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Childhood overweight and obesity are related to cardiovascular risk (CVR) factors (hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, abnormal lipid profiles and increased risk of adult obesity and high morbidity and mortality rates. Methods: We performed a retrospective study of 78 overweight and obese children, hospitalized in a Pediatric Clinic from Saint Mary Hospital Iasi, 42 girls and 37 boys. The nutritional...
Objective: To understand the research hotspots of C-reactive protein by PubMed. Methods: With MS Excel, SPSS, Cytoscape software, we took MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) word frequency analysis, clustering analysis, co-word network graph of PubMed papers. Results: It shows that the current C-reactive protein research hotspots had focus on "Inflammation, Cardiovascular Diseases, Biological Markers,...
The prevalence of obesity is growing at an alarming rate, placing many at risk for developing diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, or a combination of disorders known as “metabolic syndrome”. The evidence to date suggests that metabolic syndrome results from an imbalance in the mechanisms that link diet, physical activity, glucose-insulin control, and autonomic cardiovascular control. There is also...
The socioeconomic transformations in the last decades and its consequent changes to societies lifestyle have increased the incidence of chronic diseases. Genomic medicine has suggested that the exposure to risk factors since conception may influence gene expression and consequently induce the development of chronic diseases in adulthood . Scientific papers bringing up these discoveries indicate that...
An eLearning model in prevention of nutrition-related diseases (NRD) was developed for the first time in Thailand utilizing innovative information and communication technology to deliver nutrition and health education to prevent the NRD diseases including obesity, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes and hypertension for senior working adults. It was developed following experts' opinions and then...
Mice are now commonly used as models of human cardiovascular diseases and conditions, but it is challenging to measure blood flow velocity in small vessels such as coronary arteries. Accordingly, we have developed a method using a 2 mm diameter 20 MHz pulsed Doppler probe applied to the chest of anesthetized mice to measure left main coronary blood flow velocity noninvasively. We also found that coronary...
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