C Ellervik, H Birgens, A Tybjærg-Hansen, BG … - Hepatology, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com Hemochromatosis genotypes have been associated with liver disease, diabetes mellitus, heart
disease, arthritis, porphyria cutanea tarda, stroke, neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, and
venous disease. We performed meta-analyses including 202 studies with 66,263 cases ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org L Qi, P Kraft, DJ Hunter, FB Hu - Human Molecular Genetics, 2008 - Oxford Univ Press Melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) plays critical roles in regulating food intake and energy
balance. Recent genome wide scans found common variants near MC4R were related to obesity
and insulin resistance. We examined the associations of the reported variants ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - All 4 versions
L Qi, RM van Dam, K Rexrode, FB Hu - Diabetes care, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—During 54,455 person-years of follow-up from 1980 through 2000, we documented
550 incident cases of CHD. After adjustment for age and BMI, high intakes of both heme iron
and red meat were associated with a significantly increased risk of fatal CHD (P for trend ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
L Qi, K Kang, C Zhang, RM van Dam, P Kraft, D Hunter, … - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—We observed a trend toward decreasing associations between rs9939609 and BMI
at older age (≥65 years) in men, whereas the associations were constant across different age
groups in women. In addition, the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs9939609 was ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - All 3 versions
SN Rajpathak, JP Crandall, J Wylie-Rosett, GC Kabat, … - BBA-General Subjects, 2009 - Elsevier The role of micronutrients in the etiology of type 2 diabetes is not well established. Several lines
of evidence suggest that iron play may a role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. Iron is a
strong pro-oxidant and high body iron levels are associated with increased level of ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 2 versions
L Qi, N Rifai, FB Hu - Diabetes, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS— In both control and diabetic patients, polymorphisms within an LD block spanning
∼42 kb were significantly associated with plasma IL-6 levels. A missense variant SNP7 in exon
9 (rs8192284, Asp358Ala) showed the strongest association (P = 0.0005 in control and P ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►shouxi.net L Qi, A Doria, E Giorgi, FB Hu - Diabetes, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc Adiponectin has been associated with low diabetes risk. The metabolic effects of adiponectin
are mediated by adiponectin receptors 1 (ADIPOR1) and 2 (ADIPOR2). We conducted a
prospective, nested case-control study of 714 cases of type 2 diabetes and 1,120 control ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
FB Hu - Jama, 2007 - Am Med Assoc The iron-heart hypothesis first put forth by Sullivan 1 in 1981 suggests that increased body iron
stores are a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) and thus that iron depletion through
phlebotomy or other means can reduce risk. The hypothesis, which was based on ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
L Qi, RM van Dam, FW Asselbergs, FB Hu - Diabetic Medicine, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to display style sheets.
In this case, although the visual presentation will be degraded, the site should continue to be
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L Qi, K Kang, C Zhang, RM van Dam, P Kraft, D Hunter, … - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc Affiliations: 1: Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
2: Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 3: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School ... Cited by 1
