Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common diseases in clinical cardiovascular practice, mainly afflicting the middle-aged and elderly.
Zhi Liu +4 more
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Rural to Urban Migration and Changes in Cardiovascular risk Factors in Tanzania: A Prospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
High levels of rural to urban migration are a feature of most African countries. Our aim was to investigate changes, and their determinants, in cardiovascular risk factors on rural to urban migration in Tanzania.
AB Swai +31 more
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Translocating the blood-brain barrier using electrostatics [PDF]
Copyright © 2012 Ribeiro,Domingues, Freire,Santos and Castanho. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the ...
Castanho, Miguel A. R. B. +4 more
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Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses [PDF]
Objective To assess the effect of decreased sodium intake on blood pressure, related cardiovascular diseases, and potential adverse effects such as changes in blood lipids, catecholamine levels, and renal function.
Aburto, Nancy J. +5 more
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Lipids, liver and pancreas at the crossroads of metabolic syndrome and obesity epidemics
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic fatty pancreatic disease (NAFPD) is 1/4–1/3 of the planet population.
O. V. Efimova +5 more
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Long-term effect of antiepileptic drug switch on serum lipids and C-reactive protein. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Prior studies have shown that switching patients from inducing antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) to lamotrigine, levetiracetam, or topiramate reduces serum lipids and C-reactive protein (CRP). These studies were all of short duration, and some drugs,
Chervoneva, Inna +6 more
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Are Sportive Games Affecting the Lipid Profile in Adolescents?
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of sportive games on the lipid profile in some selected branches for ten weeks applied to adolescents.
Vedat Çınar +3 more
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Plasma metabolites reflect seasonally changing metabolic processes in a long-distance migrant shorebird (Calidris canutus) [PDF]
Migrant birds have tightly scheduled annual cycles consisting of several distinct life cycle (sub-)stages such as reproduction, migration, moult and overwintering, each of which have specific metabolic requirements (e.g., fattening during migration ...
Jenni, Lukas, +2 more
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Features of the lipid profile of blood in women of pre-retirement and retirement age
Objective: To analyze the possible features of the blood lipid parameters of women in pre-retirement and retirement age. Materials and methods. We used materials of the two major international projects – «MONICA» and «HAPIEE».
Yu. P. Nikitin +3 more
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DIET AND THE BLOOD LIPIDS [PDF]
The lipids, cholesterol and its fatty acid esters, phospholipids and fat are always found in the blood of animals. In the corpuscles, the content of cholesterol and phospholipid is about the same for all animals, in the plasma the content of these substances is variable, being in general much higher in the plasma of carnivora than in that of herbivora.
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