INTRODUCTION There is recent interest surrounding the use of the triglyceride-to-HDL cholesterol ratio as a surrogate marker of insulin resistance in clinical practice, as it may identify people at high risk of developing diabetes or its complications. However, it has been suggested using this lipid ratio may not be appropriate for measuring insulin resistance in African-Americans, particularly...

Obesity is a condition of excess body fat mass with cardiometabolic complications. The levels serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) decrease in obesity because it stored adipose tissue compartments and related to dyslipidemia conditions. A high triglyceride/HDL-cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) ratio dyslipidemia. Visceral Adiposity Index (VAI) one the parameters indicating central visceral distribution Thi...

To test whether estrogen can modulate the cholesterolemic response to an Occidental diet, six healthy postmenopausal women were studied for 84 days while ingesting a solid food diet of constant composition high in cholesterol content (995 mg/d). In the middle of the study, estrogen (17 alpha-ethinyl estradiol, 1 microgram/kg per day) was administered orally. Ingestion of the diet for the initia...

background: one of the main laboratory tests for evaluation of infertility is semen analysis (sa). however additional tests may be suggested for further diagnosis of male fertility potentials. the seminal fluid contains sperms non-sperm cells and various types of lipids and glucose. objective: the objective of this cross-sectional study was to correlate the sperm parameters with concentrations ...

The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Gerona, Spain, is high for the low myocardial infarction incidence and mortality rates in the province. Physical activity is a protective factor against coronary heart disease. We investigated whether the genetic variants Q and R of the paraoxonase Gln-Arg 192 polymorphism were involved in different responses of lipids to physical activity. Serum...

background: some coincidental disorders with migraine have been introduced that may have role in its pathogenesis or aggravation. in this study we determined the relative frequency of hyperlipidemia as a coincidental disorder in patients affected by migraine. methods: a total of 102 migraine-affected patients according to international headache society (his) criteria and 103 control subjects ad...

Objective: Hyperlipidemia has been described as one of the greatest risk factors contributing to prevalence and severity cardiovascular diseases which identified a primary cause death. This study evaluates lipid-lowering effects aqueous extract Emilia praetermissa (EP) leaves.
 Methods: The investigation was carried out on rats induced with Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4 1 ml/kg body weight), ...

SUMMARY In order to investigate the relationship between addiction to opium and the levels of lipids in human serum. This project was carried out in Tehran in the year 1373/1994. 55 opium addicts and 70 non-addicts (controls) were examined for the levels of cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL -C and LDL-C. The samples and the controls were all matched and the only difference was that the samples w...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate environmental, psychological and physiological stresses in college teachers and housewives, and to correlate with their serum total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. METHODS This cohort study was performed at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan during 2003-2005. Eighty females from middle socioe...