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The prevalence of diabetes type 2 estimated to 628 Million people in the world by 2045 and was announced by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) as one of the biggest epidemics in the history. Complications of diabetics Type 2 can range from high blood sugar include heart disease, strokes,
Patients with typical Familial Partial Lipodystrophy Disease (FPLD) have a marked loss of subcutaneous fat from the extremities and trunk accompanied by a variable amount of excess fat deposition in the nonlipodystrophic areas such as the face, chin, back, and intraabdominal regions. Dietary fat
Blood glucose levels are rapidly increasing in the population, as evident by the sharp incline in the prevalence of prediabetes and impaired glucose tolerance estimated to affect, in the U.S. alone, 37% of the adult population. Chronic hyperglycaemia is a significant risk factor for type II diabetes
Fructose is a monosaccharide present naturally in foods as fruit, vegetables and honey. In fruit, vegetables and table sugar it is also present as a disaccharide (sucrose), where it is joined with glucose. The intake of fructose has increased dramatically in the last decades. The increase is
Background: Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are the leading causes of death in the world and in Brazil. In 2001, 12.45 million deaths on the globe (21% of the total) were caused by some CVD.
Different studies agree that CVDs can be prevented by reducing risk factors, such as: smoking, inadequate diet
RATIONALE Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a clinical entity associated with obesity, insulin resistance (IR), hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL. This syndrome promotes the pathophysiological mechanisms of oxidative stress damage, endothelial inflammation, hypercoagulability, atheromatosis
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of a combination of egg protein and unsaturated fatty acids acting as substitutes for ~16% of energy from refined carbohydrate on the metabolic profile of men and women with elevated triglycerides. This is a randomized, controlled feeding,
A double blind randomized placebo-controlled crossover experimental design with six treatments will be used. A total of 30 young (20-40 year old) healthy men and women will serve as subjects. Following 2 days of physical activity and dietary control, subjects will consume a standard OGTT load or
Food is an important part of human beings life. During most part of human beings history the shortage of food has been a problem. Today the shortage of food is unknown phenomena in the industrial countries. Instead human being is facing a challenge in obesity epidemic. The number of obese persons
Parenteral nutrition (PN) is often necessary for children undergoing allogeneic allogeneic bone marrow, cord, or peripheral blood stem cell (from any donor, including haploidentical donor) hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) to avoid malnutrition and growth failure due to the gastrointestinal
Therapy with Omegaven will be initiated and maintained at 1 g/kg/day in subjects with parenteral nutrition-associated cholestasis and prolonged parenteral nutrition dependence who qualify for expanded access. It will be infused intravenously through either a central or peripheral catheter in
Specific Aims and Hypothesis:
The Primary aim is:
To compare the impact of dietary weight loss via carbohydrate-restriction and calorie-restriction on hepatic TG content quantified by H-MRS in obese children with biopsy-proven NAFLD and Met-S.
Our Secondary aims are:
To compare BMI z-score, ALT
Primary cutaneous lymphomas are the second group of extra nodal lymphomas after gastrointestinal lymphomas. Bexarotene is licensed for the treatment of epidermotropic cutaneous T cell lymphoma .The most common side effect of bexarotene is hypertriglyceridemia (82%) associated with
Non-diabetic patients with MS were recruited from an outpatient clinic at the Division of Nephrology of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. MS was defined according to the criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP-ATPIII). The study was