Decreased erythrocyte aggregation in Glenn and Fontan: univentricular circulation as a rheologic disease model.

Background: In the Fontan palliation for single ventricle heart disease (SVHD), pulmonary blood flow is non-pulsatile/passive, low velocity, and low shear, making viscous power loss a critical determinant of cardiac output. The rheologic properties of blood in SVHD patients are essential for understanding and modulating their limited cardiac output and they have not been systematically studied. We hypothesize that viscosity is decreased in single ventricle circulation.

Blood Rheology and Hemodynamics.

(STH) celebrates 50 years of publishing in 2024. To celebrate this landmark event, STH is republishing some archival material. This article represents the most highly cited paper ever published in STH.

Commentary: Changes in eating and changes in affect during early Covid confinement.

This commentary discusses papers dealing with responses to the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020. The papers focus on healthy eating and drinking, with less emphasis on unhealthy eating and drinking and resulting weight gain. This helps us to understand the initial eating responses to stress.

The Use of Demographics and Psychographics to Study Product Effects with Nutrient Supplements: Exploratory Multi-Country Data.

Demographics and psychographics are used to study the influence of different consumers on product effects in food development and testing. Demographics have a longer history and are routinely used in most research; psychographics are more recent, raising the question of whether they add to research on food products. The research presented here represents extensive exploratory data that demonstrate that both demographic measures and psychographic measures add to our understanding of consumer's liking ratings for nutrient supplements.