background: insulin resistance has an important role in pathophysiology of polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos). yet there are certain controversies regarding the presence of insulin resistance in non-obese patients. objective: the aim was to compare the insulin resistance and various endocrine and metabolic abnormalities in obese and non-obese pcos women.materials and methods: in this cross-sect...

Background and Objective: Dyslipidemia has become a common problem in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease, especially in patients on combination antiretroviral therapy. In this study we aimed to determine the prevalence of dyslipidemia and metabolic abnormalities in 2 groups of HIV infected patients receiving highly activ...

dyslipidemia has become a common problem in human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) disease, especially in patients on combination antiretroviral therapy. we investigated the prevalence of and factors associated with dyslipidemia in hiv-infected patients in iran. in this cross-sectional study, 190 hiv positive patients who referring to behavioral disease consulting centers (shemiranat, varamin) and ...

Metabolic disorders are complex abnormalities involving impaired glucose and lipid metabolism, associated with complications such as kidney disease, cardiovascular foot ulcer, retinopathy, neuropathy [...]

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities, including central obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. Parathyroid diseases are group disorders that affect the parathyroid glands’ function, which regulates body’s calcium phosphorus levels. There growing evidence may be associated with syndrome. body suggesting possible association between Hyperparathyroidism ...

Credit for having first described the phenomenon which was later to be termed "starvation diabetes" or "hunger diabetes" is properly ascribed to Claude Bernard. In his Lefons sur les proprietes physiologiques et les alte'rations pathologiques des liquides de l'organisme, published in 1859, he writes:' "It is possible to make an animal diabetic by making it absorb carbohydrate under certain circ...

70 Many advances have been made in understanding the pathogenesis and progression of HIV disease, developing effective antiretroviral agents and regimens, learning how best to use these regimens for prolonged maximal viral suppression, lowering the pill burden of regimens, and managing many acute adverse effects of treatment. The problems for many patients on long-term effective antiretroviral ...

We attempted to determine sex differences in obesity-related metabolic abnormalities in a relatively large middle-aged Japanese population. The study population consisted of 2935 men and 1622 women who were 35 to 59 years old. Metabolic abnormalities were determined using the Japanese criteria for metabolic syndrome, and we evaluated the number of metabolic abnormalities discriminated by waist ...