visit was used to determine if the participants met study criteria. In order that BP could be evaluated as a continuous trait only persons not on treatment for hypertension were enrolled. Pregnant women were also excluded from participating in the study. To insure the inclusion of sufficient numbers of participants with obesity we recruited from the upper and lower tertiles of the site-specific body mass index (BMI) in Nigeria and Jamaica. The protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at Loyola University Medical Center, the University Hospital of the West Indies/University of the West Indies/Faculty of Medical Sciences Ethics Committee, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, and the Joint Ethical Committee of the University of Ibadan/University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. The consent process was presented in English orthe market, economy and tech space have recovered. He also said Yahoo! has not responded to the challenge of Facebook in the manner that Google ( GOOG) has.

He said the company seems more preoccupied with reaching its margin targets by cutting its workforce.

Brian Kelly said he was staying away from the stock because of the lack of growth in its search revenues. Tim Seymour said Yahoo! has become a cost-cutting, efficiency story that will eventually lead to private equity coming in to sell off the pieces of the company.

Jon Fortt, CNBC tech reporter, said Yahoo! has to figure out a way to monetize its huge audience. He said Yahoo!'s Asian assets are worth more than $10 billion.

The panel's opinions varied on Juniper Networks ( JNPR), which was falling