In the absence of collateral, group members guarantee each other's loans, with the lender threatening, at least in theory, to bar all group members from further loans if they do not cover for each other in the case of missed payments.
The collateral scoring system developed by Rentrop was used to classify patients into poor (grades 0 and 1) or good (grades 2 and 3) collateral group.
The percent of CAD patients in the well-collateralization group increased with CAD class; 50.5% for class 1, 74.8% for class 2, and 92% for class 3. Our results demonstrate that patients in the poor-collateralization group had a higher prevalence of severe vitamin D deficiency than the well-collateralization group (poor-collateral group; 75.2% versus well-collateral group; 66.5%, P < 0.0001).
Following logistical regression analysis, we found that carriers of the f allele (patients with ff and Ff genotypes) were associated with the poor-collateral group (P = 0.004).
After adjustment for age, sex, severity of CAD, and cardiovascular risk factors (higher TG, higher FBS, higher total cholesterol, higher BMI, and lower ejection fraction), FF genotype was still significantly associated with the well-collateral group (P = 0.02).
Don Bellville, the executive vice president of Best Collateral, a group of pawnshops in California, said his stores had embraced the holidays in the last two years by offering deals, bringing in Santa and putting some snowflakes in the windows.
Since my interest was focused on coronary collaterals our group tried to find a factor produced by the myocardium.
The Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank was built on the concept of microcredit, a system by which small loans are given without collateral to groups of poor people – often women – who are then able to lift themselves and their families out of abject poverty.
Empowering women As envisioned by Mr. Yunus when he founded the Grameen Bank 30 years ago, microcredit involves the extension of small loans without collateral to groups of poor people – especially women – so that they can invest in income-generating activities.
With the aim of mitigating this undesirable collateral effect, we group the elements into blocks.
But in the "ground game" phase of Iowa Caucus season, when campaigns fight tooth and nail for every last vote, it's easy to imagine a campaign manager on the verge of defeat in one precinct or another, pausing for a split-second to question the wisdom of reducing an entire religious group to collateral damage.
