Objective: Our objective is to identify the potential factors associated with serum Diacron's reactive oxygen metabolites test (D-ROM) levels of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by conducting cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses in two large cohorts and further strengthening these results by performing a meta-analysis.
Methods: Serum D-ROM concentrations were measured in 1045 and 1101 patients with T2DM from two independent cohort studies from Germany at baseline and repeatedly 3-4 years later. The cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of various potential determinants with D-ROM levels were assessed with a backwards selection algorithm in multivariable adjusted models.
Background: In the literature, obesity is discussed as a determinant of high oxidative stress (OS). Hence, prevention or reduction of obesity could prevent high OS and subsequently serve as a target for "healthy aging."
Methods: Diacron's reactive oxygen metabolites test (D-ROM) and total thiol levels (TTL), a marker of antioxidant defense capacity, were measured in 1,734 participants of a population-based cohort study of older adults (age range: 57-83 years) at 2 time points 3 years apart.
Objective: Oxidative stress is believed to play an important role in the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, but the few cohort studies that have assessed the association of oxidative stress biomarkers with type 2 diabetes incidence were small and reported inconclusive results.
Research Design And Methods: We examined the associations of urinary oxidized guanine/guanosine (OxGua) levels (a biomarker of DNA/RNA oxidation) and urinary 8-isoprostane levels (a biomarker of lipid peroxidation) with type 2 diabetes incidence in 7,828 individuals initially without diabetes from a population-based German cohort study with 14 years of follow-up. Hazard ratios (HRs) (95% CIs) per 1 SD were obtained using multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression models.
Studies suggest that nitric oxide (NO) may have a possible role in lung carcinogenesis. This study is aimed to evaluate the association of the NO metabolites, namely, nitrite and nitrate, with lung cancer incidence. We conducted a matched case-control study ( = 245 incident lung cancer cases and = 735 controls) based on the German ESTHER cohort ( = 9,940).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, associations of biomarkers of oxidative stress with diabetes complications have not yet been addressed in large cohort studies.
Research Design And Methods: Derivatives of reactive oxygen metabolites (d-ROMs) levels, a proxy for the reactive oxygen species burden, and total thiol levels (TTLs), a proxy for the reductive capacity, were measured in 2,125 patients with T2DM from two German cohort studies of almost equal size at baseline and 3-4 years later.
Free thiol groups of intra and extracellular molecules are considered to be antioxidative and to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals. However, the associations of serum total thiol levels (TTL) with the incidences of the four most frequent cancer sites have not yet been investigated in a large population-based, prospective study. TTL was measured in case-cohort design in a sample from the population-based, Norwegian Tromsø 3 study (cancer cases: n = 941; random subcohort: n = 1,000) and was repeatedly measured at Tromsø 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOxidative stress has been linked to cancer development in previous studies. However, the association between pre-diagnostic oxidatively generated DNA/RNA damage levels and incident cancer has rarely been investigated. Urinary oxidized guanine/guanosine (OxGua) concentrations, including 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine, were assessed in 8,793 older adults in a population-based German cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOxidative stress may be involved in carcinogenesis and biomarkers of oxidative stress like derivatives of reactive oxygen metabolites (d-ROM) may be useful for cancer prediction. However, no previous study assessed the association of pre-diagnostic d-ROM measurements with cancer incidence. We measured serum d-ROM levels in a cohort sample of n = 4,345 participants of the German ESTHER study and in a case-cohort sample of the Norwegian Tromsø study (cancer cases: n = 941; subcohort: n = 1,000).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOxidative stress contributes to endothelial dysfunction and is involved in the pathogenesis of myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke. However, associations of biomarkers of oxidative stress with MI and stroke have not yet been addressed in large cohort studies. A nested case-control design was applied in four population-based cohort studies from Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and Lithuania.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Urinary 8-isoprostane is an established biomarker for lipid peroxidation. However, the association between its pre-diagnostic levels and cancer incidence has rarely been evaluated.
Methods: 8793 older adults from the German ESTHER cohort were followed up for cancer incidence by cancer registry data.