the association between H...
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Open AccessExploring the Link between Serum Phosphate Levels and Low Muscle Strength, Dynapenia, and Sarcopenia
Emerging evidences addressed an association between phosphate and muscle function. Because little attention was focused on this issue, the objective of our study was to explore the relationship of phosphate wi...
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Investigating the mincing method for isolation of adipose-derived stem cells from pregnant women fat
The success of stem cell application in regenerative medicine, usually require a stable source of stem or progenitor cells. Fat tissue represents a good source of stem cells because it is rich in stem cells an...
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Association between frailty and a measure of cognition: a cross-sectional study on community-dwelling older adults
Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that is generally represented as a universal issue in the aging population and may lead to adverse health-related events. The most widely used definition of frailty was proposed...
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Open AccessHigher Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Increased the Risk of Sarcopenia in the Community-Dwelling Older Adults
The platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) has been extensively studied in oncologic diseases. However, the correlation between PLR and sarcopenia remains unknown. In this cross-sectional analysis, we enrolled 3,6...
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Open AccessCalf Circumference as a Novel Tool for Risk of Disability of the Elderly Population
Disability became increasingly common with age, and crude rates of disability were rising around the globe. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between calf circumference (CC) and disabili...
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Open AccessMid-Arm Circumference and All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality among Obese and Non-Obese US Adults: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III
Epidemiological studies have shown that mid-arm circumference (MAC) can be used to predict death risk and malnutrition. We performed a retrospective observational study involving 11,958 US participants aged 20...
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Open AccessGender Differences in the Association between Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Hearing Threshold Shifts
Hearing loss is a global public health problem with a high prevalence, significantly impairing communication and leading to a decrease in the quality of life. The association between moderate alcohol consumpti...
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Open AccessSecondhand Smoke is Associated with Hearing Threshold Shifts in Obese Adults
Hearing loss resulted from multiple intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Secondhand smoke (SHS) and obesity had been reported to be related to hearing loss. This study explored the possible associations of SHS and...
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Open AccessComponents of Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Disability among the Elderly Population
The direct relationship between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and function disability has not been established. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between MetS and functional disabili...
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Cross-buying Evaluations: The Moderating Role of Category Similarity
Research in service marketing has recognized the role of cross-buying as a measurement of relationship enhancement, development and extensions. Thus, an important issue is why cross-buying has turned out to be...
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Open AccessMitogenomic sequences effectively recover relationships within brush-footed butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
Mitogenomic phylogenies have revealed well-supported relationships for many eukaryote groups. In the order Lepidoptera, 113 species mitogenomes had been sequenced (May 14, 2014). However, these data are restri...
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Difference of antihypertensive prescribing between office- and hospital-based clinics in Taiwan
Background The geographical location and medical facility may affect the pattern of antihypertensive prescriptions. Information regarding the correlation between the prescription and health care ...
