OBJECTIVE Since a poor diet is often cited as a contributor to metabolic syndrome for subjects diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, we sought to examine dietary intake, cigarette smoking, and physical activity in these populations and compare them with those for the general population. METHODS Individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder (n = 116) and schizophrenia (n = 143) were...

Background The prevalence of urolithiasis in both infants and children is increasing. The metabolic features contributing to urolithiasis formation in children may vary from those in adult patients. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of urinary metabolic abnormalities and related factors in infants and children with urolit...

Renal anemia and chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) are common in patients with disease (CKD). Blood metabolic biomarkers non-invasive indexes for evaluating renal osteodystrophy. Here the relationships between blood CKD investigated, effects of parathyroidectomy (PTX) on above indices analyzed.

Loss of fatty tissue occurring in a partial or generalized distribution is called as lipodystrophy. Generalized lipodystrophy may be congenital or acquired in nature. Congenital generalized lipodystrophy or Berardinelli-Seip syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized by the near absence of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue from birth or early infancy with s...

Uric acid nephrolithiasis is characteristically a manifestation of a systemic metabolic disorder. It has a prevalence of about 10% among all stone formers, the third most common type of kidney stone in the industrialized world. Uric acid stones form primarily due to an unduly acid urine; less deciding factors are hyperuricosuria and a low urine volume. The vast majority of uric acid stone forme...

Alkaptonuria (AKU) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder of tyrosine metabolism in the liver due to deficiency of homogentisate 1,2 dioxygenase (HGD) activity, resulting in the accumulation of homogentisic acid (HGA). Circulating HGA pass into various tissues through-out the body, mainly in cartilage and connective tissues, where its oxidation products polymerize and deposit as a melanin-...

The concept of subclinical Cushing’s syndrome stands on the presence of adrenocorticotropic hormone-independent subclinical hypercortisolism without a clear Cushingoid phenotype and may be observed in patients with an incidentally found adrenal adenoma [1]. Kim et al. [2] found that the prevalence of subclinical Cushing’s syndrome in Korean patients with adrenal incidentaloma was 7.1% (19 of 26...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is considered a transient nonischemic cardiomyopathy of possible metabolic etiology. Based on the morphology of the left ventricle and presumed etiology, this condition has been described using several different names including transient left ventricular apical ballooning, ampulla cardiomyopathy, stress-induced cardiomyopathy, neurogenic stunned myocardium, broken heart...