Association between the genetic variant in the vitamin D pathway (rs2282679), circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome criteria.

Background and aims: some studies have reported links between 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and the presence of metabolic syndrome. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether an association exists among 25-hydroxyvitamin D, rs2282679 of the GC gene and metabolic syndrome (MS). Methods: the study involved a population of 134 postmenopausal obese females.

Effects of a Short-Term Meal Replacement Hypocaloric Diet in Subjects with Obesity and High Fatty Liver Index.

Introduction: Dietary changes play a role in metabolic response of patients with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, and there is little evidence on the use of partial meal replacement (pMR) diets in this pathology.

Aim: We decided to evaluate the modifications in transaminases levels after a pMR hypocaloric diet in subjects with obesity and elevated fatty liver index (FLI).

Material And Methods: A sample of 606 patients with obesity and FLI ≥ 60 were enrolled and treated during 3 months with a pMR diet.

A single FTO gene variant rs9939609 is associated with weight change and insulin resistance improvement in response to a robotic sleeve gastrectomy in individuals with severe obesity.

Background: Genetic mechanisms have been involved in the weight response secondary to bariatric surgery.

Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate the effects of the rs9939609 genetic variant on weight loss and metabolic parameters after sleeve gastrectomy.

Setting: Tertiary hospital.

Data for all: Tactile graphics that light up with picture-perfect resolution.

People who are blind do not have access to graphical data and imagery produced by science. This exclusion complicates learning and data sharing between sighted and blind persons. Because blind people use tactile senses to visualize data (and sighted people use eyesight), a single data format that can be easily visualized by both is needed.

Ataxia with Ocular Apraxia Type 1 (AOA1) (APTX, W279* Mutation): Neurological, Neuropsychological, and Molecular Outlining of a Heterogenous Phenotype in Four Colombian Siblings.

Hereditary ataxias are a group of devastating neurological disorders that affect coordination of gait and are often associated with poor coordination of hands, speech, and eye movements. Ataxia with ocular apraxia type 1 (AOA1) (OMIM: 606,350.0006) is characterized by slowly progressive symptoms of childhood-onset and pathogenic mutations in APTX; the only known cause underpinning AOA1.

Incidence and dynamic risk stratification in differentiated thyroid cancer in a high-resolution clinic, 2002-2017.

Objective: We evaluated the incidence, progression and the dynamic risk stratification in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) under follow-up in a high-resolution clinic (HRC).

Methods: This was a retrospective observational study on incident cases in the tumor registry from 2002 to 2017 and their evolution under follow-up in HRC.

Results: A total of 444 patients (78.

[A real-world study to evaluate adherence and flavor of a high-protein hypercaloric oral nutritional supplement in patients with malnutrition in a hospital].

Aim: the objective of our real-life study was to evaluate adherence and taste preferences of a hypercaloric and hyperprotein oral nutritional supplement (ONS) in malnourished hospitalized patients. Methods: a total of 34 in patients with recent weight loss were included in this study. One flavor (coffe, vanilla or strawberry) was administered each day in a random way to each patient during three consecutive days.

[Real-world study in oncological outpatients of an oral supplement enriched with ω-3 fatty acids - effect on quality of life and nutritional parameters].

Background: cancer patients are a group at high nutritional risk. Oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) can improve nutritional status. Objective: the objective of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness on nutritional parameters and quality of life of a ω3-enriched ONS in oncology outpatients in a real-world study.

Adiponectin Gene Variant rs3774261, Effects on Lipid Profile and Adiponectin Levels after a High Polyunsaturated Fat Hypocaloric Diet with Mediterranean Pattern.

The role of gene variants on metabolic improvements after weight change secondary to different hypocaloric diets remained unclear. We evaluate the effect of rs3774261 of polymorphism on biochemical improvements and weight change after high polyunsaturated fat hypocaloric diet with a Mediterranean dietary pattern for 12 weeks. A population of 361 obese subjects was enrolled in an intervention trial with a calorie restriction of 500 calories over the usual intake and 45.

Visualizing 3D imagery by mouth using candy-like models.

Handheld models help students visualize three-dimensional (3D) objects, especially students with blindness who use large 3D models to visualize imagery by hand. The mouth has finer tactile sensors than hand, which could improve visualization using microscopic models that are portable, inexpensive, and disposable. The mouth remains unused in tactile learning.

The risk variant of CDKAL1 (rs7756992) impairs fasting glucose levels and insulin resistance improvements after a partial meal-replacement hypocaloric diet.

Background: The CDKAL1 (CDK5 Regulatory Subunit Associated Protein 1 Like 1) gene encodes cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) regulatory subunit-associated proten1 like 1. This protein has been shown to contribute to the glucose-dependent regulation of insulin secretion in pancreatic islets.

Aims: The aim of our study was to analyze the effects of the rs7756992 genetic variant of CDKAL1 gene on fasting glucose and insulin resistance after weight loss secondary to partial meal replacement hypocaloric diet (pMRHD).

Incidence and dynamic risk stratification in differentiated thyroid cancer in a high-resolution clinic, 2002-2017.

Objective: We evaluated the incidence, progression and the dynamic risk stratification in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) under follow-up in a high-resolution clinic (HRC).

Methods: This was a retrospective observational study on incident cases in the tumor registry from 2002 to 2017 and their evolution under follow-up in HRC.

Results: A total of 444 patients (78.

[The rs10401670 variant of the resistin gene is related to circulating resistin levels, insulin resistance, and presence of type-2 diabetes mellitus in obese patients].

Background: the SNP 3´UTR C/T (rs10401670) of the RETN gene is a polymorphism that has been associated with the presence of type-2 diabetes mellitus in a single work in the literature. Objective: the objective of our study was to evaluate the influence of this resistin gene SNP (rs10401670) on the serum levels of resistin, as well as on the presence of type-2 diabetes mellitus in obese subjects and on insulin resistance. Material and methods: a Caucasian population of 653 obese subjects was analyzed.

Association Between Visceral Abdominal Fat Accumulation and Severity of Liver Fibrosis in Nondiabetic Individuals Coinfected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus.

Our primary objective was to assess the independent association between liver fibrosis (LF) and abdominal fat accumulation (AFA) and fatty liver disease (FLD). We also aimed to determine the diagnostic accuracy of AFA and FLD for the prediction of cirrhosis measured using unenhanced low-dose computed tomography (CT). This is a cross-sectional study in stable human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV)-coinfected patients with active HCV replication.

The 10-item eating assessment tool is associated with nutritional status, mortality and hospital stay in elderly individuals requiring hospitalization with acute diseases.

Objective: the purpose of this investigation was to investigate the associations between nutritional status by Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) test and dysphagia by EAT-10 in elderly individuals requiring nutritional oral care in an acute hospital.

Patients: this was a cross-sectional survey covering a sample of 560 elderly individuals. As anthropometric parameters, weight and body mass index (BMI) have been included.

Association of a cholesteryl ester transfer protein variant (rs1800777) with fat mass, HDL cholesterol levels, and metabolic syndrome.

Background: There is little evidence of the association between CETP SNPs and obesity and/or related metabolic parameters.

Objective: To analyze the association of the polymorphism rs1800777 of the CETP gene with anthropometric parameters, lipid profile, metabolic syndrome and its components, and adipokine levels in obese subjects without type 2 diabetes mellitus or hypertension.

Design: A population of 1005 obese subjects was analyzed.

Biochemical, Anthropometric and Lifestyle Factors Related with Weight Maintenance after Weight Loss Secondary to a Hypocaloric Mediterranean Diet.

Background/aims: The aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of lifestyle factors and molecular biomarkers on the maintenance of the weight lost after a hypocaloric Mediterranean diet.

Design: After 3 months on a diet, patients (n = 335) remained with no controlled diet during 3 years and they were revaluated.

Results: Using linear regression, in the group of responders, we detected that a positive weight loss at 3 months, serum levels of leptin at 3 months, and each 30 min per week of physical activity were associated with weight loss maintenance.

Optimal Use of Transient Elastography and Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse to Stage Liver Fibrosis in HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients in Clinical Practice.

Objectives: Liver fibrosis (LF) is crucial for the individualized management of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV). We evaluated the concordance between two noninvasive methods for staging LF, transient elastography (TE) and acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI), in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus and HCV. We propose an algorithm for optimal use of both techniques in routine clinical practice.

Oral Nutritional Supplements and Taste Adherence in Malnourished Adults Inpatients, Effect on Adhesion during Hospital Stance.

Aim: The aim of our study was to evaluate a hypercaloric sweet milk-based oral nutrition supplement in a prospective 3-day study designed to assess the taste preferences of this oral nutritional supplement (ONS) in malnourished inpatients and the influence on adherence in daily intake.

Methods: A total of 46 in patients with recent weight loss were included in this study. One flavor (chocolate, vanilla or strawberry) was administered each day in a random way to each patient during 3 consecutive days.

Priming the mental time-line: effects of modality and processing mode.

The notion of a mental time-line (i.e., past corresponds to left and future corresponds to right) supports the conceptual metaphor view assuming that abstract concepts like "time" are grounded in cognitively more accessible concepts like "space.

Effect of liver fibrosis on long-term mortality in HIV/hepatitis C virus-coinfected individuals who are evaluated to receive interferon therapies in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era.

The factors associated with overall mortality and liver decompensation in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV)-coinfected patients who are evaluated to receive HCV antiviral therapy with a known liver histological fibrosis stage were evaluated in a prospective cohort study. A total of 387 consecutive HIV/HCV-coinfected patients attending an outpatient clinical unit between January 1997 and December 2007 who fulfilled criteria to be treated with interferon and to whom liver biopsy was performed were included and followed every 6 months from time of liver biopsy to death or to December 2008. The follow-up period was 6.