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Researchers looked at patient measurements typically used to assess heart disease risk: age, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, total cholesterol, diabetes status and any hypertension treatment. They found that they could substitute body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of height to weight), a noninvasive measure, for the lab-based blood test for cholesterol and still accurately predict patients' five-year cardiovascular disease risk...
...WORKS: Borrowers need credit scores of at least 640 (of 850 maximum) and a debt-to-income ratio of 30% or less...
Harvard’s $34.9-billion endowment is the largest in the nation, though Princeton University—with $15.8 billion—has a larger endowment-per-student ratio...
...proposed. Having ended up with such a large chunk of the popular vote but so few seats in Parliament, the Alliance hopes to win support for one of the major planks in its manifesto: proportional representation, an electoral system under which seats are awarded to parties in direct ratio to their popular vote. But since Britain's current system greatly benefits the two established parties, both the Tories and Labor will surely block the S.D.P. proposal...
...Army's manpower shop, officers are doing everything they can to cut the length of overseas deployments. For the past year, soldiers have been sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for 15-months tours, with only 12 months of "dwell time" at home between deployments (the Army's traditional deployment ratio has been one year deployed, two years at home). Families have been complaining about the 15-month tours, and it's a key topic of conversation whenever Army leaders meet with soldiers and their spouses...