Seclén, Segundo N. Nuñez-Robles, Eloisa Yovera-Aldana, Marlon Arias Chumpitaz, Arturo
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Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
SUMMARY To investigate the cumulative incidence and mortality of COVID-19 and the prevalence of comorbidities such as diabetes,obesity and hypertension in regions with different altitude levels ranging from sea level to high altitude. METHODOLOGY Analytical study in which we correlated secondary data obtained from reports of the Ministry of Health ...
Lai, Songjia Du, Kun Shi, Yu Li, Cao Wang, Guoze Hu, Shenqiang Jia, Xianbo Wang, Jie Chen, Shiyi
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Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
Obesity has become a widespread disease that is harmful to human health. Fat homeostasis is essentially maintained by fat accumulation and energy expenditure. Studies on brown adipose tissue (BAT) represent a promising opportunity to identify a pharmaceutical intervention against obesity through increased energy expenditure. Long non-coding RNAs (l...
Yan, Bin Du, Hanzhi Zhao, Juan Wu, Di Wang, Jie Yang, Guang Wang, Mengchang
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Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
Background Previous studies have found that neck circumference (NC) is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors. This study investigated the relationship between NC and the incidence of angina pectoris (AP). Methods Altogether 4821 participants (2212 males and 2609 females) from the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) with a mean age of 63.4...
Ghattas, Kyrillos N Ilyas, Shahbakht Al-Refai, Reham Maharjan, Reeju Diaz Bustamante, Liliana Khan, Safeera
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Cureus
Obesity and obesity-related illnesses (ORIs) constitute a significant burden on the healthcare system, with a very high prevalence in the general population. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia seen by healthcare providers. The risk of AF in obese individuals is reported to be high and in correlation with Body Mass Index (BMI), l...
Houttu, Veera Boulund, Ulrika Grefhorst, Aldo Soeters, Maarten R. Pinto-Sietsma, Sara-Joan Nieuwdorp, Max Holleboom, Adriaan G.
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Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
In recent years, the human gut microbiome has been found to influence a multitude of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome, with its components type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. It is recognized to be mainly influenced by environmental factors, such as lifestyle, but also genetics may play a role. The i...
Sasaki, Nobuo Ozono, Ryoji Maeda, Ryo Higashi, Yukihito
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BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
Introduction Little is known about the risk of hypertension in patients with the early stage of type 2 diabetes. We investigated the risk of hypertension in participants with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. Research design and methods This is a retrospective cohort study consisting of 2136 middle-aged participants (1022 with normal...
Bares, Sara H
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Sax, Paul E Erlandson, Kristine M Lake, Jordan E Mccomsey, Grace A Orkin, Chloe Esser, Stefan Brown, Todd T Rockstroh, Jürgen K Wei, Xuelian Carter, Christoph C
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) often leads to weight gain. While some of this weight gain may be an appropriate return-to-health effect, excessive increases in weight may lead to obesity. We sought to explore factors associated with weight gain in several randomized comparative clinical trials of ART initiation. We performed a pooled an...
Jacobson, Lisette T. Zackula, Rosalee E. Lu, Kelsey
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Kansas Journal of Medicine
Introduction Overweight and obesity during pregnancy are associated with adverse health outcomes leading to increased maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Women with a high body mass index (BMI) also experience low breastfeeding rates. There is limited evidence of effective educational programs that aim to improve length of breastfeeding ...
Ghoneim, Sara Butt, Muhammad Umer Hamid, Osama Shah, Aun Asaad, Imad
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Metabolism Open
• In the United States, the incidence of COVID-19 among patients with metabolic syndrome or its components is high. • Among all metabolic comorbid conditions, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) the more aggressive form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with the highest risk of COVID-19. • African Americans are disproporti...
