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Background: Recent studies have reported conflicting associations between egg consumption and the risk of all-cause or cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, including ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality and stroke mortality. With accumulating evidence, up-to-date evidence about the association should be synthesized.Objectives: We aimed to assess the association of the risk of all-cause and CVD mortality with egg consumption.Methods: We searched the PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases through 3 November, 2021 for observational studies conducted in participants ≥18 y of age and which provided ORs, RRs, or HRs and 95% CIs for ≥3 egg consumption categories or for increased intake of egg addressing the associations of interest. A random-effects model was used to pool the reported risk estimates. Restricted cubic splines were used to examine the dose-response association.Results: Twenty-four articles with 48 reports (25 for all-cause mortality, 11 for CVD mortality, 6 for IHD mortality, and 6 for stroke mortality) involving 11,890,695 participants were included. Intake of each 1-egg/d increment was associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality (RR: 1.06; 95% CI: 1.02, 1.10; P = 0.008), but the association was restricted to women, Americans, and studies with adjustments for hyperlipidemia. Egg consumption was linearly associated with CVD mortality only in participants >60 y of age, Americans, studies with follow-up duration ≥15 y, and studies with adjustments for hyperlipidemia (P ≤ 0.018). No significant association was found between egg consumption and IHD or stroke mortality (P ≥ 0.080).Conclusions: Egg consumption was linearly associated with a modestly increased risk of all-cause mortality and, in older participants, Americans, and studies with longer follow-up or adjustments for hyperlipidemia, CVD mortality. These findings suggest that it may be prudent to avoid high egg consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conductor on round core (CORC) cables with the features of flexibility and a high engineering current density have been a potential candidate for high magnetic field magnets and accelerator magnets. In these applications, reducing the magnetization loss generated in superconductors is essential in the process of design. CORC cables fabricated by multifilament-coated conductor (CC) tapes have been proved to have a low magnetization loss. However, the degradation of the critical current (Ic) and additional coupling losses significantly affects the performance of CORC cables. In this article, ultraviolet laser cutting technology is used to scribe both the superconducting layer and copper stabilization layers into narrow filaments. First, the magnetization loss of a single tape with different numbers of filaments was measured by a calibration-free method. Then, based on the testing results of a single tape, two typical CORC cables are wound by 10-mm-wide and 4-mm-wide CC tapes. The magnetization loss of cables made of striated tapes was discussed by both experimental and numerical methods. It is found that the magnetization loss significantly decreases with an increasing number of filaments under a high background magnetic field. The magnetization losses decrease in CORC cables made of striated CC tape. Due to the reduced coupling loss and attenuated shielding effect, there is not much difference between the two values of the magnetization loss reduction rates in CORC cables and single tapes. The conclusions obtained in this article will be instructive for the future design of CORC cables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pulsed lasers were used to drill small holes distributed homogeneously on buffer layers of coated conductors, aiming at improving their mechanical properties. Each hole should be engraved by only one pulse of laser for practicality. The effect of pulsed laser engraving on buffer layers, CeO2 in this study, were investigated. The size and depth of the hole can be controlled by adjusting laser parameters. REBa2Cu3Oy (REBCO) layers were then grown on the laser patterned buffer. The growth mechanism of REBCO above the drilled holes was studied. In addition, influence of drilled holes on the critical currents of coated conductors were studied. Finally, the effect on mechanical strength of as grown samples were studied by measuring their delamination strength under transverse tension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]