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Fitness status quartiles within the competitive cyclists were established through V[O.sub.2] max.

A Comparison of Heart Rate Measures between Fit Cohorts of Cyclists

Lower quartile (lowest paid) - 70.1% of the lower quartile are women

Gender pay gap - this is how Coventry and Warwickshire's biggest employers fared; The deadline has now passed for companies to submit details of their gender pay gap

The conditional estimates reported in the lower panel of the table clearly support a nonlin-early heterogeneous association, as all estimates of the growth-inequality association are significantly larger in the fourth quartile of economic freedom.

Growth, inequality, and economic freedom: Evidence from the U.S. states

Subjects were divided equally into four groups (quartiles) based on thyroid laboratory testing as follows: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH, [mu]IU/mL) quartiles, Q1 (TSH < 1.30), Q2 (1.30 [less than or equal to] TSH <1.90), Q3 (1.90 [less than or equal to] TSH < 2.75), and Q4 (TSH [greater than or equal to] 2.75); free thyroxine (free T4, ng/dL) quartiles, Q1 (free T4 < 1.15), Q2 (1.15 [less than or equal to] free T4 < 1.26), Q3 (1.26 [less than or equal to] free T4 < 1.38), and Q4 (free T4 [greater than or equal to] 1.38); and triiodothyronine (T3, pg/mL) quartiles, Q1 (T3 < 2.87), Q2 (2.87 [less than or equal to] T3 < 3.12), Q3 (3.12 [less than or equal to] T3 < 3.40), and Q4 (T3 [greater than or equal to] 3.40).

Glaucomatous Optic Nerve Changes and Thyroid Dysfunction in an Urban South Korean Population

Metformin reduced the rate of developing diabetes only among patients in the highest risk quartile, whose mean 3-year diabetes risk averaged 60% (placebo rate=59.6%; metformin rate=38.2%; mean absolute risk reduction [ARR]=21.4%; 3-year number needed to treat [NNT]=4.6).

Q/Which patients with metabolic syndrome benefit from metformin?

Those in the top quartile had a greater lung capacity (FVC) and could exhale more air in one second (FEV1) than those in the lowest quartile.

Fiber-Rich Diet May Reduce Lung Disease

The methodology for this study consisted of binning every event in every year into quartiles and then analyzing the results of the top quartile in each event.

The science of sit-ups: an assessment of total physical fitness

Women with higher binding inhibitory capacity at delivery were less likely to deliver LBW babies (odds ratio <1 for all quartiles in comparison to first quartile; p = 0.028).

Protective antibodies against placental malaria and poor outcomes during pregnancy, Benin