objectives: this study was performed to investigate the effect of ω-3 fatty acids on lipid profiles, lipoprotein (a), apolipoprotein a-1 and apolipoprotein b, fasting glucose and insulin, and insulin resistance in a group of iranian elderly subjects. methods & materials: in this clinical trial, 124 elderly residents of the kahrizakcharity foundation, aged 65 and older were divided into two inte...

The effect of sugar feeding on egg-batch size in Aedes aegypti was examined in a way that would distinguish between the roles of a recent sugar meal (full vs. empty crop) and of repeated sugar feeding and digestion (high vs. low energy reserves). Egg numbers of females representing the four combinations of these characteristics (full crop/high reserves, full crop/low reserves, empty crop/high r...

Adult female Aedes aegypti (L.), the vector of dengue and yellow fever viruses, have an affinity for feeding on human blood and a tendency to forego feeding on sugar. This observation challenges two tenets of mosquito biology: (1) mosquitoes imbibe plant carbohydrates for synthesis of energy reserves and blood for reproduction and (2) egg production is reduced when mosquitoes feed on human bloo...

medical profession. But even so, practically all the blood-sugar methods require considerable laboratory facilities and are not suitable for application at the bed-side and in the mofussil. Since the introduction of insulin and the modern developments in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, the estimation of blood-sugar has become essential in this disease. The bloodsugar question is, thus,...

A recent paper by Folin and Svedberg (1) introduces new perplexit,ies in the problem of the distribution of blood sugar between corpuscles and plasma. Until recently the view that the concentration of sugar in corpuscles and in plasma is nearly the same found general acceptance. Expressed in a convenient term this means that the ratio of distribution, corpuscle sugar: plasma sugar, is about uni...

Despite the rising prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Nigeria, population based studies are scarce. This situation is worse rural areas where people typically poor, not very educated and lack good hospitals. We aimed to determine among dwellers Agbani, a semi-urban municipality South East Nigeria. was preliminary, observational, cross-sectional investigation which 400 adults were recruited usin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, a significant source of dietary fructose, is associated with higher serum uric acid levels and blood pressure in adolescents. STUDY DESIGN We analyzed cross-sectional data from 4867 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004. Dietary data were assessed from 24-hour dieta...

FOR some years past much attention has been directed to the determination of carbohydrate tolerance by observing the variations that occur in the sugarcontent of the blood after the ingestion of a known amount of sugar. The value of this method is now universally recognised. It is not intended in this paper to treat the subject in a general way, but merely to consider the actual estimation of s...