[HTML][HTML] Obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors: from childhood to adulthood

D Drozdz, J Alvarez-Pitti, M Wójcik, C Borghi… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Obesity has become a major epidemic in the 21st century. It increases the risk of
dyslipidemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes, which are known cardiometabolic risk …

Gene–environment interactions in Alzheimer disease: the emerging role of epigenetics

L Migliore, F Coppedè - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
With the exception of a few monogenic forms, Alzheimer disease (AD) has a complex
aetiology that is likely to involve multiple susceptibility genes and environmental factors. The …

[PDF][PDF] Epigenetics in human obesity and type 2 diabetes

C Ling, T Rönn - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Epigenetic mechanisms control gene activity and the development of an organism. The
epigenome includes DNA methylation, histone modifications, and RNA-mediated processes …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in immune responses

SL Klein, KL Flanagan - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Males and females differ in their immunological responses to foreign and self-antigens and
show distinctions in innate and adaptive immune responses. Certain immunological sex …

Obesity pathogenesis: an endocrine society scientific statement

MW Schwartz, RJ Seeley, LM Zeltser… - Endocrine …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Obesity is among the most common and costly chronic disorders worldwide. Estimates
suggest that in the United States obesity affects one-third of adults, accounts for up to one …

Sex and gender differences in risk, pathophysiology and complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus

A Kautzky-Willer, J Harreiter, G Pacini - Endocrine reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The steep rise of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and associated complications go along
with mounting evidence of clinically important sex and gender differences. T2DM is more …

[HTML][HTML] DMSO induces drastic changes in human cellular processes and epigenetic landscape in vitro

M Verheijen, M Lienhard, Y Schrooders, O Clayton… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Though clinical trials for medical applications of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) reported toxicity
in the 1960s, later, the FDA classified DMSO in the safest solvent category. DMSO became …

Mechanistic pathways of sex differences in cardiovascular disease

V Regitz-Zagrosek, G Kararigas - Physiological reviews, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Major differences between men and women exist in epidemiology, manifestation,
pathophysiology, treatment, and outcome of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as …

[HTML][HTML] Immune dysfunction as a cause and consequence of malnutrition

CD Bourke, JA Berkley, AJ Prendergast - Trends in immunology, 2016 - cell.com
Malnutrition, which encompasses under-and overnutrition, is responsible for an enormous
morbidity and mortality burden globally. Malnutrition results from disordered nutrient …

Sex and gender differences in the outcomes of vaccination over the life course

KL Flanagan, AL Fink, M Plebanski… - Annual review of cell …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Both sex (ie, biological differences) and gender (ie, social or cultural influences) impact
vaccine acceptance, responses, and outcomes. Clinical data illustrate that among children …