Background and aim: Presence of metabolic syndrome along with inflammatory diseases is being reported with increased frequency. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of metabolic syndrome in inflammatory bowel disease patients. Materials and methods: Fifty-one patients with ulcerative colitis, 34 patients with Crohn’s disease and 88 healthy controls were included in this study. ...

BACKGROUND To assess the utility of clinical definitions of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) to identify individuals with increased cardiovascular risk, we examined the relation between the MetS, using both the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) and the World Health Organization definitions, and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in San Antonio Heart Study participants enrolled betw...

in this study, the adsorption of thallium (iii) ion from aqueous solutions onto modified znonanopowder as a fairly low cost adsorbent has been investigated in batch mode. it was found thatmodification of the adsorbent was essential for obtaining the significant adsorption percentage. theadsorbent modified by sodium phosphate solution. the effect of experimental parameters such asinitial ph of s...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of metabolic syndrome in type 2 diabetes according to three commonly used operational definitions {World Health Organization (WHO), National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel (NCEP ATP III) and International Diabetes Federation( IDF)}. To evaluate the agreement between these classifications in the Pakistani cohort. METHODS Data was colle...

Background. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) within individual cohorts varies with the definition used. The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of MetS between IDF and revised NCEP ATP III criteria in an urban Sri Lankan population and to investigate the characteristics of discrepant cases. Methods. 2985 individuals, aged 35-65 years, were recruited to the study. Anthropo...

BACKGROUND The prevalence estimates of statin eligibility among Hispanic/Latinos living in the United States under the new 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) cholesterol treatment guidelines are not known. METHODS AND RESULTS We estimated prevalence of statin eligibility under 2013 ACC/AHA and 3rd National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Pan...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In 2005, the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP-ATP III) guideline lowered the fasting glucose cut point used to define metabolic syndrome (MS). This study investigated the influence of MS on ischemic stroke (IS) risk using both the original and revised definitions. In addition, because abdominal obesity is the measure of obesity used i...

OBJECTIVE This study analyzed which definition of the metabolic syndrome is more predictive of cardiovascular events in both diabetic and nondiabetic members of a population-based sample. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A 10-year, longitudinal follow-up of the Strong Heart Study cohort has been evaluated. The analysis included 3,945 participants (2,384 female) with complete data (1,700 with diabe...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and the agreement of different diagnostic criteria for MS proposed by CDS (2004), IDF (2005) and NCEP-ATP III (2005). METHODS A crosssectional study of MS included 16,953 participants aged 35-74 was conducted in rural Henan Province in 2007 and 2008. The prevalence of MS was calculated by the three criteria and Kappa statistics wa...