- ►bmj.com JB Meigs - Diabetes Care, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc The concept of a “metabolic syndrome ” conferring increased risk of incident
type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been around for more than a
couple of decades. Recent publication of clinical definitions has ... Cited by 100 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 15 versions
- ►partners.org [PDF] - Free from Publisher JB Meigs, K Williams, LM Sullivan, KJ Hunt, … - Diabetes Care, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS — We assessed the capacity of the metabolic
syndrome (MetS) to identify IGT in a cross-sectional analysis of 3,326 Caucasian
Framingham Offspring Study (FOS), 1,168 Caucasian and 1,812 ... Cited by 47 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
S Nammi, MK Boini, SD Lodagala, RBS … - BMC complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2003 - biomedcentral.com The blood glucose lowering activity of the leaf juice was studied in normal and
alloxan-induced (100 mg/kg, iv) diabetic rabbits, after oral administration at
doses of 0.5, 0.75 and 1.0 ml/kg body weight. Blood samples were collected ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - Cached - All 14 versions
JP Wilding - Diabetic Medicine, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com The recent increase in the prevalence of obesity has been associated with a
coincident rise in the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, whereas weight loss has
been shown to decrease the risk of Type 2 diabetes. The pathophysiological ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org … HC Boshuizen, NJD Nagelkerke, MAM Jacobs … - American journal of epidemiology, 2006 - Oxford Univ Press Studies on a dose-response relation often report separate relative risks for
several risk classes compared with a referent class. When performing a
meta-analysis of such studies, one has to convert these relative risks into ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
- ►kanazawa-u.ac.jp [PDF] Y Murase, K Yagi, M Sugihara, D Chujo, M … - Internal Medicine, 2004 - J-STAGE Objective The optimal approach to relatively recent onset type 2 diabetes
patients is still unknown. We specu- lated that the use of short-acting insulin
analogs might be of particular benefit in this context. Patients and ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
RU Pliquett, M Fasshauer, M Blüher, R … - Cardiovascular diabetology, 2004 - cardiab.com Neurohumoral stimulation comprising both autonomic-nervous-system dysfunction
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MJ Santi, MA CARROZAS, A Barba, A Astola … - Medicina clinica(Ed. impresa), 2005 - cat.inist.fr BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Waist circumference(WC) is a measure of upper body fat
and so should be useful for identifying overweight and obese men at risk of
developing metabolic complications. The objective was to determine the ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - All 5 versions
PE Heldgaard, SJ Griffin - Diabetic Medicine, 2006 - heldgaard.net There remains considerable uncertainty over whether mass population screening
for diabetes would be beneficial [1,2]. Targeted screening among high-risk
groups is more likely to be cost-effective [3–5]. However, as a majority ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 6 versions