Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women Having Female Pattern Hair Loss by Damini Verma, Vibhu Mendiratta, Taru Garg, Smita Tripathi, Shaili Tomer

“…The objective was to measure carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) by doppler ultrasound, Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, lipid profile, fasting blood sugar (FBS), insulin, testosterone, Sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), hs-CRP, ESR and fibrinogen, in pre-menopausal women having FPHL and to correlate these parameters with severity of FPHL. …”
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Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis TG11 ameliorates loperamide-induced constipation in mice by modulating gut microbiota by Weiwei Ma, Yiyang Zhao, Yuyang Liu, Yanyan Wang, Shuang Yu, Lili Huang

“…Fecal samples were collected for short-chain fatty acid and gut microbiota analyses. Following a 16-hour fasting period, various parameters were assessed on day 15, including intestinal motility, fecal water content, defecation status, gut peptide levels in blood, and mRNA expression levels of SCF and c-kit in colonic tissue.ResultsTG11 significantly enhanced intestinal motility and maintained fecal water content. …”
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Is the Occurrence or Reversal of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Associated with Long-Term Helicobacter pylori Infection among Chinese Adults? A Cohort Study by Xia-Xia Zhao, Rui-Ling Wang, Ming-Hao Liu, Xiao-jun Huang

“…Besides, the incidence of uric acid, postprandial blood glucose, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C, and fasting plasma glucose was significantly different between the two groups (p<0.001), but no difference was found in alanine aminotransferase (ALT), liver-total protein, urea nitrogen, and cholesterol (p>0.05). …”
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Diabetes management self-efficacy and glycaemic control among people with type 2 diabetes in a resource-limited setting by Idongesit L. Jackson, Unyime I. Eshiet, Samuel I. Onung, Esther S. Egbe

“…Glycaemic control was assessed with fasting blood glucose (FBG). Data were analysed using SPSS v.25.0. …”
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Increased Small Dense LDL and Decreased Paraoxonase Enzyme Activity Reveals Formation of an Atherogenic Risk in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Guinea Pigs by Mutay Aslan, Filiz Ozcan, Ertan Kucuksayan

“…Guinea pigs were given a single intraperitoneal (ip) injection of streptozotocin (STZ) and animals having fasting blood glucose levels greater than 200 mg/dl, were considered diabetic. …”
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Physical activity and metabolic syndrome in primary care patients in Spain. by Rafael Manuel Micó-Pérez, Natalia Hernández Segura, Vicente Martín-Sánchez, Alfonso Barquilla-García, Sonsoles M Velilla-Zancada, José Polo-García, Miguel Ángel Prieto-Díaz, Vicente Pallares-Carratala, Antonio Segura-Fragoso, Leovigildo Ginel-Mendoza, Sergio Cinza-Sanjurjo

“…The adjusted ANOVA model shows that diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, and waist circumference were significantly lower the higher the level of physical activity in both men and women (p<0.05).…”
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Methotrexate-Associated Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with Transaminitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Rajalingham Sakthiswary, Grace Yin Lai Chan, Ee Tzun Koh, Khai Pang Leong, Bernard Yu Hor Thong

“…Compared to the controls, the cases had significantly higher mean cumulative dose of MTX (4.03 ± 2.25 g versus 10.04 ± 9.94 g, P≤0.05), weekly dose of MTX (11.3 ± 4.8 mg versus 13.1 ± 4.4 mg weekly, P=0.033), and fasting blood glucose (P=0.029). Following multivariate regression analysis, only cumulative dose of MTX remained significant (P=0.015). …”
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Relation between Renal Function and Insulin Resistance of Type 2 Diabetic Iraqi Patients by Rami Fadhel Lefta, Ekhlas Abdallah Hassan

“…The patients of T2DM was divided into three group according to them eGFR, 20 stage I patients (G1), 25 stage II diabetic patients (G2) and 25 stage III diabetic patients (G3). Insulin, fasting plasma glucose (FBG), HbA1c, and renal function were measured in all subject. …”
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Resolution of Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes after Laparoscopic Truncal Vagotomy, Subtotal Gastrectomy, and Roux-en-Y Gastrojejunostomy for a Patient with Intractable Gastric Ulcers by Laura F. Tait, Gezzer Ortega, Daniel D. Tran, Terrence M. Fullum

“…Significant improvements in her fasting blood glucose levels were seen 10 days postoperatively from a preoperative level of 147 mg/dl to 97 mg/dl. …”
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Evaluation of lipid profile in patients with cherry angioma: A case–control study in Iraqi patients by Mohammed K. Al-Hattab, Ansaar H. Gahlool, Jinan H. Al-Kalidi

“…For the purpose of assessing lipid profile, we used Beckman Coulter/Olympus—AU480 Chemistry Analyser was used in measuring fasting serum lipid profile parameters, including triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (Tch), high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C). …”
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Association between Platelet to Neutrophil Ratio (PNR) and Clinical Outcomes in STEMI Patients after Successful pPCI: A Secondary Analysis Based on a Cohort Study by Hao Wang, Xiaochun Qing, Hua Wang, Yunfei Gu

“…After adjusting for age, sex, anterior wall myocardial infarction (MI), history of MI, apelin-12, apelin-12 change rate, left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, peak cardiac troponin I, pathological Q wave, Killip classification grade, fasting blood glucose, albumin, GENSINI score, and estimated glomerular filtration rate, a nonlinear relationship was found between the PNR and MACEs in the included cohort. …”
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The Effectiveness of Myo-Inositol and D-Chiro Inositol Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes by Basilio Pintaudi, Giacoma Di Vieste, Matteo Bonomo

“…After three months of treatment fasting blood glucose (192.6±60.2 versus 160.9±36.4; p=0.02) and HbA1c levels (8.6±0.9 versus 7.7±0.9; p=0.02) significantly decreased compared to baseline. …”
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Crude Ethanol Extract of Diospyros mespiliformis Hochst. ex A. DC. Ebenaceae Leaf and Its Fractions Ameliorate Hyperglycemia and Hyperlipidemia in Alloxan-induced Diabetic Rats by Mubarak Muhammad Dahiru, Neksumi Musa

“…The result indicated a significant (p < 0.05) decrease and improvement in fasting blood glucose (FBG) level and body weight, respectively. …”
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Association of Aldosterone and Cortisol with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Prehypertension Stage by Sadiqa Badar Syed, Masood Anwar Qureshi

“…Serum cortisol, aldosterone, total cholesterol, Low density lipoproteins, blood glucose, Na+ and K+, using standard laboratory techniques, were determined in fasting blood samples. Results. Subjects were mostly overweight and obese (80%, 90%, and 76% in pre-HTN, stage-I and II versus 69% in controls). …”
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Association of Androgen-Receptor Gene Mutations with the Copy Number of Androgen-Receptor Silk Protein A Complex and Glutathione-S-Transferases T1 and M1 in Prostate Cancer Patient... by Yan Zhang, Xiangdi Meng, Zhaosen Ma, Zhou Sun, Zhixin Wang

“…Eighty-five patients with PC and 85 healthy controls were included in the study. Fasting peripheral venous blood was collected, whole blood genomic DNA was extracted, and AR gene-receptor genotype was detected by a high-resolution melting curve analysis detection technology. …”
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Examining the Effect of Consuming C8 Medium-Chain Triglyceride Oil for 14 Days on Markers of NLRP3 Activation in Healthy Humans by Helena Neudorf, Garett Jackson, Jonathan P. Little

“…Consuming a single dose of 15 mL of C8 MCT oil significantly raised blood βHB from fasting at 60 minutes and 120 minutes post ingestion (both P<0.05). …”
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Characterization of Type 2 Diabetic Patients Admitted to the Diabetes Care Center of Cienfuegos by Gisela Zerquera Trujillo, Belkis Vicente Sánchez, Elodia Rivas Alpizar, Miriam Costa Cruz

“…It was explored the treatment on admission and discharge, parameters of fasting blood glucose glycemia, total cholesterol, uric acid, micro albuminuria, so as the presence of some of the most frequent chronic complications. …”
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Limb-Specific Comparison of Flow-Mediated Dilation in Abdominal Obese Pre-menopausal Women by Robert M. Restaino, Matthew A. Barlow

“…Results Significant differences were found between groups including % BF, BMI, weight, waist to hip ratio, fasting blood glucose, and oxLDL. A between-group comparison revealed significantly lower percent dilation of the popliteal artery in AO participants compared to controls (p < 0.05) not present in the brachial arteries. …”
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The Effect of Tianmai Xiaoke Pian on Insulin Resistance through PI3-K/AKT Signal Pathway by Nana Wang, Tiegang Li, Ping Han

“…To understand its mechanism of action on insulin resistance, TMXKP (50 mg/kg orally) was tested in T2DM rats (induced by a high-fat diet and streptozotocin). Eight weeks later, fasting blood glucose (FBG) and oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT) were performed. …”
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Antidiabetic Potential of Senna siamea: α-Glucosidase Inhibition, Postprandial Blood Glucose Reduction, Toxicity Evaluation, and Molecular Docking by Suthinee Sangkanu, Armad Heemman, Sathianpong Phoopha, Thanet Pitakbut, Wandee Udomuksorn, Sukanya Dej-adisai

“…The results showed that all extract concentrations significantly reduced fasting blood glucose compared with the control. In addition, results also agreed with the amount of sucrose in the small intestine of rats. …”
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