insulin resistance/fever

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) . The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing

Study Setting: The present study is a single blinded placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial, in which target individuals were obese females (BMI≥30 kg/m2), within the age of 20-60 years, attending the Obesity research and therapy unit of Al-Kindy College of Medicine, University of Baghdad

DEDICATE Registry: DRUG ELUTING STENT FOR DIABETIC PATIENTS IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE TREATMENT A POST MARKET REGISTRY OF ABLUMINUS® SIROLIMUS ELUTING CORONARY STENT SYSTEM FOR PERCUTANEOUS INTERVENTION IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS Version 1.0 Principal Investigator Dr. Luca Testa, MD, PhD

The goals of the research protocol are to clearly untie the respective roles of uric acid (UA) and xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) pathways on endothelial function and oxidative stress in humans. UA represents the end-product of purine metabolism due to the loss of uricase 15 million years ago in

The investigators will use several comprehensive state-of-the-art metabolite analysis platforms to test the hypothesis that specific systemic metabolites or metabolite signatures correlate with myocellular fatty acid combustion. The investigators will then determine whether said metabolites do in

Volunteers will be recruited from amongst the preventive health check subjects, neighboring offices, hospital employees and corporate associates of SBISR after obtaining a detailed informed consent. The study will include 300 subjects with the following selection criteria. INCLUSION CRITERIA 1. 35

In healthy subjects, low-grade inflammation, as measured by serum levels of cytokines or acute phase proteins, is positively associated with adiposity. Recent studies indicate that chronic low-grade inflammation in non-diabetic individuals may cause decline in insulin sensitivity and increases the

Purpose. Although the prevalence of weight loss in HIV-infected individuals has decreased in the developed world with the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy, it continues to be a significant problem worldwide, and in the USA. The pathophysiology of weight loss in HIV-infected

BACKGROUND: The Normative Aging Study (NAS) is a multidisciplinary longitudinal study of aging established by the Veterans Adminstration in 1963. Six thousand male volunteers from the Greater Boston area were screened for acceptance into the study according to laboratory, clinical, radiologic and