INTRODUCTION Approximately 26.3 million people in the United States have chronic kidney disease and many more are at risk of developing the condition. The association between specific metabolic syndrome components and chronic kidney disease in African American individuals is uncertain. METHODS Baseline data from 4,933 participants of the Jackson Heart Study were analyzed. Logistic regression ...

This study was designed to evaluate vitamin D3 and metabolic hormones in hypothyroidism with syndrome without syndrome. Sixty patients were divided into three groups, 30 syndrome, healthy controls compared the patients. There a significant increase tetraiodothyronine, free thyronine very thyroid stimulating hormone women A systolic blood pressure, body mass index, fasting glucose, glycosylated ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of metabolic syndrome and its components in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. STUDY DESIGN Case-series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Neurology, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, from January to June 2012. METHODOLOGY Seventy-five (64 females and 11 males) patients with clinically diagnosed and electrodiagnostically confirmed carpal tunnel syndrom...

OBJECTIVE The incidence of the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising worldwide. Liver-derived fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-21 affects glucose and lipid metabolism. The aim of this study was to analyze the predictive value of FGF-21 on the incidence of T2DM and the metabolic syndrome. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Metabolic Syndrome Berlin Potsdam (MeSyBePo) reca...

Background & Aims: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and risk factors for diabetes, pre-diabetes and metabolic syndrome in first-degree relatives(FDRs) of patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: In a cross-sectional study between 2003 and 2005, 3228 of first-degree relatives of patients with type 2 diabetes (841 men and 2387 women) from Isfahan Endocrine and Metabolism Resear...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the role of inflammatory markers as potential predictors of cardiovascular events in subjects with and without the metabolic syndrome. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a post hoc analysis from the Diet and Omega-3 Intervention Trial (DOIT), comprising 563 elderly men with (n = 221) and without (n = 342) metabolic syndrome. Circulating inf...

Ambient air pollution and temperature have been linked with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Metabolic syndrome and its components-abdominal obesity, elevated fasting blood glucose concentration, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia-predict cardiovascular disease, but the environmental causes are understudied. In this study, we pr...

background: the frequency of sonographic report of liver fat infiltration in asymptomatic person is increasing. the aim of this study was evaluation of liver function and detection of frequency of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in asymptomatic persons with fatty liver in sonographic examinations. materials and methods: seventy six patients with fatty liver in sonographic examination ...