INTRODUCTION Insulin resistance is the pathophysiological key to explain metabolic syndrome. Although clearly useful, the Homeostasis Model Assessment index (an insulin resistance measurement) has not been systematically applied in clinical practice. One of the main reasons is the discrepancy in cut-off values reported in different populations. We sought to evaluate in a Portuguese population t...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION To examine the association between liver histological features and organ-specific insulin resistance indices calculated from 75-g oral glucose tolerance test data in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Liver biopsy specimens were obtained from 72 patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and were scored for steatosis, grade and stage...

BACKGROUND Obesity in children is now an increasing health risk worldwide in which the insulin-resistance can be present. Studies have linked a diet rich in n-3 fatty acids with a lower prevalence of insulin-resistance. OBJECTIVE To compare the levels of eicosapentaenoic acid among obese children with and without insulin-resistance. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 56 randomly school-age children w...

tory distress syndrome; CI cardiac index; CPB cardiopulmonary bypass; CPDA citrate phosphate dextrose adenine; EF = ejection fraction; IMA internal mammary artery; LAD = left anterior descending artery; LE lung edema; LVSWI = left ventricular stroke work index; PCWP pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; PVR pulmonary vascular resistance; RCA right coronary artery; RVSWI right yentricular stroke w...

Although there is a strong correlation between oral/oro-nasal breathing and apnoea/hypopnoea index in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and normal nasal resistance at wakefulness, it remains unknown whether the pharmacological prevention of potential nasal obstruction during sleep could decrease oral/oro-nasal breathing and increase nasal breathing and subsequently decrease the apnoea/hypo...

in order to evaluate the utilization ability of drought resistance indices such as: yield index (yi), yield stability index (ysi), stress susceptibility index (ssi), tolerance (tol), mean productivity (mp), geometric mean productivity (gmp) and stress tolerance index (sti) in sunflower hybrids, three separate experiments were conducted as randomized complete block design at the research field o...

background: polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), a common endocrine disorder, is associated with infertility, menstrual dysfunction, hirsutism and frequent miscarriages. insulin resistance, as a major cause of pcos, represents a disorder with increase in inflammatory markers and risk of type 2 diabetes. we aimed to investigate whether inflammatory markers, including c-reactive protein and c3 (comp...

Objective: The overweight-related health problems among adolescents are obvious. Resistance training is recognized as a safe and efficacious exercise modality to have health-promoting effects in overweight adolescents. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of circuit resistance training (CRT) in improving inflammatory status, insulin resistance and body composition in overweight male adolesce...