Is very small low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level a determinant of arterial stiffness in men with impaired glucose metabolism?
In addition to aging, hypertension and glucose levels, very small LDL cholesterol levels appear to play an important role in the development of arterial stiffness in men with impaired glucose metabolism.
The use of quality values on average improves the classification accuracy, and its contribution increases when the reads are more noisy. Also the comparison of metagenomic microbial communities can be performed efficiently. Similar metagenomes are quickly detected, just by processing their read data, without the need of costly alignments.