Causes Who is at risk? You are at risk for prediabetes if any of the following are true: You are overweight or obese. You have a parent, brother or sister who has diabetes. You had diabetes during pregnancy (called gestational diabetes) or had a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds at birth.
Use in Cosmetics. Dibutyl phthalate (pronounced thal-ate), or DBP, is used mainly in nail products as a solvent for dyes and as a plasticizer that prevents nail polishes from becoming brittle.Phthalates are also used as fragrance ingredients in many other cosmetics, but consumers won't find these listed on the label.Credit: Gwen via Flickr.). Dibutyl phthalate (pronounced thal-ate), or DBP, is used mainly in nail products as a solvent for dyes and as a plasticizer that prevents nail polishes from becoming brittle.
DBH is used in estimating the amount of timber volume in a single tree or stand of trees utilising the allometric correlation between stem diameter, tree height and timber volume, (Mackie, 2006). It can also be used in the estimation of the age of veteran trees, given that diameter increment is the only constant non-reversible feature of tree growth (White, 1998).