Publications by authors named "F Ahmadizar"

Introduction: Risk minimisation measures (RMMs) aim to ensure safe use of medicines, but their implementation in clinical practice is complicated by the diversity of stakeholders whose clinical decision making they seek to inform. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are considered integral in clinical decision making.

Objectives: To determine the extent to which RMMs are included in the relevant CPGs and to describe factors that determine RMM inclusion.

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Objective: This study aimed to investigate serum metabolomic biomarkers associated with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and evaluate their performance in improving T2DM risk prediction.

Methods: Untargeted proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy-based metabolomics analyses were conducted in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA; n=3460; discovery cohort) and Rotterdam Study (RS; n=1556; replication cohort). Multivariable cause-specific hazards models were used to analyze the associations between 23,571 serum metabolomic spectral variables and incident T2DM.

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Obesity and cardiometabolic disease often, but not always, coincide. Distinguishing subpopulations within which cardiometabolic risk diverges from the risk expected for a given body mass index (BMI) may facilitate precision prevention of cardiometabolic diseases. Accordingly, we performed unsupervised clustering in four European population-based cohorts (N ≈ 173,000).

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Article Synopsis
  • - Our study analyzed how genetic variations influence the effectiveness of metformin, a diabetes medication, in a group of 14,926 people over nearly three decades, focusing on 1,285 users of European descent.
  • - We found that while most individual genetic markers didn't show strong links to drug response, one specific variant (rs622342) was associated with improved glycemic control in patients only taking metformin.
  • - Although the combined effects of multiple genetic variants (measured by Polygenic Risk Score) had a weak correlation with changes in medication dosage, the limited impact suggests more research is needed, especially in different populations, to better understand genetic factors in diabetes treatment.
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