BACKGROUND AND AIMS Among fruits, kiwi is one of the richest in vitamins and polyphenols and has strong anti-oxidant effects. We aimed to analyze the relationship between the consumption of kiwi and plasma lipid values, fibrinogen, and insulin resistance in adults within the context of a normal diet and physical-activity. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Participants (N = 1469), who were free o...

Background and Aims:Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease is a new concept to replace NAFLD as it truly reflects metabolic dysregulation associated with liver. The aim of the study find predictors insulin resistance in term mid upper arm circumference triceps fold thickness MAFLD subjects.
 Methods Results: This cross sectional was conducted at King Edward Medical University...

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of metabolically related cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors that increases the risk of CVD by 2-fold and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus by 3-fold. The underlying pathophysiology is thought to be related to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance. Other associated pathophysiologic conditions are physical inactivity, aging, and polycystic o...

Recreational physical exercise in the water is predominantly based on aerobic metabolism. Since it involves both carbohydrate and lipid sources of energy, aqua aerobics has a beneficial effect on metabolism of these substrates. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of a 3 month aqua aerobics training program on the metabolic profile of women with abdominal obesity. The study sample comp...

Asprosin was discovered to be an innovative hormone that is complemented in “adipose tissue” as well abnormally elevated human and mice which are resistant insulin. Nevertheless, data on the contribution of asprosin development DM (T2DM) still largely missing. Consequently, main aim this trial compare serum concentration people with T2DM those apparently healthy individuals who reside Duhok dis...

The epidemic of obesity and its related chronic diseases has provoked interest in the predictors of eating behavior. Eating in response to stress has been extensively examined, but currently unclear is whether stress eating is associated with obesity and morbidity. We tested whether self-reported stress eating was associated with worse glucose metabolism among nondiabetic adults as well as with...

Background Insulin resistance and glucose dysmetabolism in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are related with the polymorphisms in the genes encoding the insulin receptor substrate (IRS) proteins, especially Gly972Arg/Ala513Pro polymorphism being reported to be associated with type-2 diabetes and PCOS. We intended to assess the prevalence of abnormal glucose tolerance (AGT) and insulin resistanc...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether HDL-C level in pregnant Chinese Han women of late second trimester correlated with loci in high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C)-related genes found in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). METHODS Seven single-nucleotide polymorphisms (rs3764261 in CETP, rs1532085 in LIPC, rs7241918 in LIPG, rs1883025 in ABCA1, rs4225 in APOC3, rs1059611 in LPL, and ...

AIM To evaluate the influence of selected maternal and neonatal characteristics on aorta walls in term, appropriately grown-for-gestational age newborns. METHODS Age, parity, previous abortions, weight, height, body mass index before and after delivery, smoking, and history of hypertension, of diabetes, of cardiovascular diseases, and of dyslipidemia were all assessed in seventy mothers. They...