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2008
- 07/09 - Alternative cutoff points for overweight and obesity among Asians
- 07/08 - Prehypertension shown to double the risk for diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome and coronary heart disease among Turkish women
- 07/07 - Dietary magnesium intake inversely associated with prevalence of metabolic syndrome in older American men
- 07/04 - Consistent dose-response relationship between sex hormone levels and odds of metabolic syndrome in men across race and ethnic groups
- 07/03 - Higher concentration of oxidized low-density lipoprotein associated with incidental metabolic syndrome
- 07/02 - Similar benefits of low-fat versus Mediterranean-style dietary intervention after first myocardial infarction
- 07/01 - No significant changes in the prevalence of high body mass index for age among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006
- 06/30 - One hour plasma glucose concentration as a strong predictor of future risk for type 2 diabetes
- 06/27 - Body weight change as independent predictor of chronic kidney disease in healthy men
- 06/26 - A sex hormone alteration may underlie visceral fat accumulation and thus ultimately metabolic syndrome
- 06/25 - Elevated serum uric acid as a strong and independent predictor of incident metabolic syndrome in both men and women
- 06/24 - Metabolic syndrome identifies patients at risk of both diabetes and cardiovascular disease who may derive benefit from lifestyle intervention
- 06/23 - Lower sex hormone-binding globulin more strongly associated with metabolic syndrome than lower testosterone in older men
- 06/20 - Waist-to-hip ratio, but not body mass index, associated with incident kidney disease and mortality
- 06/19 - Diet and weight loss shown to increase the number of circulating progenitor cells in obese patients
- 06/18 - Maintaining weight may be beneficial in older persons who become overweight after age 65
- 06/17 - Interacting genetic risk factors and smoking influence on metabolic disturbances in schizophrenic patients
- 06/16 - Sleep duration as a significant correlate of metabolic syndrome in midlife adults
- 06/13 - Metabolic syndrome may be relevant to the continuum of metaplasia observed in patients presenting with Barrett’s oesophagus
- 06/12 - Variants in the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene linked with polycystic ovary syndrome
- 06/11 - Inflammatory markers and albuminuria as independent predictors of incident heart failure
- 06/10 - Accumulation of intra-abdominal adiposity during adolescence promotes development of metabolic syndrome in both sexes but influences blood pressure adversely only in males
- 06/09 - Similar deleterious impact of metabolic syndrome on all-cause mortality in hypertensive and normotensive subjects
- 06/06 - Non-HDL cholesterol strongly associated with coronary artery calcification
- 06/05 - Higher visceral adipose tissue associated with higher VLDL and LDL particle number, larger VLDL particles and smaller LDL and HDL particles in type 2 diabetes
- 06/04 - Central obesity measured by computed tomography no better predictor of diabetes than body mass index
- 06/03 - Dramatic increases in overweight and obesity rates between the ages of 1 and 3 years among low-income children from New York City
- 06/02 - The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis confirms the impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease risk factors
- 05/30 - Caloric restriction with or without exercise shown to reduce oxidative stress in obese patients with type 2 diabetes
- 05/29 - Obesity associated with increased risk of developing stage 3 chronic kidney disease
- 05/28 - Risk of coronary heart disease associated with elevated BMI considerably reduced by increased physical activity
- 05/27 - Leanness as a significant determinant of poor cognitive function in hypertensive elderly patients
- 05/26 - Intra-abdominal fat may be a key determinant in the development of larger aortic diameters
- 05/23 - Differences in diet, alcohol consumption, and serum lipid levels of the middle-aged and elderly in the Guangxi Bai Ku Yao and Han populations
- 05/22 - Calory restriction reduces liver lipids in overweight subjects without non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- 05/21 - A randomized controlled trial comparing the physiological response to 10 weeks of combined aerobic and resistance exercise versus exercise + minimal nutrition intervention in overweight adults
- 05/20 - Obesity only weakly related to traditional cardiovascular risk factors in black South African women
- 05/19 - Inverse association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and positive association of parathyroid hormone levels with metabolic syndrome among US adults
- 05/16 - Mild retinopathy signs as a preclinical marker of underlying microvascular disease and future diabetes risk
- 05/15 - Adherence to the DASH-style diet associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in women
- 05/14 - The simple message: “Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height”
- 05/13 - Psychosocial deprivation as an independent determinant of metabolic syndrome in a Paris suburb
- 05/12 - Higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome and increased Framingham risk scores in women with bilateral oophorectomy before 50 years of age
- 05/09 - Metabolic syndrome factors as important accelerators for type 2 diabetes in the Anglo-Celtic but not in the Chinese population
- 05/08 - Requirement for glucose-lowering therapy should prompt intensive prophylactic treatment for cardiovascular diseases
- 05/07 - Significant increase of overweight and obesity during the 1990s in China
- 05/06 - Obesity associated to an increased risk of aeroallergen sensitization and allergic asthma
- 05/05 - Eating meals irregularly as a novel risk factor for metabolic syndrome
- 05/02 - Metabolic syndrome independently associated with the presence and extent of coronary atherosclerotic plaques
- 04/30 - A genotype score of nine validated single-nucleotide polymorphisms as an independent risk factor for incident cardiovascular disease
- 04/29 - Abdominal adiposity in women strongly associated with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality independently of body mass index
- 04/28 - Central obesity in midlife increases risk of dementia independently of diabetes and cardiovascular comorbidities
- 04/25 - A population-based study to investigate the epidemiology and genetic determinants of cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome in Lausanne
- 04/24 - Significant differences in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among four populations of the Asia-Pacific region
- 04/23 - Insulin as the only reliable biomarker to differentiate metabolic syndrome status in an obese population with elevated waist circumference
- 04/22 - Metabolic syndrome as an important health problem among the adult population of Trabzon, Turkey
- 04/21 - Calcium intake negatively related to body fat and insulin resistance in post-pubertal obese girls
- 04/18 - Laparoscopic ileal interposition associated with sleeve gastrectomy for the control of metabolic syndrome in patients with type 2 diabetes
- 04/17 - Including abnormal liver function tests in the definition of metabolic syndrome could increase its predictive nature for cardiovascular disease
- 04/16 - The term metabolic syndrome does not adequately describe the effects of GnRH agonists in men with prostate cancer
- 04/15 - Association between age at menarche and risk of diabetes: results from the EPIC-Norfolk cohort
- 04/14 - Waist circumference prospectively linked to colon cancer risk
- 04/11 - The weight loss maintenance randomized controlled trial
- 04/10 - The metabolic syndrome as predictor of incident stroke
- 04/09 - Effects of dietary carbohydrate, glycaemic index and glycaemic load on the risk of metabolic syndrome in a Korean population
- 04/08 - Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the Jackson Heart Study among the highest for population-based cohorts worldwide
- 04/07 - Psoriasis associated with diabetes in a population-based cross-sectional study
- 04/04 - An association between psoriasis and metabolic syndrome in a cross-sectional case-control study
- 04/03 - Gender differences in the response to the oral glucose tolerance test may be accounted for by height
- 04/02 - The triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio may be a clinically useful indicator for hyperinsulinaemia among nondiabetic adults regardless of race/ethnicity
- 04/01 - Hypertensive patients who develop diabetes mellitus are at higher risk of atrial fibrillation and heart failure
- 03/31 - Poststroke mortality inversely related to body mass index
- 03/28 - Triglyceride/HDL-cholesterol ratio as an imperfect surrogate for insulin resistance and its associated coronary heart disease risk
- 03/27 - No consistent glycaemic threshold for incident retinopathy across different populations
- 03/26 - Proliferative diabetic retinopathy significantly associated with coronary atherosclerosis in the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT)
- 03/25 - Television-viewing time positively associated with a number of metabolic risk variables
- 03/24 - Dyslipidaemia predicts the development of hypertension in middle-aged men, independently of features related to the metabolic syndrome
- 03/21 - Alanine aminotransferase associated with an adverse atherothrombotic and metabolic risk profile in a British South Asian population
- 03/20 - Several components of the metabolic syndrome associated with cardiovascular disease in elderly Italians
- 03/19 - Adiponectin associated with adverse cardiovascular outcome in patients with manifest coronary artery disease
- 03/18 - Main lipid-related cardiovascular disease risk in Maori and Pacific people is due to their low HDL and high triglyceride levels.
- 03/17 - Importance of sleep disordered breathing as a risk factor for clinically important levels of metabolic dysfunction
- 03/14 - Metabolic syndrome strongly associated with lacunar infection in middle-aged subjects
- 03/13 - High prevalence of the metabolic syndrome as an emerging health problem in Iranian women
- 03/12 - Achieving low triglyceride levels may be an additional consideration beyond low LDL-cholesterol levels for patients after acute coronary syndrome
- 03/11 - Strong association between obesity and C-reactive protein in African-Americans and in Hispanic-Americans
- 03/10 - Strong genetic influences on childhood abdominal obesity
- 03/07 - Low-carbohydrate diets rich in vegetable sources of fat and protein may modestly reduce the risk of diabetes
- 03/06 - The measurement of dysfunctional HDL may play an important role in coronary artery disease risk
- 03/05 - Circulating adiponectin level as a strong risk marker for metabolic syndrome, independent of measures of adiposity, insulin resistance and inflammatory markers
- 03/04 - Prolonged uninterrupted periods of sedentary life to be avoided!
- 03/03 - Metabolic syndrome as an important predisposing factor for depression
- 02/29 - A large breast size in late adolescence as a predictor of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged women
- 02/28 - Moderate alcohol consumption associated with a lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke and peripheral arterial disease
- 02/27 - Duration of lactation associated with lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome in midlife, parous women
- 02/26 - Lifestyle intervention may reduce risk of cardiovascular diseases in the long run
- 02/25 - Benefits of a whole grain-enriched hypocaloric diet on cardiovascular disease risk factors in subjects with metabolic syndrome
- 02/22 - Significant familial resemblance as regards metabolic syndrome and its components in a large Chinese population
- 02/21 - Seasonal changes in mood and behaviour linked to metabolic syndrome
- 02/20 - Whilst pericardial fat is correlated with multiple measures of adiposity and cardiovascular disease risk factors, visceral abdominal fat appears to be a stronger correlate of most metabolic risk factors
- 02/19 - Cardiovascular risk factors are common in patients with young-onset diabetes regardless of autoimmunity status
- 02/18 - Need for a unified definition of the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents
- 02/15 - Increased risk of myocardial infarction in hypertensive South Asians living in the United Kingdom as a result of a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus
- 02/14 - Diabetic retinopathy associated with an increased incidence of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes
- 02/13 - Presence of metabolic syndrome (NCEP and revised-NCEP) associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in subjects with various manifestations of atherosclerosis
- 02/12 - Increases in causal blood glucose, even within the normal range, predict cardiovascular disease mortality
- 02/11 - Adiponectin as a powerful maker of diabetes risk, even after adjustment for weight
- 02/08 - Hypovitaminosis D and its relationship with adiposity, insulin sensitivity, ethnicity and season in obese children and adloescents
- 02/07 - Alcohol intake may attenuate the relation between saturated fat and subclinical atherosclerosis
- 02/06 - Subpopulation of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and HDL lipoproteins as better predictors of coronary heart disease than triglycerides and HDL-cholesterol concentrations in postmeniopausal women
- 02/05 - Potential long-term effects of the very-low-carbohydrate high-fat diet are a matter of concern
- 02/04 - Impaired fasting glucose definitions shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk in women but not in men
- 02/01 - Inverse relationship between HDL-cholesterol and coronary risk even among patients with low LDL-cholesterol
- 01/31 - Metabolic syndrome in childhood as predictor of adult metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes 25 to 30 years later
- 01/30 - Fasting insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I, and endogenous estradiol shown to be related to colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women
- 01/29 - Association between cardiovascular risk factors and microalbuminuria in adolescents shown to be modified by being overweight
- 01/28 - Association between depression and incident cardiovascular disease only partly accounted for by metabolic syndorme
- 01/25 - Metabolic syndrome associated with increased risk of chronic kidney disease in American Indians
- 01/24 - Complex relationship between excess body weight, adiposity, and energy expenditure among populations of African origin
- 01/23 - Retinal arteriolar narrowing shown to predict incident diabetes
- 01/22 - Metabolic syndrome shown to vary considerably according to clinical criteria used
- 01/21 - Active smoking associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes
- 01/18 - Indices of abdominal obesity more predictive of coronary heart disease than body mass index
- 01/17 - Larger retinal vascular calibre in subjects with diabetes
- 01/16 - Prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding does not reduce measures of adiposity and blood pressure
- 01/15 - Metabolic syndrome as an important risk factor for ischaemic stroke
- 01/14 - Adolescent overweight will increase rates of adult coronary heart disease
- 01/11 - Longterm effects of excess childhood weight on the risk of coronary heart disease
- 01/10 - Fitness as a significant mortality predictor in older patients, independent of overall or abdominal adiposity
- 01/09 - Hypertensive patients at low-medium risk with metabolic syndrome exhibit higher cardiovascular risk than those without metabolic syndrome
- 01/08 - Elevated 2-h glucose concentration as a predictor of the development of subsequent hypertension
- 01/07 - Metabolic syndrome as a significant risk factor for developing chronic kidney disease in Japanese adults
- 01/04 - HbA1c-estimated chronic mild hyperglycaemia associated with increased risk of mortality even in the absence of diabetes
- 01/03 - Waist-to-hip ratio shown to be more useful than body mass index or waist circumference in identifying subjects at increased risk for future cardiovascular events
- 01/02 - Comparative importance of body mass index and metabolic risk factors in predicting 10-year risk of cardiovascular events in women
- 12/31 - Impaired glucose tolerance strongly linked to intima-media thickness in children and adolescents
- 12/28 - Using pedometers is associated with significant increases in physical activity and significant decreases in body mass index and blood pressure
- 12/27 - Excess body weight associated with increased risk of developing leukaemia
- 12/26 - Significant evidence of shared genetic effects between plasma levels of adiponectin and well-established risk factors for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes
- 12/24 - Substantial progression to metabolic syndrome after initiation of antiretroviral therapy in HIV infection
- 12/21 - High-molecular weight adiponectin as a better marker of the extent of coronary atherosclerosis than total adiponectin
- 12/20 - No temporal relation found between short duration of sleep and measures of body weight in prospective analyses
- 12/19 - Possible association found between psoriasis and metabolic syndrome
- 12/18 - Diabetes incidence shown to be 10-20 times greater in subjects with impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose than in subjects with normal glycaemia
- 12/18 - Diabetes incidence shown to be 10-20 times greater in subjects with impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose than in subjects with normal glycaemia
- 12/17 - Increasing body mass index associated with a significantly increased cancer risk for 10 out of 17 specific cancer types
- 12/14 - Association of body mass index with mortality shown to vary by cause of death for the US population
- 12/13 - Persistence of low HDL cholesterol in high-risk patients with CHD despite statin treatment and the achievement of aggressive LDL cholesterol goals
- 12/12 - New International Diabetes Federation definition of metabolic syndrome compared to WHO and NCEP definitions in Chinese, European and South Asian adults
- 12/11 - Telomere shortening of endothelial progenitor cells via increased DNA damage may play an important role in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease
- 12/10 - Relationships between alcohol drinking, blood pressure and serum cholesterol in healthy young women
- 12/07 - Disparities in haemoglobin A1c levels between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites with diabetes
- 12/06 - Serum uric acid as predictor of mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes
- 12/05 - Differences in diabetes prevalence between African-American and Whites are to be accounted for the differences in established risk factors such as socioeconomic status
- 12/04 - Metabolic syndrome as a predictor of risk of macrovascular but not microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes patients
- 12/03 - Significant inverse relationships between atherosclerotic calcified plaque and bone mineral density in type 2 diabetes
- 11/30 - HOMA-IR and insulin sensitivity measured by the euglycaemic clamp shown to be not highly genetically correlated
- 11/29 - Independent inter-relationships between C-reactive protein, metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney diseasen
- 11/28 - Fasting blood glucose as an independent predictor for vascular outcomes among subjects without a history of diabetes
- 11/27 - Hyperuricaemia as an independent factor for the metabolic syndrome in a sub-Saharan African population
- 11/26 - An effective screening strategy to detect impaired glucose tolerance and undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in UK South Asians
- 11/23 - Epidemiology of overweight and related lifestyle behaviours among American youth
- 11/22 - Magnesium as a potential contributor to diabetes in Indigenous Australians
- 11/21 - Renal artery calcium independently associated with higher odds for prevalent hypertension
- 11/20 - Low birthweight subjects predisposed to higher rates of glycaemic dysregulation in adult life
- 11/19 - Increasing high-density lipoprotein cholesterol relative to total cholesterol may increase the risk of stroke
- 11/16 - Physical inactivity associated with insulin resistance and microvascular dysfunction in healthy volunteers
- 11/15 - A systemic review on the association between high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol and risk of stroke and carotid atherosclerosis
- 11/14 - Prenatal exposure to famine during gestation shown to be not significantly associated with metabolic syndrome
- 11/13 - No association between dietary glycaemic index and glycaemic load and increased risk of diabetes in the Whitehall II study
- 11/12 - Significant association between high haemoglobin A1c level and sleep duration
- 11/09 - Association between total cholesterol and major cardiovascular diseases in the Asia-Pacific region
- 11/08 - Low serum adiponectin levels and increased levels of leptin as independent risk factors of breast cancer
- 11/07 - Muscular strength as an independent and powerful predictor of higher insulin sensitivity in children and adolescents
- 11/06 - Genetic factors do not account for a significant proportion of the variation in age-related changes of BMI or lipid and lipoprotein levels
- 11/05 - Impaired glucose tolerance, reduced insulin sensitivity and related metabolic defects are common in brothers of women with polycystic ovary syndrome
- 11/02 - Alcohol consumption associated with greater HDL cholesterol levels regardless of beverage type.
- 11/01 - Retinopathy signs independently associated with coronary artery calcification
- 10/31 - Diabetes associated with larger retinal arteriolar calibre and retinopathy with larger retinal venular calibre
- 10/30 - Increases in diabetes prevalence over recent decades disproportionately comprised of extremely obese subjects
- 10/29 - Genetic and phenotypic architecture of metabolic syndrome-associated components
- 10/26 - Risk of neural tube defect linked to metabolic syndrome features
- 10/25 - Linear relationship of apolipoprotein E genotypes with LDL cholesterol levels and coronary risk
- 10/24 - Possible link between severe generalized periodontitis, systemic inflammation and a dysmetabolic state
- 10/23 - Longitudinal changes in triglyceride levels as predicor of coronary heart disease in young men
- 10/22 - Two year follow-up results from the Christchurch Obesity Prevention Project in Schools (CHOPPS)
- 10/19 - Metabolic syndrome associated with decelerated cognitive decline in the oldest old
- 10/18 - Association of overweight with increased risk of coronary heart disease partly independent of blood pressure and cholesterol levels
- 10/17 - Upward high blood pressure trends in children and adolescents in National Surveys, from 1963 to 2002
- 10/16 - No incremental benefit of measuring waist circumference in children, in addition to BMI, for cardiovascular risk prediction
- 10/15 - High prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea
- 10/12 - Lipid overstorage in human cardiac myocytes as an early manifestation of impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes
- 10/11 - No relationship between metabolic syndrome and bone mineral density in a population-based US study
- 10/10 - ApoB/apoA-I ratio as independent predictor of insulin resistance in US non-diabetic subjects
- 10/09 - Impact of increased weight and waist circumference on vascular risk factors in an older Chinese population
- 10/08 - Characteristics of body fat distribution and their relationships to insulin resistance in South Asian men compared to Caucasian men
- 10/05 - Strategies targeting obesity, dysregulated glucose homeostasis and low HDL-C during childhood and adolescence might be most successful in preventing diabetes.
- 10/04 - Higher incidence rate of impaired fasting glucose and diabetes in patients with myocardial infarction
- 10/03 - Persistence of HDL-related risk in patients with LDL-cholesterol levels < 70 mg/dL
- 10/02 - Metabolic syndrome as a powerful risk factor for operative mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery
- 10/01 - No difference in ten-year cardiovascular disease risk in middle-aged Chinese metabolic syndrome patients with or without central obesity
- 09/28 - Waist-to-hip ratio shown to provide better discrimination for prevalent atherosclerosis than body mass index or waist circumference
- 09/27 - No incremental utility of apolipoproteins over traditional risk factors for coronary heart disease risk prediction
- 09/26 - Higher circulating plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and aldosterone levels associated with incident metabolic syndrome and its risk factors
- 09/25 - Strategies for lowering systolic blood pressure in subjects with metabolic syndrome may be enhanced by recommendations to adopt the DASH dietary pattern
- 09/24 - Increased adiposity and weight gain as strong risk factors for incident psoriasis in women
- 09/21 - Variation in traits related to obesity, glucose metabolism and dyslipidaemia is mainly explained by genetic factors
- 09/20 - Overweight and obesity associated with psychiatric disorders
- 09/19 - Metabolic syndrome linked to colorectal adenoma
- 09/18 - Significant association between restless legs syndrome and type 2 diabetes
- 09/17 - Cardiorespiratory fitness relating more strongly than physical activity to cardiovascular disease risk factors in healthy European children ans adolescents
- 09/14 - Clock genes shown to be associated with human metabolic syndrome
- 09/13 - Longterm physical activity associated with decreased rate of waist gain and with a smaller waist circumference in a 30-year longitudinal twin study
- 09/12 - Risk of metabolic syndrome persisting twenty years after the cessation of smoking
- 09/11 - Increased leptin concentrations shown to be independently associated with myocardial infarction/stroke in the US population
- 09/10 - Consumption of milk and dairy products shown to be associated with a markedly reduced prevalence of the metabolic syndrome
- 09/07 - Elevated Interleukin-18 levels are not independently associated with atherosclerosis in the general population
- 09/06 - Physical activity during leisure recorded in middle age as a predictor of the metabolic syndrome in old age
- 09/05 - Alcohol intake associated with increasing BMI and several metabolic abnormalities in Korean men
- 09/04 - Mild elevations of urine albumin excretion associated with atherogenic lipoprotein abnormalities in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
- 09/03 - Markers of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance as main predictors of target-organ changes in children with primary hypertension
- 08/31 - Subjects with metabolic syndrome shown to have greater endothelial dysfunction than those without metabolic syndrome
- 08/30 - Nonfasting triglyceride levels associated with incident cardiovascular events but not fasting triglyceride levels
- 08/29 - Elevated nonfasting triglyceride levels associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease and death in both men and women
- 08/28 - Prevalence of cataract in middle-aged urban women with metabolic syndrome shown to be significantly higher than in those without metabolic syndrome
- 08/27 - Metabolic syndrome associated with increased risk of major vascular events in liver transplant recipients
- 08/24 - Gender as a strong modifyer of the joint effect of diabetes and metabolic syndrome on coronary heart disease mortality
- 08/23 - More than three million Chinese adolescents estimated to have metabolic syndrome
- 08/22 - Metabolic syndrome associated with abnormal liver function among freshmen
- 08/21 - Ethnic differences in adiponectin levels within the scope of the metabolic syndrome
- 08/20 - Soft drink consumption associated with a higher prevalence and incidence of multiple metabolic risk factors
- 08/17 - Derivation and validation of a new cardiovascular disease risk score for the United Kingdom: QRISK
- 08/16 - Serum myeloperoxidase levels linked to the future risk of coronary artery disease in apparently healthy subjects
- 08/15 - A randomized controlled trial on the effects of low habitual cocoa intake on blood pressure and bioactive nitric oxide
- 08/14 - Abdominal obesity associated with coronary artery calcification in young adults
- 08/13 - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease may predict the development of metabolic disorders due to insulin resistance
- 08/10 - Peripheral arterial disease independently associated to cardiovascular risk factors in rural Chinese populations
- 08/09 - Elevation of liver enzymes and hepatic insulin resistance occur in the early stages of insulin resistance
- 08/08 - Impaired subcutaneous adipocyte lipogenesis associated with systemic insulin resistance and increased apolipoprotein B/AI ratio in both genders
- 08/07 - Bright Bodies weight management program shown to have sustained beneficial effects on body composition and insulin resistance in overweight children in a randomized controlled trial
- 08/06 - Variation in the relationship of body mass index to disease in different populations
- 08/03 - Higher frequency of cardiovascular damage in hypertensive patients with metabolic syndrome compared to those without metabolic syndrome
- 08/02 - Intake of added sugar and sugar-sweetened drinks associated with higher plasma uric acid concentrations in men but not in women
- 08/01 - Muscle-strengthening activity associated with higher insulin sensitivity among US adults
- 07/31 - Systemic oxidative stress associated with insulin resistance in subjects at average or elevated risk of diabetes
- 07/30 - The impact of overweight on high blood pressure in an ethnically diverse sample of British adolescents
- 07/27 - Abdominal visceral fat compartment as a unique, pathogenic fat depot
- 07/26 - Strong association between abnormal glucose metabolism and mortality in Australian subjects
- 07/25 - Low serum 25(OH)D levels associated with important cardiovascular risk factors in US adults
- 07/24 - Hyperglycaemia as main contributor of the association of metabolic syndrome with cognition
- 07/23 - Both recreational physical activity and sedentary behaviour independently predict risk of ≥10-pound weight gain among postmenopausal women who were not overweight at baselineLifetime weight gain is associated with lifestyle factors, including decreased
- 07/16 - Increase in physical activity energy expenditure associated with reduced metabolic risk independently of change in fatness and fitness
- 06/25 - Further discussions might be needed before implementing the International Diabetes Federation definition of the metabolic syndrome in Taiwan
- 06/20 - Increased serum levels of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) shown to predict total, cardiovascular disease and coronary mortality in women with type 2 diabetes
- 07/20 - Metabolic syndrome associated with adverse cardiovascular outcome independently of its associations with diabetes and obesity
- 07/19 - Retinal vessel calibre shown to be independently associated with microvascular and macrovascular disease in type 2 diabetes
- 07/18 - Metabolic syndrome shown to be significantly associated with all grades of leukoaraiosis
- 07/17 - Overweight associated with longevity in an 80-year-old community-based population
- 07/16 - Increase in physical activity energy expenditure associated with reduced metabolic risk independently of change in fatness and fitness
- 07/13 - Clear evidence of the association between insulin resistance and progression to type 1 diabetes
- 07/12 - Obesity and dieting associated with opposite changes in white matter expansion in humans
- 07/11 - Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome as independent predictors of incident cardiovascular disease
- 07/10 - Obesity associated with a substantially lower mortality risk in veteran patients without heart failure
- 07/09 - Healthy dietary food patterns associated with reduced levels of markers linked to the metabolic syndrome
- 07/06 - High prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its complications in the United Arab Emirates
- 07/05 - Serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol as a preclinical indicator of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- 07/04 - Circulating adipokine levels primarily attributable to ponderal index in obese children
- 07/03 - Interaction of sleep-disordered breathing and metabolic abnormalities in overweight and obese children and adolescents
- 07/02 - Serum uric acid linked to risk factors of metabolic syndrome except for blood glucose
- 06/29 - Higher indexes of insulin resistance and glucose intolerance in young adults with very low birth weight
- 06/28 - Low-glycaemic load diet shown to have beneficial effects on HDL-cholesterol and triglycerides but not on LDL-cholesterol in a randomized trial
- 06/27 - Adipose tissue arachidonic acid as an independent marker of metabolic dysregulation in Costa Rican adults
- 06/26 - Metabolic syndrome shown to produce clinically significant coronary atherosclerosis stenosis by a mechanism independent of an increase in arterial stiffness
- 06/25 - Further discussions might be needed before implementing the International Diabetes Federation definition of the metabolic syndrome in Taiwan
- 06/22 - Microvascular vasodilator function is impaired in obese patients, with little further impairment in impaired fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes patients
- 06/21 - Regular alcohol consumption shown to improve insulin resistance in healthy Japanese men
- 06/20 - Increased serum levels of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) shown to predict total, cardiovascular disease and coronary mortality in women with type 2 diabetes
- 06/19 - Circulating adiponectin levels shown to be a useful predictor of coronary endothelial function
- 06/18 - Diabetes mellitus associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer
- 06/15 - Insulin resistance linked to the components of the metabolic syndrome in Black and White youth, and to biomarkers of endothelial function in White youth
- 06/14 - Serum concentrations of uric acid strongly associated with the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in US children and adolescents
- 06/13 - Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome shown to increase with increasing levels of serum uric acid
- 06/12 - Obstructive sleep apnoea associated with insulin resistance, inflammation and metabolic syndrome independently of body mass index
- 06/11 - The metabolic syndrome as a predictor of cardiovascular events in subjects with normal glucose tolerance
- 06/08 - Acute myocardial infarction rates and cardiovascular risk factors increased in patients with HIV disease
- 06/07 - Plasma levels of CRP shown to be highly associated with metabolic syndrome in the middle-aged and elderly Chinese population
- 06/06 - Relationship between lifestyle factors and incident metabolic syndrome in Norway
- 06/05 - A 10-year follow-up of the PROCAM study
- 06/04 - Abdominal fat distribution independently associated with cardiovascular risk factors in French children
- 06/01 - Plasma cytokines as independent predictors of atherosclerosis in humans
- 05/31 - A diagnosis of metabolic syndrome provides additional prediction of cardiovascular disease and total mortality in the elderly
- 05/30 - Food insecurity as a risk factor of diabetes mellitus
- 05/29 - Metabolic syndrome as major determinant of ischaemic cardiovascular disease among middle-aged Japanese subjects
- 05/28 - Midlife measures of central obesity and of hypertension linked to cognitive decline with age
- 05/25 - Metabolic syndrome shown to increase sudden death risk in asymptomatic men independently of other cardiovascular risk factors
- 05/24 - Magnitude of risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease varies markedly in moderately obese subjects
- 05/23 - Clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors in young Indian adolescents
- 05/22 - Ferritin and transferrin as markers of the metabolic syndrome
- 05/21 - Importance of oral glucose testing in the diagnostic work-up of acute myocardial infarction
- 05/18 - Type 2 diabetes mellitus associated with increased risk of breast cancer
- 05/16 - Metabolic endotoxaemia triggers body weight gain and diabetes in mice
- 05/15 - Causal role of psychosocial factors in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome
- 05/14 - Circulating levels of endothelial adhesion molecules linked to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes
- 05/11 - Alanine aminotransferase as an indicator of future metabolic derangements in a population-based study
- 05/10 - Untreated masked hypertensive subjects detected by home blood pressure measurement at increased risk for subclinical arterial damage
- 05/09 - Increasing body mass index from age 5 to 14 years associated with increased risk of asthma symptoms in adolescence
- 05/07 - Increased risk of cardiovascular disease in subjects with impaired fasting glucose or diabetes driven by multiple metabolic disorders rather than hyperglycaemia per se
- 05/04 - Glomerular hyperfiltration associated with high metabolic risk
- 05/03 - Fitness as a stronger predictor of fasting insulin levels than fatness in overweight male children
- 05/02 - Metabolic syndrome associated with increased mortality risk in Asian population
- 04/30 - Minimal waist circumference is a better indicator of cardiovascular risk than umbilical waist circumference
- 04/27 - Impaired fasting glucose as a metabolic marker of impaired cognitive function in the elderly
- 04/26 - A systematic review on HbA1c as a screening tool for detection of type 2 diabetes
- 04/25 - Changes in weight associated with parallel changes in albuminuria in a population-based longitudinal study
- 04/24 - Increasing incidence of overweight and obesity over 5 decades
- 04/23 - Lifestyle intervention reduces elevated serum retinol binding protein (RBP4) in obese children
- 04/20 - Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN diets: the Atkins diet as a feasible alternative for 12-month weight loss in overweight premenopausal women
- 04/19 - Use of universal BMI and waist cut-points is inappropriate for comparing obesity prevalence among differing ethnic groups
- 04/18 - The Council of Australian Governments agrees AU$200 million to fight type 2 diabetes
- 04/17 - Reduced plasma natriuretic peptide levels as a manifestation of the metabolic syndrome
- 04/16 - A 6-year prospective study on the development of diabetes in Chinese with the metabolic syndrome
- 04/13 - Metabolic syndrome associated with increased risk of venous thromboembolism
- 04/12 - The MedDietScore as a useful tool to detect subjects prone to nutrition-related health conditions and cardiovascular disease
- 04/11 - Serum ferritin as an independent predictor of new-onset type 2 diabetes
- 04/10 - Target organ changes in essential hypertensive patients amplified by the metabolic syndrome across age groups
- 04/06 - Progressive metabolic derangement of glucose tolerance first detected during pregnancy mimics the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes
- 04/05 - Impaired substrate switching and reduced muscle mitochondrial content in subjects with a family history of type 2 diabetes
- 04/04 - Abnormal glucose metabolism linked to cancer risk
- 04/03 - Ethnic-specific criteria needed to predict metabolic risk
- 04/02 - Adiponectin as independent predictor of the metabolic syndrome in overweight Latino youth
- 03/30 - Deleterious alterations in lipid metabolism associated with increased risk of ischaemic stroke in women
- 03/29 - Microalbuminuria as the best predictor of major complication outcomes in type 1 diabetes
- 03/28 - Development and validation of the Reynolds Risk Score for the assessment of global cardiovascular risk in women
- 03/27 - Acquired obesity associated with changes in lipid metabolism independent of genetic effects
- 03/26 - Metabolic and lifestyle factors as major risk factors for diabetes in the Blue Mountains Eye Study
- 03/20 - Association between postprandial glucose and carotid intima media thickness in normoglycaemic women
- 03/19 - Positive correlation between lipoprotein(a), LDL particle size and severity of coronary artery disease
- 03/16 - Inverse relationship between insulin resistance and prostate cancer
- 03/15 - Visceral fat tissue expansion and adipokine secretion associated with systemic inflammation in obese subjects
- 03/14 - Highest prevalences of metabolic syndrome in Pacific people and Maori within a multicultural population in Auckland
- 03/13 - Metabolic syndrome shown to be an independent predictor of arterial stiffness
- 03/12 - Central obesity as an “optional” component identifies more individuals at risk of ischaemic heart disease
- 03/09 - The "hypertriglyceridaemic waist" phenotype as a significant marker of premature coronary artery disease in patients with glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes
- 03/08 - Systolic blood pressure in childhood as a predictor of hypertension and metabolic syndrome in later life
- 03/07 - A defect in brain glucose sensing may play a role in the aetiology of the metabolic syndrome
- 02/21 - Chronic work stress linked to general and central obesity
- 02/20 - Dietary energy density as an independent predictor of obesity, elevated fasting insulin, and metabolic syndrome in US adults
- 02/19 - Dramatic increase in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Finnish young adults
- 02/04 - C-reactive protein as an "intermediate phenotype" for inflammation
- 02/03 - Fat cell enlargement as an independent marker of insulin resistance in non-diabetic subjects
- 02/02 - Positive association between obesity and ovarian cancer
- 02/01 - Metabolic syndrome shown to enhance sympathetic activation in congestive heart failure
- 01/31 - Metabolic syndrome as independent risk factor for erectile dysfunction in a large cohort study
- 01/30 - High prevalence of metabolic syndrome in HIV infected patients receiving protease inhibitors
- 01/29 - Human gut microbes associated with obesity
- 01/28 - Gut microbiota as an additional contributing factor to the pathophysiology of obesity
- 01/27 - Childhood overweight associated with cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood
- 01/26 - TV viewing associated with obesity and some metabolic-risk factors
- 01/25 - Association of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance with congestive heart failure
- 01/18 - Dramatic increase in prevalence and incidence rates of diabetes and impaired glucose regulation over the last decades in a Chinese adult population
- 01/17 - Low adiponectin levels, but not resistin, as significant risk factor for the development of cardiovascular events in Korean patients with type 2 diabetes
- 01/16 - Garlic powder shown to have no significant effect on C-reactive protein and plasma lipids in overweight and smoking subjects
- 01/15 - Simple measures for stratifying postmenopausal women into groups at high and low risk of dying
- 01/14 - Lifestyle intervention shown to reduce multiple metabolic risk factors of coronary artery disease in obese older adults
- 01/13 - Tomatoes’-rich diet shown to increase HDL-cholesterol
- 01/12 - High prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in university students from Chile
- 01/11 - Low levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) associated with impaired glucose metabolism
- 01/10 - Decreased fatty acid availability following exercise training may contribute to improved insulin sensitivity of glucose metabolism
- 01/05 - Overweight and obesity correlated with poor socio-economic status in 4-5-year-old children across Australia
- 01/01 - Higher-than-optimal blood glucose levels as a leading cause for cardiovascular mortality worldwide
2006
- 12/31 - Elevated serum levels of adiponectin associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease
- 12/30 - Increasing trends in waist circumference and waist-height ratio among US children and adolescents
- 12/29 - Breastfeeding in infancy associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes
- 12/15 - The metabolic syndrome as an early intervention target in psychiatric inpatients with psychotic or mood disorders
- 12/14 - Metabolic syndrome associated with haemodynamic, inflammatory and psychological risk factors in a large French population study
- 12/13 - Framingham Risk Score appears to underestimate cardiovascular risk in young patients with myocardial infarction
- 12/12 - High prevalence of coronary heart disease and metabolic syndrome in schizophrenic outpatients treated with antipsychotics
- 12/11 - Lifestyle intervention associated with sustained reduction of type 2 diabetes
- 12/10 - Breastfeeding in infancy associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes
- 12/09 - Increasing trends in waist circumference and waist-height ratio among US children and adolescents
- 12/08 - Elevated serum levels of adiponectin associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease
- 12/07 - Higher-than-optimal blood glucose levels as a leading cause for cardiovascular mortality worldwide
