Reports of diabetes, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemia, and dyslipidemias in patients treated with atypical antipsychotics have increased in recent years. This increase has led to growing concern about a possible link between these metabolic effects and atypical antipsychotic therapy. This review article provides an overview of the evidence for an association between glucose and lipid dysreg...

CME 2004 Introduction In diabetes mellitus, morbidity and mortality secondary to cardiovascular diseases has increased these days since the morbidity and mortality related to infections and ketosis has decreased. Diabetics mellitus (DM) has a greater prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD), cardiomyopathy and congestive cardiac failure.1 Metabolic abnormalities and dyslipidemias associated ...

Background: Obesity in children and adolescents has increased exponentially around the world. Furthermore, COVID-19 pandemic led to a higher pediatric obesity rate. The excess adipose tissue generates dysregulation of adiponectin, ghrelin, leptin, among others. Metabolic alterations can develop cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemias, arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, nonalcoholic ...

Xanthomas are common cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions that occur due to altered metabolic or endocrinal function. They are found on skin and around tendon sheaths in individuals with dyslipidemias. In extremely rare cases, they can present as isolated intrabony lesions in otherwise healthy individuals. The isolated intrabony lesions are referred to as primary xanthomas. This report describes ...

tamarindus indica is used as a traditional treatment for diabetes. to elucidate whether tamarindus indica seed aqueous extract (tse) ameliorates metabolic syndrome in hyperinsulinemic rats, we evaluated serum insulin, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (dheas), triglyceride (tg), total cholesterol (tc), very low density lipoprotein (vldl), low density lipoprotein (ldl), high density lipoprotein (hd...