PPARβ/δ Agonism with GW501516 Increases Myotube PGC-1α Content and Reduces BCAA Media Content Independent of Changes in BCAA Catabolic Enzyme Expression by Caroline N. Rivera, Jason S. Hinkle, Rachel M. Watne, Trent C. Macgowan, Andrew J. Wommack, Roger A. Vaughan

“…PGC-1α regulates the expression of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) metabolism, and thus, increased circulating BCAA in diabetics may be partially explained by reduced PGC-1α expression. …”
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Lipotoxicity and metabolic disorders at obesity by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya

“…The most serious metabolic disorders related to obesity, include non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), diabetes mellitus, systemic hypertension with gradual development of heart failure, dyslipidemia, night apnea, etc. …”
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Caracterización de ancianos frágiles y sus cuidadores by Marina Selin Ganén, Marlén del Valle Pérez

“…<strong><br />Resultados: </strong>en los ancianos predominó  el grupo de 70-79 años (41,3 %), con poca variación en el sexo; predominaron el déficit visual (89, 9 %), la hipertensión arterial (66, 6 %) y la diabetes mellitus (30, 6 %) en los antecedentes patológicos personales; el 48 % estaba en la categoría dos de la escala geriátrica de evaluación funcional. …”
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A Challenging Case of an Ectopic Cushing Syndrome by Joana Menezes Nunes, Elika Pinho, Isabel Camões, João Maciel, Pedro Cabral Bastos, Conceição Souto de Moura, Paulo Bettencourt

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Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among Working Adults in Ethiopia by A. Tran, B. Gelaye, B. Girma, S. Lemma, Y. Berhane, T. Bekele, A. Khali, M. A. Williams

“…To evaluate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) III criteria among working East African adults. …”
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Serum Ischemia Modified Albumin Levels in Infertile Couples Underwent in Vitro Fertilization by Fatma Beyazıt, Osman Balcı, Magdi Adam, Hasan İnal, Yeşim Bardakcı, Nafiye Yılmaz

“… OBJECTIVE: Ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) is a novel biomarker for diagnosis of distinct disease states including infectious diseases, coronary atherosclerotic disease, hypoxic fetal distress and diabetes mellitus. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a medical process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body with varible success rates. …”
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Ischemic Heart Disease and Work Disability in Patients Treated at the Internal Medicine Consultation and Assessed by the Expert Medical Labor Commission by Belkis Vicente Sánchez, Ernesto Vicente Peña, Tania Cuellar Torres, Miriam Costa Cruz

“…Two hundred one point thirteen days of sick leave were granted and social security expenditure in a month was high. Diabetes mellitus was the most common chronic disease followed by hypertension, obesity and dyslipidemia. …”
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The Association between the Pulmonary Arterial Obstruction Index and Atrial Size in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism by Taraneh Faghihi Langroudi, Maryam Sheikh, Mohammadreza Naderian, Morteza Sanei Taheri, Amir Ashraf-ganjouei, Isa Khaheshi

“…There was not a significant difference in the positive history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, ischemic heart disease, and smoking between patients and control group. …”
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Early mortality, epidemiological and clinical factors in seriously ill patients treated in Intermediate Care Units by Osmani Pérez Ortiz, Angel Antonio Urbay Ruíz, Elaine Teresa Gutiérrez Pérez, Lis Marlyn Rodríguez García, Ivette Irene Molina Linares, Ernesto Conyedo Vergel

“…Conclusions: early mortality was more frequent in individuals with white skin and age over 60 years; the emerging Intensive Care Unit as the place of origin and the history of high blood pressure, upper digestive bleeding, ischemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus predominated. The diagnosis at admission of upper digestive bleeding and intraventricular hemorrhage was more closely related to early mortality, and septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction were determining complications as well.…”
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Significant Independent Predictors of Vitamin D Deficiency in Inpatients and Outpatients of a Nephrology Unit by Recep Bentli, Hulya Taskapan, Halil Toktaş, Ozkan Ulutas, Adnan Ozkahraman, Melda Comert

“…In logistic regression analysis female gender, not having vitamin D supplementation history, low serum albumin, and low blood urea nitrogen levels were significant independent predictors of vitamin D deficiency while no association of vitamin D deficiency with diabetes mellitus, serum creatinine, eGFR, and being hospitalized was found. …”
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Safety and Efficacy of Bivalirudin versus Unfractionated Heparin Monotherapy in Patients with CAD and DM Undergoing PCI: A Retrospective Observational Study by Jing Li, Sanbao Chen, Sicong Ma, Mingque Yang, Zizhao Qi, Kun Na, Miaohan Qiu, Yi Li, Yaling Han

“…Optimal anticoagulants for patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are unclear. …”
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Analysis of macular retinal thickness in polyarteritis nodosa using spectral domain optical coherence tomography by Che-Ning Yang, Chia-Ping Chen, Yi-Ting Hsieh

“…Methods A total of 24 PAN patients who had been for 3 years or more and underwent SD-OCT were recruited from the UK Biobank, with exclusions for diabetes, eye disease, or abnormal CFP findings. Only the right eyes were included, with each PAN patient paired one-to-one with a control matched for age, sex, and ethnicity. …”
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Factors Related to Significant Improvement of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rates in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients Receiving Telbivudine Therapy by Te-Fu Lin, Ping-I Hsu, Kung-Hung Lin, Feng-Woei Tsay, Tzung-Jiun Tsai, Yan-Hua Chen, Hsien-Chung Yu

“…According to a multivariate analysis, diabetes mellitus (DM) (p=0.028) and CKD-3 (p=0.043) were both significantly related to such improvement. …”
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Detection of Amylin-β-amyloid Hetero-Oligomers by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay by Noah Leibold, Deepak Kotiya, Nirmal Verma, Florin Despa

“…The utility of this assay is evidenced in our previous report, wherein differences in hetero-oligomer content in brain tissue from patients with and without AD and patients with and without diabetes were distinguished. Additionally, using AD model rats, we provided evidence that our assay can be employed for the detection of amylin-Aβ in blood. …”
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Optimización SGLT2 para cardionefro protección by Yukiko Harumi Yamasaki Ramos, Marbella Haddad Toledo

“…Los inhibidores del cotransportador de sodio-glucosa tipo 2 (SGLT2) no solo regulan los niveles de glucosa en la diabetes tipo 2, sino que también ofrecen protección renal y cardiovascular. …”
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A Prediction Model for Prediabetes Risk in Middle-Aged and Elderly Populations: A Prospective Cohort Study in China by Jiahua Wu, Jiaqiang Zhou, Xueyao Yin, Yixin Chen, Xihua Lin, Zhiye Xu, Hong Li

“…In the univariate analyses, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), fasting serum insulin (FINS), 2 h plasma glucose (2hPG), HbA1c, serum uric acid (SUA), waist circumference (WC), smoking, and family history of diabetes (FHD) were found to be significantly correlated with prediabetes. …”
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Development and Validation of a Nomogram Model for Predicting the Risk of Readmission in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction within 1 Year by Yue Hu, Xiaotong Wang, Shengjue Xiao, Chunyan Huan, Huimin Wu, Tao Xu, Minjia Guo, Hong Zhu, Defeng Pan

“…Independent risk factors for HF readmission of patients with HFrEF within 1 year of hospital discharge were as follows: age, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, left ventricular ejection fraction, and angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitors. …”
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Ranolazine Induced Bradycardia, Renal Failure, and Hyperkalemia: A BRASH Syndrome Variant by Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, Danial Shaikh, Muhammad Saad, Timothy J. Vittorio

“…Her medical comorbidities included hypertension, diabetes, CAD, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, hypothyroidism, and a history of cerebrovascular accident without any residual deficits. …”
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Establishment of a Risk Prediction Model for Pulmonary Infection in Patients with Advanced Cancer by Liangliang Yang, Xiaolong Xu, Qingquan Liu

“…Demographics, whether the primary cancer was lung cancer, lung metastasis, the pathological classification of lung cancer patients, the number of metastases, history of surgery, history of chemotherapy, history of radiotherapy, history of central venous catheterization, history of hypertension, diabetes, and whether with myelosuppression were recorded. …”
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Risk factors related to COVID-19. Turcios Lima Polyclinic. Pinar del Rio, 2020-2021 by Jorge Félix Rodríguez Ramos, Gema Chávez Ivizate, Raquel Piloto González

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: the most frequent risk factors were: male sex (X2=8.5900; p&lt;0.001), urban residence (X2=509.03; p&lt;0.001) and occupation as a student or worker (X2=199 .93, p&lt;0.001); as well as personal medical history of diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, ischemic heart disease, bronchial asthma, heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.…”
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