Abdominal obesity may be defined as excess deposits of fat in the abdominal region. It is a
common health condition seen in South Asians and is positively related to non …

Increased body weight and metabolic disorder including insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes
and cardiovascular complications together constitute metabolic syndrome. The …

Twenty years ago, Rho-kinase was identified as an important downstream effector of the
small GTP-binding protein, RhoA. Thereafter, a series of studies demonstrated the important …

The purpose of the present literature review was to investigate and summarize the current
evidence on associations between dietary patterns and biomarkers of inflammation, as …

Adipose tissue is now recognized as an important endocrine organ, capable of secreting a
large number of endocrine factors which regulate a wide variety of physiological functions …

LIBBY P et al. the procoagulant tissue factor (TF). 2–5 Examples of specific mediators
involved in initiation of atherosclerotic plaques include vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common metabolic disorder predisposing to diabetic
cardiomyopathy and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), which could lead to …

Background—Pulmonary hypertension associated with heart failure with preserved ejection
fraction (PH-HFpEF) is an increasingly recognized clinical complication of metabolic …

The circulating, adipocyte-secreted hormone adiponectin (APN) exerts protective effects on
the heart under stress conditions. The receptors binding APN to cardiac tissue, however …

ABSTRACT ADIPOQ/adiponectin, an adipocytokine secreted by adipocytes in the breast
tumor microenvironment, negatively regulates cancer cell growth hence increased levels of …