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Individuals with diabetes mellitus are at 2- to 3-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease relative to individuals without diabetes, and hypoglycemia is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality in diabetic patients....
Hypertriglyceridemia has been considered as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. However, triglyceride levels are influenced by many clinical and lipid risk factors. When triglyceride levels are adjusted by these...
Increasing rates of obesity are related to increasing incidence of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The need to prevent and treat obesity is an...
The topic of the extragastric manifestations of Helicobacter pylori infection continues to capture the attention of many researchers all over the world. There are, in fact, several studies concerning obesity,...
Traditional risk factors for predicting of cardiovascular disease are not always effective predictors for development of cardiovascular events. This review summarizes several newly developed noninvasive imaging techniques for evaluating carotid...
Although an elevation of serum uric acid level is often associated with kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome, it remains controversial whether hyperuricemia per se is a true risk...
Diabetes is a well-known risk factor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and the beneficial effect of improved glycemic control on cardiovascular complications has been well established. However, the rosiglitazone experience...
Since the discovery of Helicobacter pylori, there have been many studies that demonstrate the role of H. pylori infection in extragastric disease. Several studies show that H. pylori infection seems...
Given the continuous advances in the hardware and software of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cardiac MRI has come to be a routine imaging modality in clinical settings for evaluating both...