Currently, obesity has become a global health issue and is referred to as an epidemic.
Dysfunctional obese adipose tissue plays a pivotal role in the development of insulin …

Abstract Background and aims Metabolic Syndrome (MS) prevalence is increasing
worldwide in line with the growing prevalence of obesity. The underlying mechanism of MS …

For many years, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been the leading cause of death around
the world. Often associated with CVD are comorbidities such as obesity, abnormal lipid …

Excess intra-abdominal adipose tissue accumulation, often termed visceral obesity, is part of
a phenotype including dysfunctional subcutaneous adipose tissue expansion and ectopic …

Oxidative stress plays a pivotal role in the development of diabetes complications, both
microvascular and cardiovascular. The metabolic abnormalities of diabetes cause …

The metabolic syndrome is a condition characterized by a special constellation of reversible
major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The main, diagnostic …

Aims To establish a unified working diagnostic tool for the metabolic syndrome (MetS) that is
convenient to use in clinical practice and that can be used world‐wide so that data from …

OBJECTIVE: Several methods have been proposed to evaluate insulin sensitivity from the
data obtained from the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). However, the validity of these …

ContextThe Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on
Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III) highlights …

Breakthroughs in biochemistry have furthered our understanding of the onset and
progression of various diseases, and have advanced the development of new therapeutics …