... to determine the adjuvant effect of Nigella sativa oil on various clinical and biochemical parameters of the metabolic syndrome. Methodology: This prospective study was conducted at a tertiary health care centre in North India. After final diagnosis and considering inclusion and exclusion criteria, sixty...

... groups: type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or comparison. Disease severity was classified as: no disease, subclinical disease (lesions <70%), or clinically significant disease (lesions >70%). Plaque morphology was stratified as either vulnerable or stable plaque by Houndsfield units...

... to determine the adiponectin level and its relations to key components of the metabolic syndrome in obese diabetic (OD), obese non-diabetic (OB) and control [non-obese, non-diabetic (NOND)] Qatari subjects. Research design and Methods: We examined 64 (OD), 61 (OB) and 72 (NOND) male and female subjects. After...

...Abbas Ali Mansour A.A.; Aymen A. Al-Hassan A.A.; Meelad Imad Al-Jazairi M.I. Background: Determination of cutoff points for waist circumference (WC) is of paramount importance for prevention, optimum management, and prognosis of obesity, the metabolic syndrome (MetS), type 2 diabetes mellitus...

...C. Savona-Ventura; K. Zammit; S. Vella A number of studies have associated the adult-onset disease state of Metabolic Syndrome with either a low or a high birth weight. This has been correlated to alterations in the intrauterine milieu causing changes in pancreatic and hypothalamic development...

... women. Age, socioeconomic status (SES), fasting plasma insulin, and blood pressure were each associated with obesity (BMI > 30) or central obesity (WC > 88 cm). Several risk factors for the metabolic syndrome (high glucose, insulin, TG, CHOL, BP and WC) were prevalent in association with high BMI...

... 2 diabetic patients. We investigated serum lipid profiles, Lpa levels and metabolic syndrome findings in type 2 diabetic patients. In this prospective trial, 709 type 2 diabetic patients (407 F; 302 M) and 157 healthy control subjects (91F; 66M) living in the same geographic region were included...

...Jerónimo Jurado; Josep M. García; Ignàsi Gich; José M. Pou The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different levels of previously received diabetes education on metabolic control, cardiovascular disease (CVD) with many CVD risk factors (CVRF), components of metabolic syndrome (MS...

..., increases the susceptibility to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Objectives: The main objective of the present study was to investigate the association of ENPP1 K121Q polymorphism with the pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a north Indian population. Methods: A total of 567 participants...