OBJECTIVE To determine whether facial morphology is associated with fasting insulin, glucose and lipids independent of body mass index (BMI) in adolescents. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study. SETTING Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), South West of England. PARTICIPANTS From the ALSPAC database of 4747 three-dimensional facial laser scans, collected duri...

Cardiovascular morbidity and morality is higher in diabetics with proteinuria. The causative factors for such incidence are as yet not known. We studied lipid profiles among non-insulindependent diabetics with proteinuria who otherwise have normal blood urea and serum creatinine concentrations and compared the results with those who did not have proteinuria. Twenty four-hour protein estimations...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to establish blood glucose and lipid profile of Makerere University undergraduate students. STUDY DESIGN This was a cross-sectional study. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 183 students participated in the study. Capillary blood glucose was read instantly on a finger prick sample off Sensorex glucose analyzer. Venous blood from the antecubital vein wa...

Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) plays an essential role in the regulation of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) and triglyceride levels, which have been closely associated with cardiovascular diseases. Genetic studies in European have shown that LPL single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are strongly associated with lipid levels. However, studies about the influence of interactions between LP...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 12-week exercise training on circulating retinol-binding protein 4 (RBP4) concentration and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in obese men. METHODS 29 obese men (age 48 ± 2 years; BMI 29.6 ± 0.7 kg/m(2)) participated in a 12-week exercise program (50-70% maximal heart rates; 3 times/week) without calorie restrict...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is often synonymous with glycemic control emphasis on maintaining and following up glucose control. Most international guidelines recommended that screening for dyslipidemia as a cardiovascular risk factor should begin at around puberty. Over the last decade, there have been various studies in different regions of world regarding prevalence pattern T1D. Recent early 2 year...

Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 120+6g were divided into five groups. The first group kept as normal control (-ve) group (n= 8 rats) which fed on basal diet only. The rest of rats were administered paracetamol drug at a single dose of 2 g/kg by stomach tube to induce liver injury then classified into four groups. One of them acted as control (+ve) and the other three treated groups were...

Oxidative stress and overwhelming free radicals associated with diabetes mellitus are likely to be linked with development of certain complication such as retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. Treatment of diabetic subjects with antioxidant may be of advantage in attenuating these complications. Olive leaf (Oleaeuropaea), has been endowed with many beneficial and health promoting properties ...

The pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) seems to involve genetic susceptibility to neurodegeneration. APOE gene has been considered a risk factor for PD. This study aimed to evaluate the association of APOE polymorphism with PD and its influence on lipid profile. We studied 232 PD patients (PD) and 169 individuals without the disease. The studied polymorphism was analyzed by PCR/RFLP. The ...

We consider the veriication of a particular class of innnite-state systems, namely systems consisting of nite-state processes that communicate via unbounded lossy FIFO channels. This class is able to model e.g. link protocols such as the Alternating Bit Protocol and HDLC. In an earlier paper, we showed that several interesting veriication problems are decidable for this class of systems, namely...