Elevated blood Hg at recommended seafood consumption rates in adult seafood consumers

2014 ◽  
Vol 217 (7) ◽  
pp. 758-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxanne Karimi ◽  
Susan Silbernagel ◽  
Nicholas S. Fisher ◽  
Jaymie R. Meliker
Keyword(s):  
Seafood Consumption ◽  
Elevated Blood ◽  
Consumption Rates

Impacts of COVID-19 on patterns of meat and seafood consumption: evidence from Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rolfe ◽  
Darshana Rajapaksa ◽  
Jeremy De Valck ◽  
Megan Star
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Ordered Probit ◽  
Seafood Consumption ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Probit Models ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Future Consumption ◽  
Ordered Probit Models

PurposeIn 2020, mechanisms to limit the chain of transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Australia led to widespread restrictions on population mobility and business operations. Such conditions provide a natural experiment that may help to provide insights into consumer behaviour and future trends in food consumption. The overall objective of this study is to explore the possible impacts of COVID-19 on meat consumption patterns in Australia, both in the short and medium term, and to explore whether there have been impacts on the underlying drivers for consumption.Design/methodology/approachThe research reported in this paper analyses the impacts of COVID-19 on meat and seafood consumption in Australia, drawing on a national random survey of 1,200 participants in June 2020. Survey data on past and current consumption rates are compared to respondent estimates of their future consumption behaviour, and ordered probit models are used to identify whether consumption changes can be explained by socio-demographic, attitudinal or economic factors.FindingsTwo potential scenarios were evaluated to explore future consumption trends. The first “acceleration” scenario is that the restrictions would encourage people to speed up existing declines in meat consumption, perhaps taking more account of credence factors such as health, animal welfare and environmental issues. The second “transformation” scenario is that people will change consumption patterns, perhaps moving more towards home-cooked meals and increased consumption. Slightly stronger support was found for the transformation scenario, indicating that consumption rates for most meats and seafood will be stable or increase over the next five years.Originality/valueThis study capitalises on changed social and economic settings generated by COVID-19 to test the effects on consumption of meat (chicken, beef, pork, lamb) and seafood at a national level. Ordered probit models are applied to evaluate participant data on their future intentions for meat consumption to test two scenarios, finding stronger support for the “transformative” scenario than the “accelerate” scenario.

Decisive Diagnosis of Infected Mandibular Osteoradionecrosis with a Tc-99m-labelled Anti-granulocyte Fab′-fragment

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (07) ◽  
pp. 309-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Brenner ◽  
H. Terheyden ◽  
K. H. Bohuslavizki ◽  
E. Henze ◽  
W. U. Kampen
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pool ◽  
Bone Scanning ◽  
Acute Osteomyelitis ◽  
Elevated Blood ◽  
Fab Fragment ◽  
Postoperative Changes ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Golden Standard ◽  
Blood Pool Activity ◽  
Bone Inflammation

SummaryThe accepted golden standard for detection of inflammatory bone disease is conventional three-phase bone scanning. Hyperperfusion, a high blood-pool activity and elevated bone metabolism are typical signs for an acute osteomyelitis. However, in case of subacute, chronic inflammation, neither elevated blood flow nor high blood-pool activity may be seen. This may cause difficulties in differentiating such cases from neoplastic or postoperative changes. This case report verifies the possible advantage of immunoscintigraphy with Tc-99m-labelled antigranulocyte Fab′-fragments (LeukoScan®) in a patient with infected mandibular osteoradionecrosis, who had equivocal clinical symptomes and questionable radiographic results. LeukoScan® is shown to be more sensitive in case of subacute bone inflammation compared with three-phase bone scanning. However, acquisition of delayed images after 24 hours including SPECT is inevitable in case of negative scans during the first hours of investigation.

ROLE OF THE THYROID GLAND IN DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF RENAL HYPERTENSION IN RATS

1960 ◽  
Vol XXXIV (III) ◽  
pp. 411-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin J. Fregly ◽  
Kenneth M. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Rate Increase ◽  
Renal Hypertension ◽  
The Other ◽  
Elevated Blood Pressure ◽  
Unit Weight ◽  
Elevated Blood ◽  
Inhibition Of Growth ◽  
Testicular Size

ABSTRACT The anti-thyroid drugs, thiouracil, propylthiouracil, and methimazole, prevented both development of elevated blood pressure and cardiac hypertrophy usually accompanying kidney encapsulation with latex envelopes. These drugs also reduced elevated blood pressure of rats with hypertension of 13 to 40 weeks' duration prior to drug administration. Addition of desiccated thyroid powder to diet containing an anti-thyroid drug overcame the anti-hypertensive effect of the latter. Withdrawal of thyroid powder only was followed by return of blood pressure to previous low level within 3 weeks. The results suggest that the anti-hypertensive effect of these drugs is related directly to the hypothyroidism produced rather than to extrathyroidal effects of the drugs. Comparison of potencies of the 3 drugs in terms of anti-hypertensive effect, inhibition of growth rate, increase in testicular size, and increase in thyroid size suggests that propylthiouracil and methimazole are equally potent per unit weight of drug. Thiouracil has approximately half the potency of the other two.

1439-P: Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Dysfunction in Individuals with Diabetes or Elevated Blood Glucose in Four Large Cohorts

Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1439-P
Author(s):  
IDA WIUM-ANDERSEN ◽  
RUNGBY JØRGEN ◽  
MARTIN BALSLEV ◽  
JØ RGENSEN ◽  
MERETE OSLER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunction ◽  
Elevated Blood ◽  
Elevated Blood Glucose

Cereal Consumption, Production, and Prices in West Pakistan (Notes & Comments)

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Hufbauer
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Active Population ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Better Than

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several Punjab Settlement Officers attempted to estimate food consumption rates. These estimates, based on direct observation and ad hoc guesses, were made partly out of academic curiosity, but more urgently, as an aid in establishing the land revenue (i.e., tax) rates. The pre-1926 estimates are summarized in Table I, expressed in pounds of wheat and other foodgrain consumption per person per year1. Broadly speaking, the later, more systemtic observers (e.g., Sir Ganga Ram and C. B. Barry), found lower consumption levels than the earlier observers. It was generally accepted that the rural populace ate better than urban dwellers. Despite the ingenuity of the early Settlement Officers, their compiled estimates suffer from all the difficulties of haphazard small sample observation. Given the revenue purpose of the estimates, they may be biased towards the able-bodied, economically active, population. Further, the very early estimates may have confused dry weight with cooked weight, including water.

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