Metabolic Syndrome

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Metabolic Syndrome, which makes diabetes and heart disease more likely, may have met its match in exercise - especially when it gets intense. ...

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Circulation 2008; Advance online publication MedWire News: Patients with the Metabolic Syndrome are more likely to rid themselves of their condition if they undertake high-intensity rather than moderate-intensity exercise, a pilot study indicates. ...

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Trondheim, Norway - Results of a small pilot trial showing that people with Metabolic Syndrome might benefit from an exercise regimen that includes aerobic interval training have now been published [1]. According to the Norwegian investigators who ...

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Related Articles Altered Hyperlipidemia, Hepatic Steatosis, and Hepatic Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors in Rats with Intake of Tart Cherry. J Med Food. 2008 Jun;11(2):252-259 Authors: Seymour EM, Singer AA, Kirakosyan A, Urcuyo-Llanes DE, Kaufman PB, Bolling SF ABSTRACT Elevated plasma lipids, glucose, insulin, and fatty liver are among components of Metabolic Syndrome, a phenotypic pattern that typically precedes the development of Type 2 diabetes. Animal studies show that intake of anthocyanins reduces hyperlipidemia, obesity, and atherosclerosis and that anthocyanin-rich extracts may exert these effects in association with altered activity of tissue peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs). However, studies are lacking to test this correlation using physiologically relevant, whole food sources of anthocyanins. Tart cherries are a rich source of anthocyanins, and whole cherry fruit intake may also affect hyperlipidemia and/or affect tissue PPARs. This hypothesis was tested in the Dahl Salt-Sensitive rat having insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia. For 90 days, Dahl rats were pair-fed AIN-76a-based diets supplemented with either 1% (wt:wt) freeze-dried whole tart cherry or with 0.85% additional carbohydrate to match macronutrient and calorie provision. After 90 days, the cherry-enriched diet was associated with reduced fasting blood glucose, hyperlipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, and reduced fatty liver. The cherry d ...

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Related Articles Arterial elasticity in cardiovascular disease: focus on hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome and diabetes. Adv Cardiol. 2008;45:65-81 Authors: Cernes R, Zimlichman R, Shargorodsky M Arterial stiffness is an independent risk factor for premature cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that can be evaluated by noninvasive methods and can be reduced by good clinical management. The present chapter examines the association between arterial stiffness and cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome, diabetes, advanced renal failure, hypercholesterolemia and obesity. The mechanisms responsible for the structural and functional modifications of the arterial wall are also described. We deal with parameters related to arterial compliance, focusing on two of them, pulse wave velocity and the augmentation index, useful in rapid assessment of arterial compliance by the bedside. Data that highlight the role of aortic pulse wave velocity and the augmentation index as independent factors in predicting fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events in different populations are briefly presented. A number of lifestyle changes and traditional antihypertensive agents that improve arterial compliance are finally discussed. Novel therapies, such as statins, thiazolidindinediones, phosphodiesterase inhibitors and inhibitors or breakers of advanced glycation end product cross-links between colagen and elastin hold substantial pr ...

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Effect of irbesartan on erectile function in patients with hypertension and Metabolic Syndrome International Journal of Impotence Research advance online publication, July 3, 2008. doi:10.1038/ijir.2008.28 Authors: M Baumhäkel, N Schlimmer & M Böhm (Source: International Journal of Impotence Research)   MedWorm Sponsored Message: Find out how you can get your message across here by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed. ...

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Related Articles Comparisons between anthropometric indices for predicting the Metabolic Syndrome in the Japanese. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2008;17(2):223-8 Authors: Kato M, Takahashi Y, Inoue M, Tsugane S, Kadowaki T, Noda M, Jphc Study Group F Aims: Most definitions of the Metabolic Syndrome (MS) employ waist circumference as an indicator of central obesity. However, several reports, mainly from Asia, argue that other indices, for example the waist/height ratio, are superior to waist circumference for identifying subjects with cardiovascular risk factors. We therefore inves-tigated correlations between the predictive power of several anthropometric indices and risk factor accumulation (RFA) defined by the existence of two or more disorders among hypertension, dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and/or low levels of high density lipoprotein cholesterol) and fasting hyperglycemia; each of which is a compo-nent of MS. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using data from a part of the Japan Public Health Center-based Cohort. A total of 315 men and 314 women, 51 to 70 years of age were examined for vari-ables including waist and hip circumferences, blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose and lipids at an annual health check-up. Results: The prevalence of RFA increased almost linearly in parallel with increasing waist cir-cumference up to 95 cm. Receiver operating characteristic analysis demonstrated that waist circumference was better ...

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Related Articles Body mass index (BMI) as a major factor in the incidence of the Metabolic Syndrome and its constituents in unaffected Taiwanese from 1998 to 2002. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2008;17(2):339-51 Authors: Yang FY, Wahlqvist ML, Lee MS A large health screening program in Taiwan with members who have periodic checks provides an opportunity to track individuals who are healthy at baseline for the emergence of the Metabolic Syndrome (MS) and its component disorders. The Syndrome comprised abdominal obesity assessed by waist circumference, high fasting serum glucose (FSG), high triglyceride (TG), low high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) and high blood pressure. A cohort of 9,785 adults (4,707 men and 5,078 women), aged 19 to 84 years, who were free from the MS at baseline were followed for 4 years from 1998 to 2002. Using Asian criteria for abdominal obesity and reducing the threshold for FSG from >=110 mg/dL to >=100 mg/dL, the incidence of MS during the 4-year follow up in the MJ Health Screening Center Study in Taiwan was 12.7% (17.5% for men and 8.3% for women). The incidence of the MS in men exceeded that for women up until 50-59 years and then this gender was reversed in the older age groups pointing to pre-menopausal protection in women. The most evident manifestations of the incident of Metabolic abnormalities were high FSG, high blood pressure and high TG, particularly in post-menopausal women. Baseline body mass inde ...

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The group of Gina Moore published a paper in the journal Mechanisms of Ageing and Development (April 200 on the Werner Syndrome (WS) in mice, in relation to diabetes. They examined if mutations in the Werner Syndrome protein WRN might affect Metabolic response to a diabetogenic diet. They found that WRN null mice had [...] ...

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