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What Is The Risk For Metabolic Syndrome In Police Officers?, Warren D. Franke Jan 2012

What Is The Risk For Metabolic Syndrome In Police Officers?, Warren D. Franke

Warren D Franke

The report by Jayakrishnan and colleagues in this Journal is noteworthy since it provides an assessment of the presence of the metabolic syndrome and related cardiovascular risk factors in one of the largest, if not the largest, cohort of police officers to date. Two aspects of this research especially warrant comment.


Free-Living Inferential Modeling Of Blood Glucose Level Using Only Noninvasive Inputs, Derrick K. Rollins, Nidhi Bhandari, Jim Kleinedler, Kaylee Kotz, Amber Strohbehn, Lindsay Boland, Megan Murphy, Dave Andre, Nisarg Vyas, Greg Welk, Warren D. Franke Jan 2010

Free-Living Inferential Modeling Of Blood Glucose Level Using Only Noninvasive Inputs, Derrick K. Rollins, Nidhi Bhandari, Jim Kleinedler, Kaylee Kotz, Amber Strohbehn, Lindsay Boland, Megan Murphy, Dave Andre, Nisarg Vyas, Greg Welk, Warren D. Franke

Warren D Franke

The goal of this work is to present a causation modeling methodology with the ability to accurately infer blood glucose levels using a large set of highly correlated noninvasive input variables over an extended period of time. These models can provide insight to improve glucose monitoring, and glucose regulation through advanced model-based control technologies. The efficacy of this approach is demonstrated using real data from a type 2 diabetic (T2D) subject collected under free-living conditions over a period of 25 consecutive days. The model was identified and tested using eleven variables that included three food variables as well as several …


Rapid Gut Transit Time And Slow Fecal Isoflavone Disappearance Phenotype Are Associated With Greater Genistein Bioavailability In Women, Yan Zheng, Jiang Hu, Patricia A. Murphy, D. Lee Alekel, Warren D. Franke, Suzanne Hendrich Jan 2003

Rapid Gut Transit Time And Slow Fecal Isoflavone Disappearance Phenotype Are Associated With Greater Genistein Bioavailability In Women, Yan Zheng, Jiang Hu, Patricia A. Murphy, D. Lee Alekel, Warren D. Franke, Suzanne Hendrich

Warren D Franke

The bioavailability of soybean isoflavones varies widely among individuals due to many factors, including activities of gut microflora. To characterize factors that affect fecal isoflavone disappearance phenotype and isoflavone bioavailability in women, 35 Asian and 33 Caucasian women, 18-43 y of age, provided fecal samples for anaerobic incubation with isoflavones in vitro at two times 5 mo apart (Phases I and II). Diet, physical activity and health history were investigated at these times. A single dose of soymilk powder [1.2 mg (4.57 micromol) total isoflavone/kg body] was given to all subjects with breakfast in phase II. Daidzein and genistein from …


Preliminary Exercise Identity Scale (Eis) Norms For Three Adult Samples, Dean F. Anderson, Charles M. Cychosz, Warren D. Franke Jan 2001

Preliminary Exercise Identity Scale (Eis) Norms For Three Adult Samples, Dean F. Anderson, Charles M. Cychosz, Warren D. Franke

Warren D Franke

Sociological traditions suggest that role identities serve to give meaning and impor­tance to past behavior as well as provide direction for future behavior. The Exercise Identity Scale (EIS) was developed to measure the extent to which exercise contributes to an individual's role-identity. This investigation examined age norms on the EIS. Data were collected from three populations including a convenience sample of 203 college students enrolled in three elective health-studies courses (92% Caucasian and 63% female), 441 of 531 (83%) law enforcement employees in a state department concerned with public safety (98% Caucasian and 96% male), and 1253 of 4000 (32%) …


Endocrine Responses To Chronic Androstenedione Intake In 30- To 56-Year-Old Men, Gregory A. Brown, Matthew D. Vukovich, Emily R. Martini, Marian L. Kohut, Warren D. Franke, David A. Jackson, Douglas S. King Jan 2000

Endocrine Responses To Chronic Androstenedione Intake In 30- To 56-Year-Old Men, Gregory A. Brown, Matthew D. Vukovich, Emily R. Martini, Marian L. Kohut, Warren D. Franke, David A. Jackson, Douglas S. King

Warren D Franke

In young men, chronic ingestion of 100 mg androstenedione (ASD), three times per day, does not increase serum total testosterone but does increase serum estrogen and ASD concentrations. We investigated the effects of ASD ingestion in healthy 30- to 56-yr-old men. In a double-blind, randomly assigned manner, subjects consumed 100 mg ASD three times daily (n 5 28), or placebo (n 5 27) for 28 days. Serum ASD , dihydrotestosterone (DHT), free and total testosterone, estradiol, prostate-specific antigen (PSA), and lipid concentrations were measured at week 0 and each week throughout the supplementation period. Serum total testosterone and PSA concentrations …


Association Of Exercise Identity With Measures Of Exercise Commitment, Dean F. Anderson, Charles M. Cychosz, Warren D. Franke Sep 1998

Association Of Exercise Identity With Measures Of Exercise Commitment, Dean F. Anderson, Charles M. Cychosz, Warren D. Franke

Warren D Franke

Role-identities are integral parts of the concept of self. Sociological traditions suggest that they serve to give meaning and importance to past behavior as well as providing direction for future behavior. This investigation examined the relationship of Exercise Identity with: age of subject, three measures of exercise commitment, and three physiological indicators of fit­ness. Data were collected from 448 of the 531 (84%) law enforcement personnel of a state department of public safety during annual physical exams at the university fitness clinic. Ninety-eight percent of the subjects self-identified as Caucasian and 96% were male (mean age = 39, range 21-63). …