Remnant cholesterol and all-cause mortality risk: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2003-2015.

Aims: Cholesterol carried in triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, also called remnant cholesterol, is increasingly acknowledged as an important causal risk factor for atherosclerosis. Elevated remnant cholesterol, marked by elevated plasma triglycerides, is associated causally with an increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. However, the association with all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality is inconclusive.

Development of alginate hydrogel/gum Arabic/gelatin based composite capsules and their application as oral delivery carriers for antioxidant.

We have designed microcapsules-immobilized composite capsules and evaluated the oral delivery efficacy. The composite capsules were developed by encapsulating Perinereis aibuhitensis extract (PaE), a model substance possessing antioxidant activity, loaded gum Arabic/gelatin microcapsules in calcium alginate (CA) hydrogel (PaE:CA/GA/GE-CCs). In vitro antioxidant assay showed the obtained composite capsules were able to protect PaE from gastric acid, since O scavenging rate of encapsulated PaE was about 1.

Multifunctional chitosan/dopamine/diatom-biosilica composite beads for rapid blood coagulation.

Uncontrollable bleeding is the main cause of death in wars and accidents. The development of emergency material for rapid hemostatic can effectively reduce bleeding-related death. The commercial hemostatic materials available in the market are difficult to meet requirements of rapid hemostasis, good biocompatibility, low cost and ease of use.

[Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) and Relationship with Dissolved Heavy Metals in a Peri-urban and an Urban River].

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is ubiquitous in the aquatic environment, playing an important role in the fate of heavy metals in aquatic systems. In this study, we characterized the DOM and heavy metals and their distribution in a peri-urban river and an urban river in Ningbo city. In addition, the relationship between DOM and dissolved heavy metals was also determined.

[Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter and Its Correlation with Water Quality in a Urban River: A Case Study of the Lujiang River in Beilun, Ningbo].

Excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy combined with fluorescence regional integration (FRI) analysis were adopted to analyze the water samples collected from the Lujiang River, which flows through the rapidly urbanizing areas of Beilun, Ningbo, in order to illuminate the composition and characteristics of the spatial distribution of fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM), and further to explain its correlation with water quality in the urban river. The results showed that FDOM was composed of tyrosine-like, tryptophan-like, soluble microbial by-product-like, fulvic-like, and humic-like materials, and FDOM was dominated by protein-like components, accounting for 83.8% of the total fluorescence intensity, while humic-like components accounted for much less.