BACKGROUND Elevated liver enzymes are markers of liver steatosis and metabolic syndrome. We aimed to investigate the association of Mediterranean diet on the relationship between aminotransferases (i.e., AST, ALT, gGT) and the metabolic syndrome. METHODS The ATTICA study has randomly enrolled 1514 adult males (18-87 yrs) and 1528 females (18-89 yrs) from the greater area of Athens. Adherence ...

Departments of Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei. Received: 15 March 2001. Revised: 19 April 2001. Accepted: 8 May 2001. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Ping-Hung Kuo, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan. SERIAL ANALYSIS OF FAT-CONTAINING MACROPHAGES IN BRON...

Fat embolism syndrome is a rare and potentially lethal complication most commonly seen in long bone fractures and intramedullary manipulation. The clinical triad of fat embolism syndrome consists of mental confusion, respiratory distress, and petechiae. This study reports a case of cerebral fat embolism syndrome following elective bilateral total knee replacement. After an uneventful anesthesia...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether an imbalance between the visceral and subcutaneous fat depots and a corresponding dysregulation of the adipokine milieu is associated with excessive accumulation of fat in the liver and muscle and ultimately with insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We stratified our multi-ethnic cohort of 118 obese adolescents into tertiles b...

Lipodystrophy syndrome (LD) is common in HIV-infected children, particularly those taking didanosine, stavudine or zidovudine. Lipo-atrophy in particular causes major stigmatisation and interferes with adherence. In addition, LD may have significant long-term health consequences, particularly cardiovascular. Since the stigmatising fat distribution changes of LD are largely permanent, the focus ...

Fat embolism syndrome is a collection of respiratory, haematological, neurological and cutaneous symptoms and signs associated with trauma and other disparate surgical and medical conditions. The incidence of the clinical syndrome is low (< 1% in retrospective reviews) whilst the embolisation of marrow fat appears to be an almost inevitable consequence of long bone fractures. There is debate ov...

Genetic and environmental factors, including the in utero environment, contribute to Metabolic Syndrome. Exposure to high fat diet exposure in utero and lactation increases incidence of Metabolic Syndrome in offspring. Using GLUT4 heterozygous (G4+/-) mice, genetically predisposed to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and wild-type littermates we demonstrate genotype specific differences to high fat in ...

Background Previous studies have focused on a single or few dietary nutrients, and scarce data is available on dietary patterns related to infertility. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the relation between female ovulatory infertility and major dietary patterns among women attending fertility clinics. MaterialsAndMethods This case-control study was conducted on 167 infertile women with PCOS a...

The fat embolism syndrome, often a complication of major trauma, frequently passes undiagnosed. The classical picture of cerebral confusion, respiratory distress and petechiae of skin and mucosa is not always seen. A distinction must be made between the clinical entity and fat embolism demonstrated pathologically. Post-mortem, fat embolism is often found after deaths from causes other than trau...

W e read with interest the article by Freire et al. (1), which implicates that total dietary fat might increase the risk for metabolic syndrome. Conversely, they discovered an inverse relationship between linoleic acid intake and the metabolic syndrome. These data add to the mounting evidence describing the association between high dietary fat intake and features of metabolic syndrome either al...