(1) As in the BAEC studies RA-octil was without beneficial effects on the isolated ischaemic rat heart.
(2) Furthermore we used the n-octyl-ester of ramipril (RA-octil) which was shown to have no ACE-inhibitory action.
Sextile
Definition:
(a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
(n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.
Example Sentences:
(1) In considering logistic function 46% of CHD new cases originated from the first four informative characteristics of the upper sextile.
(2) Risk of CHD development in the upper sextile was 6 times as high as in the lower sextile.
(3) Risk of CHD development compared to the lower sextile increased 9.5-fold.
(4) Cholesterol metabolism has been studied in two groups of five rhesus monkeys each that were selected from the upper and lower sextile in the distribution of serum cholesterol concentration while being fed an atherogenic diet.
(5) 50% of all CHD new cases originated from the upper sextile of distribution (17% of values).