Publications by authors named "Aisha Yusuf Ibrahim"
Context: Patients with acromegaly (PWA) experience balance issues, despite achieving biochemical remission, that may significantly impair their quality of life.
Objective: We sought to assess the prevalence of falls and balance self-confidence in PWA in comparison with a control group. Furthermore, we investigated the effect of joint pain and function as predictors for their balance self-confidence.
Background: Preptin is a bone-anabolic pancreatic peptide hormone. Its role in bone metabolism has been studied in rats and in patients with diabetes, but its levels and significance in bone metabolism in hemodialyzed (HD) patients is unknown.
Methods: The relationships between preptin and anthropometric and biochemical parameters related to bone metabolism were studied in 73 patients on chronic hemodialysis (48 males, 25 females; mean age of 57 years; HD vintage of 69.
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- The study aimed to see if the amount of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in pregnant women during the first trimester is linked to babies being small-for-gestational-age (SGA) or large-for-gestational-age (LGA), considering different ethnic backgrounds.
- The research involved 452 women who had single live births, measuring their VAT depth through ultrasound between 11 to 14 weeks of pregnancy and comparing their babies' weights against established birthweight curves.
- Results showed that higher VAT depth increased the odds of having larger babies (LGA) but not smaller ones (SGA), with the association varying depending on whether general or ethnicity-specific birthweight curves were used.
Background: The new polypeptide hormones adropin and irisin have a broad impact on human metabolism and energy homeostasis. They could be potential biomarkers of cardiac injury. In end-stage renal disease (ESRD), the clinical importance of adropin and irisin is yet to be investigated.
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