there is now clear evidence that the atherosclerotic process begins in childhood. a major and important cause of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (chd) is elevated cholesterol level. in order to clarify the sigificance of elevated total cholesterol (tc) in children who live in tehran, we measured the lipid profiles including tc triglyceride (tg), and high density lipoproteein choleste...

BACKGROUND Pancreatitis induced by hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) has gained much attention. However, very limited numbers of studies have focused on the clinical significance of TG elevation in non-HTG induced pancreatitis, such as acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP). This study aimed to study the clinical significances of triglyceride (TG) elevation in patients with ABP. METHODS We retrospectively...

Difference in thyroid function depending on the etiology of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) was evaluated in 124 Japanese patients on haemodialysis (HD) due to either chronic glomerulonephritis (CGN, n = 82) or lifestyle related systemic disease (non-CGN, n = 42), such as diabetes mellitus (n = 30) or hypertension (n = 12). There was no significant difference in serum free thyroxine, free triiod...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION To clarify the association of the hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype and type 2 diabetes mellitus among adults in China. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the present case-control study, we included 1,685 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and 7,141 normal glucose-tolerant controls from the Henan Province of China in 2011. Elevated waist circumference (GW) was defined as ≥90 cm...

Triglyceride (TG) or more accurately triacylglycerol is simply a compound of three acyl groups (fatty acids) attached to a glycerol molecule. They are easily measured in the laboratory and reported as serum TG level: it actually refers to all of the TG that are being trafficked within all of the lipoproteins that exist in a deciliter of plasma. A physiologic fasting TG concentration is on avera...

Progressive dedifferentiation of thyroid cancer cells leads to a loss of iodine-concentrating ability, with resultant false negative, whole body radioactive iodine scans in approximately 20% of all differentiated metastatic thyroid cancer lesions. We tested the hypothesis that all metastatic thyroid cancer lesions that did not concentrate iodine, but did produce thyroglobulin (Tg), could be loc...

AIM The objective of the article is the evaluation of prevalence of the metabolic syndrome--MS and its components in EUFEST research amongst subjects with Polish nationality. MATERIAL The studied group consisted of 94 patients, aged from 18-40, with the first episode of schizophrenia, schizophreniform or schizoaffective disorders (DSM-IV) never treated with antipsychotics or not longer than f...

Objective(s): This study was to investigate the antihyperlipidemic and antioxidant effect of total flavonoid extract from Actinidia kolomikta (TFAK) in hyperlipidemia induced by a high-fat diet. Materials and Methods: Male SD rats were randomly divided into 6 groups: normal group, model (hyperlipidemic diet) group, hyperlipedemic diet supplemented with TFAK (50, 100 and 200 mg/kg) and simvastat...

Retinoids regulate not only various cell functions including proliferation and differentiation but also glucose and lipid metabolism. After we observed a marked up-regulation of cellular retinol-binding protein-I (CRBP-I) in the liver of hepatitis B virus x antigen (HBx)-transgenic (HBx Tg) mice which are prone to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and fatty liver, we aimed to evaluate retinoid pat...

background: the dramatic increase in the incidence of diabetes and its associated complications require a natural and safe solution to control and delay such complications. the present study tested the hypothesis that probiotics may affect biochemical indices of diabetic patients methods: thirty four types 2 diabetic patients aged between 25 to 65 years, and diagnosed with diabetes for less tha...