GR Hajer, TW van Haeften, FLJ Visseren - European Heart Journal, 2008 - Eur Soc Cardiology The increased prevalence of excessive visceral obesity and obesity-related
cardiovascular risk factors is closely associated with the rising incidence of
cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes mellitus. This clustering of ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - All 4 versions
CV Rizos, EN Liberopoulos, DP Mikhailidis, … - Expert Opin. Pharmacother., 2008 - informahealthcare.com Background: Insulin resistance and hyperglycemia characterize type 2 diabetes
mellitus. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is usually accompanied by concomitant
disorders, such as dyslipidemia, hypertension and atherosclerosis. ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
J Gómez-Ambrosi, A Rodríguez, V Catalán, B … - Clinical Endocrinology-Oxford, 2008 - pt.wkhealth.com Results: No significant effect of either obesity or diabetes on serum RBP4 was
observed. Serum RBP4 concentrations (measured by either ELISA or Western blot)
did not correlate with body mass index (BMI), body fat or any indicator of ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] C Heidemann, Q Sun, RM van Dam, JB Meigs, … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2008 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Adiponectin and resistin are recently discovered adi- pokines that
may provide a molecular link between adiposity and type 2 diabetes. ...
Objective: To evaluate whether total and high-molecular-weight adiponectin ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - All 5 versions
- ►ahajournals.org KK Koh, SM Park, MJ Quon - Circulation, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc Insulin resistance, 8 systemic hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia 9 all
contribute independently to vascular endothelial dysfunction that promotes
atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Reciprocal relationships ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - All 8 versions
- ►endojournals.org N Sattar, P Watt, L Cherry, S Ebrahim, G … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2008 - Endocrine Soc Context: Adiponectin levels appear weakly linked to incident vascular disease,
but the high molecular weight (HMW) fraction may be more relevant. ...
Objective: Our objective was to test whether HMW adiponectin, the key ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - All 3 versions
N Sattar, SG Wannamethee, NG Forouhi - Diabetologia, 2008 - Springer Abstract This review critically appraises studies examining the association of
novel factors with diabetes. We show that many of the most studied novel and
apparently 'independent' risk factors are correlated with each other by ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org P Welsh, HM Murray, BM Buckley, AJM de … - Diabetes Care, 2009 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—In treatment-, age-, and country-adjusted models, leptin was not
associated with risk of CVD in men (hazard ratio 1.02 [95% CI 0.90–1.16] per
unit log-leptin increase) or women (1.05 [0.91–1.20]) but was associated ... Cited by 7 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►endojournals.org N Sattar, SM Nelson - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2008 - Endocrine Soc Adiponectin is the most abundant circulating peptide hormone secreted by
adipocytes and operates in conjunction with its two membrane receptors ADIPOR1
and ADIPOR2 in multiple systems to induce improvement of skeletal muscle ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 3 versions
O Ukkola, S Pöykkö, M Päivänsalo, YA … - Annals of medicine, 2008 - informahealthcare.com Results. The interaction between leptin and ghrelin on the MS was significant
(P=0.011). An additive effect of high leptin and low ghrelin on metabolic
disturbances was observed: low ghrelin concentration (adjusted for age and ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 5 versions
