- ►nih.gov EE Frezza, MS Wachtel, M Chiriva-Internati - British Medical Journal, 2006 - gut.bmj.com Insulin is the best established biochemical mediator between obesity and colon
cancer. Hyperinsulinaemia, such as occurs in type II diabetes, is important in
the pathogenesis of colon cancer. All adipose tissue is not equal. Visceral ... Cited by 75 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
S Sandeep, K Velmurugan, R Deepa, V … - Metabolism, 2007 - Elsevier To investigate the role of the novel adipokine visfatin in type 2 diabetes
mellitus and obesity and to examine its association with visceral and
subcutaneous fat in Asian Indians, who have increased susceptibility to ... Cited by 37 - Related articles - All 11 versions
V Mohan, R Deepa, M Deepa, S Somannavar, … - JAPI, 2005 - japi.org Aim : The aim of this study was to develop and validate a simplified Indian
Diabetes Risk Score for detecting undiagnosed diabetes in India. Methods : The
risk score was derived from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 8 versions
P Maurovich-Horvat, J Massaro, CS Fox, F … - International Journal of Obesity, 2006 - nature.com Inter-reader reproducibility was excellent (relative difference: -0.34 0.52% for
SAV and 0.59 0.93% for VAV, intra-class correlation (ICC)=0.99 each). The mean
SAA/VAA ratio was significantly different from the mean SAV/VAV ratio (2.0 ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
KS Vimaleswaran, V Radha, M Anjana, R … - International Journal of Obesity, 2006 - nature.com None of the three polymorphisms studied were in LD. The genotype (0.59 vs 0.32,
P=0.001) and allele (0.30 vs 0.17, P=0.007) frequencies of Thr394Thr
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LK Smalls, R Randall Wickett, MO Visscher - Skin Research and Technology, 2006 - interscience.wiley.com Background/Purpose: Quantitative measurement of skin biomechanical properties
has been used effectively in the investigation of physiological changes in
tissue structure and function and to determine treatment efficacy. As the ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
S Vasudev, A Mohan, D Mohan, S Farooq, D … - JAPI, 2004 - japi.org Background and Objective : Although Asian Indians have been shown to have
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RD Lele, SR Joshi, A Gupte - JAPI, 2006 - japi.org Asian Indians have a unique phenotype characterized by increased abdominal
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RM Parikh, SR Joshi, PS Menon, NS Shah - Medical hypotheses, 2007 - Elsevier Waist circumference (WC) is globally used as a parameter to quantify central
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