Abstract Background Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. The objective of the study was to evaluate updated prevalence MetS and provide comprehensive illustration possible temporal changes in China from 2011 2015. Methods data this are 2015 waves Health Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). CHARLS nationally representative survey targeting populations ...

Water proton nuclear relaxation measurements are used to detect and characterize four distinct intermediate states for Gd3+ bound to Ca2+ sites of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase in complexes with ATP analogues. In the absence of nucleotides, Gd3+ binds to two occluded Ca2+ transport sites on Ca2+-ATPase which have a low accessibility to solvent water. In the presence of the nonhydrolyzable ...

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. ...

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...

A clustering of insulin resistance, hypertension and dyslipidemia has been labeled as the metabolic syndrome. Asians have a lower frequency of obesity than do Caucasians, but have an increasing tendency toward metabolic syndrome. Most data on metabolic syndrome are based on studies from Western countries with only limited information derived from Asian populations. We conducted a cross-sectiona...