Teoman Dogru

..These data suggest that platelet aggregation may not be involved in the mechanism of prothrombotic state in prediabetic state...

..These results indicate that hyperglycemia causes an increase in plasma visfatin levels and, as in people with T2DM but not with IGT, this increase gets more prominent as the glucose intolerance worsens...

..We aimed to evaluate the relationships among these factors in a young hypertensive group who had no confounding factors...

..The power of the study was 0.93 for sP-selectin, 0.7 for hsCRP and 1.0 for HOMA. Our data suggest that sP-selectin may not contribute to the prothrombotic state as well as the accelerated atherogenesis associated with prediabetes...

..393, p = 0.003; beta = 0.285, p = 0.03, respectively). Future studies are necessary in order to clearly define the role of ADMA and apelin in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension...

..29, P = .05) and HOMA indexes (r = 0.4, P = .008) in subjects with NAFLD. The results of this preliminary study suggest that plasma apelin levels are not altered in nondiabetic and normotensive male subjects with NAFLD...

..Though the sample size was small, the present data show that sCD40L seems not to alter in subjects with IFG suggesting that it might not be an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis...

..Our aim was to investigate the relationship of IL-18 with adiponectin and liver histology in subjects with NAFLD who had no additional disorder such as morbid obesity, diabetes mellitus and hypertension...

..We aimed to investigate circulating vaspin levels in subjects with NASH and also to search for the association of vaspin with IR, adiponectin, and histological findings...

..Our data, however, were limited by the fact that a more accurate method of assessing insulin sensitivity, the euglycaemic-hyperinsulinaemic glucose clamp technique, was not used...

..We aimed to investigate circulating ADMA concentrations in biopsy proven NAFLD and also to search its association with carotid atherosclerosis...

..We evaluated the effects of two insulin-sensitizing hypoglycemic agents on plasma visfatin and adiponectin levels in patients with newly diagnosed and untreated type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)...

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..001). The present data show that sCD40L and sP-selectin may not contribute to the accelerated atherogenesis associated with this clinically relevant condition...

..The results also imply that increased ChT activity may be a predictor of endothelial dysfunction...

..To investigate the role of small dense low density lipoprotein cholesterol (sd-LDL-C) in the mechanism of decreased incidence of cardiovascular disease in Gilbert's syndrome (GS)...

..More experiments may show a substantial role for this peptide in the mechanism of atherosclerosis...

..01) and systolic blood pressures were higher (p = 0.02) in the smokers. These results indicate that smoking may not affect plasma adiponectin and insulin levels in young and healthy men with high exercise capacity...

..However, no data is available regarding the alteration of TGF-? in IGT subjects. Therefore, we aimed to investigate TGF-? levels in otherwise healthy subjects with IGT...

..To investigate the role of CD40 ligand and P-selectin in the mechanism of decreased incidence of cardiovascular disease in Gilbert's syndrome (GS)...

..Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Mean platelet volume (MPV), a determinant of platelet activation, is an emerging risk factor for atherothrombosis...

..This may be a clue for the familial tendency of atherosclerotic diseases. Further follow-up studies are necessary to investigate the relationship...

..Apelin is a novel adipocytokine produced by white adipose tissue that binds the APJ receptor with high affinity. Insulin may have a role in regulation of apelin synthesis and secretion from the adipose tissue...

..Venous thrombosis of the lower extremities in young patients should prompt the clinician to search for underlying local malignancies...

..In this case senna was likely the cause of a subacute cholestatic hepatitis exemplifying again the potential role of herbal related liver injury...

..falciparum. Mefloquine and doxycycline are among the recommended prophylactic regimes. The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy and tolerability of the two regimes on the Turkish soldiers settled in Kabul, Afghanistan...