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Background: Hemoglobin (HGB) is a pigment protein found in human red blood cells. Laboratories usually measure hemoglobin using a colorimetric method. The factor that causes the increase of blood turbidity (hypertri-glyceridemia) can lead to the false increase of HGB, and also cause a significant increase of MCH and MCHC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPattern and predictors of dyslipidemia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes Metab Syndr
January 2014
Directorate General of Health Services, Bangladesh.
Dyslipidemia is a major risk factor for macro-vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Present study explored pattern and predictors of dyslipidemia in Bangladeshi T2DM patients. The cross-sectional study is conducted among 366 consecutive eligible T2DM patients aged >30 years, BIRDEM diabetic hospital, during July-to-December 2010.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Influence of body fat distribution on the prevalence of arterial hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in obese patients].
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992)
March 2004
Disciplina de Endocrinologia da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Introduction: Obese people are at higher cardiovascular risk than people with normal body weight. The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between obesity, body fat distribution and cardiovascular risk factors.
Methods: Body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR) systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), plasma cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose levels were determined in a population of 499 overweight and obese patients (432F/67M; age 39 12.
Primary type V hyperlipoproteinemia. A descriptive study in 32 families.
Ann Intern Med
November 1977
We have studied 32 kindreds identified by propositi with primary type V hyperlipoproteinemia. The clinical presentation, metabolic associations, and natural history confirm the distinctiveness of primary type V hyperlipoproteinemia from other lipoprotein abnormalities. Although the underlying defect(s) remains unknown, several factors such as obesity, alcohol, drugs, and diet are able to modify the glyceridemia, the major manifestation of this disorder.
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