OBJECTIVE To determine whether overweight Latino children with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) (> or = 100 mg/dl) have increased insulin resistance or decreased beta-cell function compared with those with normal fasting glucose (NFG). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 207 healthy overweight Latino children, aged 8-13 years, with a family history of type 2 diabetes. Fasting and 2-h glucose...

OBJECTIVES To compare the prevalence and metabolic profiles of glucose tolerance categories according to World Health Organization(WHO) and 1997 American Diabetes Association(ADA) fasting criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose metabolism in the Korean population. METHODS 2251 subjects without previous history of diabetes, who participated in the Yonchon diabetes ...

One of the most common types of functions in mathematics, physics, and engineering is a sum of products, sometimes called a partition function. After “normalization,” a sum of products has a natural graphical representation, called a normal factor graph (NFG), in which vertices represent factors, edges represent internal variables, and half-edges represent the external variables of the partitio...

OBJECTIVES In-hospital outcome after acute myocardial infarction (MI) has not yet been evaluated with regard to the new category of Impaired Fasting Glucose level (IFG) patients defined by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). METHODS Nine hundred and ninety-nine patients with acute MI from the RICO survey were included in the study. Fasting blood glucose was measured after admission. Pati...

High quality graphene production is prerequisite for good performance in nonlinear optics application such as fast optical communications, all-optical switching, and limiting. Graphene journey begins with the method of synthesizing which need to be simple, fast, environmentally friendly. Hence, we introduce by exfoliating graphite electrochemical route produce functionalized various application...

. Propulsion styles that are characterized by high stresses may influence the susceptibility of manual wheelchair users (MWCU) to upper limb injury. An experimental, crosssectional study was designed to compare physiological and biomechanical characteristics of wheelchair propulsion in two groups of MWCU—a trunk flexion propulsion style group (FG) and a non-trunk flexion propulsion style group ...

Although the relationship between diabetes and periodontitis is well established, the association between periodontitis and prediabetes has been investigated less extensively. Furthermore, there has been little research on the prevalence of periodontitis among individuals with prediabetes and diabetes as well as in the overall population using nationally representative data.Among 12,406 adults ...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy is a major life event for women and often connected with changes in diet and lifestyle and natural gestational weight gain. However, excessive weight gain during pregnancy may lead to postpartum weight retention and add to the burden of increasing obesity prevalence. Therefore, it is of interest to examine whether adherence to nutrient recommendations or food-based guidelin...