- Free from Publisher JC Pickup - Diabetes care, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc There is increasing evidence that an ongoing cytokine-induced acute-phase
response (sometimes called low-grade inflammation, but part of a widespread
activation of the innate immune system) is closely involved in the ... Cited by 362 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►endojournals.org R Retnakaran, AJG Hanley, N Raif, PW … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2003 - Endocrine Soc Acute-phase biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and IL-6 have emerged as
predictors of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus, implicating chronic subclinical
inflammation as a factor in the pathophysiology of diabetes. Gestational ... Cited by 95 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►endojournals.org LA Vazquez, F Pazos, JR Berrazueta, C … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2005 - Endocrine Soc Metabolic alterations such as insulin resistance are thought to underlie the
endothelial dysfunction and low grade inflammation found in morbid obesity.
Twenty-six morbidly obese patients, aged 39.0 ± 10.0 (mean ± SD), were ... Cited by 72 - Related articles - All 5 versions
MI Schmidt, BB Duncan - Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 2003 - reference-global.com Diabesity, that is to say, obesity-dependent diabetes, has emerged as a major
public health problem. Though diabesity is basically explained by insulin
resistance and pancreatic cell dysfunction, new paradigms have evolved to ... Cited by 59 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
M Crook - Diabetic medicine, 2004 - pt.wkhealth.com There are predictions that Type 2 diabetes mellitus could increase world wide to
over 300 million individuals within the next decade or so. A few years ago, a
hypothesis was proposed, suggesting that elements of the innate immune ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
H Chen - Pharmacological research, 2006 - Elsevier Type 2 diabetes is rapidly becoming a worldwide epidemic. Obesity and sedentary
lifestyle are the main environmental causes for the development of insulin
resistance and type 2 diabetes. In the past decade, it has been ... Cited by 32 - Related articles - All 4 versions
BB Duncan, MI Schmidt - Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 2006 - liebertonline.com The fattening of the human species and the accompanying emergence of the
metabolic syn- drome and of type 2 diabetes as remarkably frequent clinical
entities are among the major epi- demiologic events of our time. Control of ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
P Noussitou, D Monbaron, Y Vial, RC Gaillard, … - Diabetes and Metabolism, 2005 - Elsevier For 5788 deliveries, 159 women (2.7%) with GDM were identified. Constituents of
the MS were present before GDM pregnancy in 26% (n = 37/144): 84% (n = 31/37)
were obese, 38% (n = 14/37) had hypertension and 22% (n = 8/37) had ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- Free from Publisher JL Kitzmiller, L Dang-Kilduff, MM Taslimi - Diabetes Care, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc After the intensified treatment often required for treating gestational diabetes
mellitus (GDM), clinicians may be tempted to relax after delivery of the baby.
If it is assumed that no further management is needed, an excellent ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
M Gavella, V Lipovac, A Car, M Vučić, L … - Acta diabetologica, 2003 - Springer Abstract Several general population studies and those car- ried out in diabetic
patients with complications have point- ed to serum sialic acid as a marker of
inflammation in ath- erosclerosis. In this study we examined whether total ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
