Lower serum paraoxonase-1 activity is related to linoleic and docosahexanoic fatty acids in type 2 diabetic patientsZorica Rasic-Milutinovic
Department of Endocrinology, University Clinical Center Zemun Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Arch Med Res 43:75-82. 2012
..Until now there are no data about the association of any fatty acid (FA) with PON-1 activity in T2DM...
Do components of metabolic syndrome contribute to cardiac autonomic neuropathy in non-diabetic patients?Zorica R Rasic-Milutinovic
Department of Endocrinology, Zemun Clinical Hospital, 9 Vukova Street, Zemun 11080, Belgrade, Serbia
Saudi Med J 31:650-7. 2010
..To evaluate whether autonomic dysfunction exist in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS) to establish any association with components of MetS...
- Association of blood pressure and metabolic syndrome components with magnesium levels in drinking water in some Serbian municipalities
Zorica Rasic-Milutinovic
Department of Endocrinology, Zemun Clinical Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia
J Water Health 10:161-9. 2012
..These results suggest that Mg supplementation in areas of lower magnesium levels in drinking water may be an important measure in the prevention of hypertension and MetS in general...
- Insulin resistance and chronic inflammation are associated with muscle wasting in end-stage renal disease patients on hemodialysis
Zorica Rasic-Milutinovic
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University Hospital Zemun, Vukova 9, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
Gen Physiol Biophys 28:184-9. 2009
..The effect of chronic inflammation was not so strong in females, and this point out that regulation of muscle wasting in female patients probably differs from that in males...
- Low levels of arsenic in drinking water and type 2 diabetes in Middle Banat region, Serbia
Dragana Jovanovic
Institute of Public Health of Serbia Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut, Dr Subotica 5, Belgrade, Serbia
Int J Hyg Environ Health 216:50-5. 2013
..The population from Middle Banat region, consuming drinking water with low levels of arsenic, was at higher risk for the occurrence of type 2 diabetes in comparison to the unexposed population in Central Serbia...
- Arsenic in drinking water and acute coronary syndrome in Zrenjanin municipality, Serbia
Dragana D Jovanović
Institute of Public Health of Serbia Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut, Dr Subotica 5, Belgrade, Serbia
Environ Res 117:75-82. 2012
..It presents a great public health problem in Serbia, but its relationship with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) has not been studied previously...
- Relation of CuZnSOD activity with renal insufficiency in hypertensive diabetic patients
Ana Stancic
University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research Sinisa Stankovic, Department of Physiology, Serbia
Indian J Biochem Biophys 49:97-100. 2012
..Our results suggest that disturbances in superoxide homeostasis do correlate with long-term complication in diabetes, i.e. diabetic renal insufficiency and hypertension...
- Metabolic syndrome in HD patients: association with body composition, nutritional status, inflammation and serum iron
Zorica Rasic-Milutinovic
Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital, Zemun Belgrade, Serbia
Intern Med 46:945-51. 2007
..Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome (MeS) are common in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD). Such metabolic and clinical abnormalities may lead to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease...
- Arsenic occurrence in drinking water supply systems in ten municipalities in Vojvodina Region, Serbia
Dragana Jovanovic
Institute of Public Health of Serbia Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut, Dr Subotica 5, Belgrade, Serbia
Environ Res 111:315-8. 2011
..Large variations in arsenic were observed among supply systems. Arsenic concentrations in public water supply systems in Vojvodina were much higher than in other countries in the Pannonian Basin...
