Waist circumference and insulin resistance in elderly men: an analysis of Kahrizak elderly study.

Background: Diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MS) is crucial for health care practitioners to identify at risk people for early treatment. Visceral obesity may make unnecessary other laborious measures of insulin resistance. The aim of this study was to see whether waist circumference (WC) can predict insulin resistance as well as MS in a group of Iranian elderly.

Impact of hypertension on various markers of subclinical atherosclerosis in early type 2 diabetes.

Background: Presence of Diabetes Mellitus increases the risk of subclinical atherosclerosis. In this study was aimed to determine the influence of hypertension (HTN) on surrogate markers of atherosclerosis in a population of patients with early type 2 diabetes.

Methods: 125 diabetic subjects drawn from Dr.

Correlation of serum homocysteine and previous history of gestational diabetes mellitus.

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common pregnancy condition. In this study, the risk of having a history of previous GDM (pGDM) on serum homocysteine level was assessed.

Methods: Biomedical parameters, serum homocysteine, Insulin, homeostatic model assessment (HOMA) in women with (n = 52) and without pGDM (n = 51) were assessed.

Carotid intima media thickness, brachial flow mediated dilation and previous history of gestational diabetes mellitus.

Aim: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common pregnancy condition with long-term complications. We examined the association between inflammatory mediators and early atherosclerosis process by measuring the flow mediated dilatation (FMD) of brachial artery and carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) in women with previous GDM (pGDM).

Material And Methods: Women with and without pGDM with an average of 4 years following the indexed pregnancy, participated in this study.

The association of carotid intima media thickness with retinol binding protein-4 and total and high molecular weight adiponectin in type 2 diabetic patients.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate whether carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) is associated with serum level of retinol- binding protein-4 (RBP4) and total and high molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) without clinical symptom of atherosclerotic disease.

Method: 101 type 2 diabetic patients (mean age, 53.63 ± 8.

Low serum leptin serves as a biomarker of malnutrition in elderly patients.

Anthropometric and classical biologic markers of malnutrition, such as serum albumin, are limited because they are influenced by nonnutritional factors. We propose that a biologic parameter that both predicts nutritional status and is unaffected by nonnutritional factors would facilitate the diagnosis of malnutrition in the elderly. This cross-sectional study included 179 randomized elderly patients.