Aim: to obtain a depiction of insulin resistance and to determine the correlation between age, body mass index, and insulin resistance, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in elderly women living in nursing homes. Methods: ninety two elderly females with an average age of 71.4 (SD 7.45) who did not suffer from chronic renal disease or chronic liver disease and were not taking corticosteroi...

Disorders of metabolic homeostasis including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidemias are characterized by both insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction.1 Insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction are also prominent features of important cardiovascular disorders including hypertension, coronary artery disease, and atherosclerosis.2 Indeed, insulin resistance is thought to be the t...

Background: With the increased survival rates following the treatment of childhood cancer, it becomes equally important that the need for evidence based surveillance of long term effects of cancer therapy is addressed. This includes the risk of development of metabolic syndrome features like obesity, altered lipid and sugar profile, which was attempted in the present study. Materials and Metho...

BACKGROUND Insulin resistance is the primary metabolic disorder associated with obesity; yet little is known about its role as a determinant of the metabolic syndrome in obese children. The aim of this study is to assess the association between the degree of insulin resistance and the different components of the metabolic syndrome among obese children and adolescents. METHODS An analytical, c...

The yeast strains that are resistant to high concentration of ethanol have biotechnological benefits and aresuitable models for physiology and molecular genetics research fields. A novel ethanol-tolerant mutant strain,mut1, derived from the commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed higher ethanol production, and alsodemonstrated resistance to ethanol but not to other alcohols...

BACKGROUND: Equine metabolic syndrome is an endocrinopathy that affects different breeds of horses and ponies. This metabolic disorder is a multifactorial syndrome and it is primarily linked to obesity, dyslipidemia and insulin resistance. OBJECTIVES: The present study was performed to evaluate insulin resistance in Darehshori horses with regards to age, sex, season and obesity. METHODS: Twelve...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance at the time of diagnosis on the known prognostic factors of breast cancer in postmenopausal breast cancer patients. METHODS The study included 71 patients with a recent diagnosis of postmenopausal breast cancer, admitted at the Medical Oncology outpatient clinic of the Izmir Ataturk Traini...