Publications by authors named "Niloofar Barzegar"

The associations of different lipid measures and related indices with incident hypertension during a median follow-up of 12·89 years were examined. Fasting levels of total cholesterol (TC), TAG, HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol, and related indices (TC/HDL-cholesterol and TAG/HDL-cholesterol) were determined in 7335 Iranian adults (men = 3270) free of hypertension, aged 39·0 (sd 13·2) years. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression was applied and lipid parameters were considered either as categorical or continuous variables.

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Aim: To examine whether visit to visit variability (VVV) of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) is associated with incident cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and all-cause mortality in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Methods: A total of 4756 participants aged ≥30 years entered the study in 2002-2005 and underwent two subsequent examinations in 2005-2008 and 2008-2011. FPG variability measures included standard deviation (SD), coefficient of variation (CV), average real variability (ARV), and variability independent of mean (VIM).

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Background: To investigate whether the Triglyceride-Glucose index (TyG-index) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD)/coronary heart disease (CHD).

Methods: A total of 7521 Iranians aged ≥ 30 years (male = 3367) were included in the study. Multivariate Cox regression analyses (adjusted for age, gender, waist circumference, body mass index, educational level, smoking status, physical activity, family history of CVD, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, low and high density lipoprotein cholesterol, and lipid lowering drugs) were used to assess the risk of incident CVD/CHD across quintiles and for 1-standard deviation (SD) increase in the TyG-index.

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