OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between serum concentrations of complement factor-3 (C3) with anthropometric, biochemical, and lifestyle features in healthy young adults. METHODS From 157 young healthy adults 18 to 35 y old, anthropometric measurements and body composition, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, and lifestyle data were collected and analyzed. Blood samples were collect...

The role of bicarbonated mineral waters on lipid metabolism and lipoprotein concentrations in man has scarcely been investigated. The present study aimed to investigate whether drinking sodium bicarbonated mineral water affects postprandial cholesterol and triacylglycerol metabolism in postmenopausal women. In a three-way, randomised, crossover study, eighteen healthy postmenopausal women consu...

BACKGROUND Both nutritional and genetic factors are involved in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance. OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess the effects of fructose, a potent stimulator of hepatic de novo lipogenesis, on intrahepatocellular lipids (IHCLs) and insulin sensitivity in healthy offspring of patients with type 2 diabetes (OffT2D)--a subgroup of indiv...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the applicability of a previously developed method for the analysis of triacylglycerol molecular species to the simultaneous determination of triacylglycerols, diacylglycerols and monoacylglycerols of human very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL). Ten elderly women were recruited for the study. Blood was obtained in fasting conditions and VLDL were i...

It has recently been reported that carriers of the less common allele at the scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) exon 1 polymorphism are more susceptible to the presence of saturated fatty acid in the diet because of a greater increase in LDL cholesterol. Our aim was to determine if this polymorphism could also influence postprandial lipoprotein metabolism, because the SR-BI has been desc...

Two-phase equilibrium data was measured for carbon dioxide with triacylglycerols from crude palm oil using a phase equilibrium loading re-circulating high-pressure type apparatus at various pressures and at temperatures of 80, 100 and 120°C. According to this research, it concluded that the highest extraction in term of vapor phase was carried out at a middle pressure (P=5.4 MPa) and at tempera...