PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to estimate the presence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in a group of children and adolescents with a body mass index (BMI) above the 85th percentile for their age and sex in Qazvin Province, Iran; to evaluate the relationship between obesity and metabolic abnormalities; and to compare two proposed definitions of MS. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study was conduct...

BACKGROUND Data is sparse concerning the magnitude of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in developing countries like Ethiopia whose major health problem had long been under-nutrition and infectious diseases rather than non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including hypertension, obesity and MetS. However, it is obvious that the NCDs are recently taking over and becoming the major health care concerns in th...

ATP-driven translocation of helicases along DNA can be assayed in several ways. Reagentless biosensors, based on fluorophore-protein adducts, provide convenient ways for real-time assays of both the separation of dsDNA and the hydrolysis of ATP. Single-stranded DNA can be assayed using a modified single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), and phosphate production during ATP hydrolysis can be me...

OBJECTIVE To assess the potential clinical utility of in-vivo 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in patients with various malignant and benign breast lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventeen patients with untreated primary malignant breast lesions (group I), eight patients with untreated benign breast lesions (group II) and seven normal breasts (group III) were included in this study. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Prevalence of metabolic syndrome is high among Asians including Indians. Scarce information is available about the magnitude of metabolic syndrome in rural areas and hence present study in rural area of Wardha district, central India. METHODS In 300 randomly selected subjects, blood pressure and anthropometric measurements such as height, weight, waist circumference ...

Abstract Background Ex vivo and in detection imaging of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is critically important for the diagnosis treatment diseases, which still remains challenges up to present. Results We herein demonstrate that ATP could be fluorescently detected imaged ex vivo. In particular, we fabricate a kind fluorescent probes, are made titanium carbide (TC) nanosheets modified with ROX-ta...

Dr. Gerald Reaven’s report (1 ) of the death of the metabolic syndrome may be exaggerated. Whether his obituary relates specifically to the National Cholesterol Education Program’s Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) (2 ) definition of metabolic syndrome or to all attempts at making a clinical definition of the metabolic syndrome is unclear. Regardless, he does a thorough autopsy on the ATP III...

OBJECTIVE The ability of the Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) criteria of metabolic syndrome to identify insulin-resistant subjects at increased cardiovascular risk is suboptimal, especially in the absence of obesity and diabetes. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with insulin resistance and is emerging as an independent cardiovascular risk factor. We compared the streng...

The aims of this study were to compare the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome according to the WHO and NCEP ATP III criteria in Korean adults, and to compare the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome with the results in previous Korean studies. The study comprised 1,230 subjects (627 men, 603 women) aged 30-79 years (mean 52.4 +/- 10.3 years) who underwent medical check-up from April to June, ...