Because black patients require higher doses of tacrolimus to achieve comparable blood concentrations to nonblacks' 14, and based on preliminary data with LCPT (data on file), black patients were converted using a 0.85 conversion multiplier.
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For our analysis, these concentrations are converted to the units of mmol/kg wet weight (mmol/L or mM) by multiplying a conversion factor of 0.25 kg dry weight/kg wet weight, corresponding to the muscle tissue [33].
Body mass index (BMI) was calculated by dividing weight in pounds by height in inches squared and multiplying by a conversion factor of 703; it is represented as a continuous variable and was used to categorize respondents as underweight (< 18.5), normal weight (18.5 24.9), overweight (25.0 29.9), and obese (≥ 30.0).
Sometimes organic carbon is multiplied by a conversion factor of 1.72 to give the percent organic matter [128].
This value (Volume Fraction) was multiplied by a conversion factor of 310 fgC µm−3 to convert it to biomass [29], [30].
Because each millimeter of the digital image equals 50 µm, the calculated areas were multiplied by a conversion factor of 2,500 (502) to determine the cross-sectional area of the adipocytes in µm2.
To convert the T/S value to basepairs, the T/S value was multiplied by a conversion factor of 4,270 bp, which was the TL for the reference DNA.
The biovolume value (volume fraction) was finally multiplied by a conversion factor of 310 fgC μm to convert it to biomass [ 26].
However, for the data representation in the graphs and elsewhere in the text, the concentration (g kg-1) was converted to concentration (g L-1) by multiplying with a conversion factor of 1.06 (kg L-1).
The concentration was determined by using the spectrophotometer optical density reading at a wavelength of 600 nm and multiplying it by a conversion factor of 1 OD600, equivalent to 3 × 10 cells/ml.
