Prurigo Pigmentosa: A Clinicopathological Report of Three Middle Eastern Patients by N. Almaani, A. H. Al-Tarawneh, H. Msallam

“…One patient developed prurigo pigmentosa while fasting during the month of Ramadan and another was undertaking a strict diet. …”
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Thyroid Dysfunction in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional, Epidemiological, Pan-India Study by Vaishali Deshmukh, Faraz Farishta, Milind Bhole

“…Blood samples were tested for hemogram, coagulogram, lipid profile, and thyroid function. Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and fasting plasma insulin were used for the calculation of homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). …”
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Gambaran NAFLD pada Pasien dengan Sindrom Metabolik di Poliklinik Penyakit Dalam RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Nadila Andam Astari, Eva Decroli, Eti Yerizel

“…From those 20 cases, 20 have central obesity (100%), 19 have impaired fasting blood sugar (95%), 13 have hypertriglyceridemia (65%), 13 have decrease of blood HDL level (65%), and 15 have hypertension (75%).…”
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Effects of Food on the Pharmacokinetics and Safety of HA121-28 Tablet, a Novel Multi-Targeting Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor, in Healthy Chinese Subjects: A Phase I Clinical Trial by Liu Y, Li X, Zhang M, Men Y, Wang Y, Zhu X, Zheng L

“…Subjects received 200 mg HA121-28 in the fasted state or with high-fat and high-calorie breakfast. …”
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Fetuin-A Characteristics during and after Pregnancy: Result from a Case Control Pilot Study by Serdar Farhan, Ammon Handisurya, Jelena Todoric, Andrea Tura, Giovanni Pacini, Oswald Wagner, Katharina Klein, Rudolf Jarai, Kurt Huber, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

“…All women underwent an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in and 3 months after gestation. Results. Fasting fetuin-A correlated with BMI in women with former GDM (r=0.90, P<0.0001) but showed no association with parameters of glucose tolerance in women with GDM or post-GDM. …”
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Role of Intestinal Transit in the Pathogenesis of Gallbladder Stones by R Hermon Dowling, Martin J Veysey, Stephen P Pereira, S Hyder Hussaini, Linzi A Thomas, John AH Wass, Gerard M Murphy

“…LBTT is linearly related to the percentage of DCA in fasting serum and correlates significantly with DCA input (into the enterohepatic circulation) and DCA pool size. …”
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A Combined Therapy with Myo-Inositol and D-Chiro-Inositol Improves Endocrine Parameters and Insulin Resistance in PCOS Young Overweight Women by Elena Benelli, Scilla Del Ghianda, Caterina Di Cosmo, Massimo Tonacchera

“…Thus, we analyzed pretreatment and posttreatment FSH, LH, 17-beta-Estradiol, Sex Hormone Binding Globulin, androstenedione, free testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, HOMA index, and fasting glucose and insulin. Results. We recorded a statistically significant reduction of LH, free testosterone, fasting insulin, and HOMA index only in the group treated with the combined therapy of MI plus DCI; in the same patients, we observed a statistically significant increase of 17-beta-Estradiol levels. …”
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IL-6 Promotes Islet β-Cell Dysfunction in Rat Collagen-Induced Arthritis by Huan Jin, Yaogui Ning, Haotong Zhou, Youlian Wang

“…Fasting insulin (FIns) and the expressions of IL-6 were detected by ELISA. …”
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Burden of Hypertension in the Capital of Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional Study in Kabul City, 2015 by Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed

“…Demographic, socioeconomic, and behavior data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Fasting venous blood sample was collected to assess the lipid profile and fasting blood sugar. …”
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Nesfatin-1 as a crucial mediator of glucose homeostasis in the reptile, Hemidactylus flaviviridis by Krittika Dotania, Mamta Tripathy, Umesh Rai

“…Therefore, present study elucidates role of nesfatin-1 in glucose homeostasis in wall lizard wherein fasting stimulated hepatic nucb2/nesfatin-1, glycogen phosphorylase (glyp), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (pepck), and fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase (fbp), while feeding upregulated pancreatic nucb2/nesfatin-1 and insulin, suggesting towards tissue-specific dual role of nesfatin-1 in glucoregulation. …”
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Influence of Helicobacter pylori Infection on Metabolic Syndrome in Old Chinese People by Wen Yang, Cunfu Xuan

“…Patients with H. pylori infection had higher BMI and fasting glucose levels and incidence of metabolic syndrome (p<0.01). …”
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses: a comparison of meta- and mega-analyses in the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study by Alan Kuang, Marie-France Hivert, M. Geoffrey Hayes, William L. Lowe, Denise M. Scholtens

“…The meta-analysis pipeline identified genome-wide significant associations for 15 variants in a region close to GCK on chromosome 7 with maternal fasting glucose and no significant findings for 1-hr glucose. …”
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Glycolipids as Potential Energy Molecules during Starvation in Climbing Perch, Anabas testudineus (Bloch) by Padmavathi Godavarthy, Y. Sunila Kumari

“…The present study is an attempt to understand whether glycolipids can act as energy sources during fasting. To achieve this, we selected and subjected Anabas testudineus to short-term (15 days) and long-term (60 days) laboratory starvation. …”
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Estimation of Undiagnosed Diabetes and Pre-diabetes in People 45–75 Years in Two Blocks of Himachal Pradesh, India: A Cross-sectional Study by Ashok Bhardwaj, Sanjay Kumar, Mitasha Singh, Chirag Goel

“…Diabetes and pre-diabetes prevalence was calculated using fasting blood glucose (FBS), OGTT, and HbA1c criteria of the World Health Organization individually. …”
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Oleuropein Improves Cognitive Dysfunction and Neuroinflammation in Diabetic Rats through the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Pathway by Jianru Shang, Shan Che, Mingjie Zhu

“…A diabetic rat model was constructed using streptozotocin, and the diabetic rats were divided into 3 groups with different treatment for 4 weeks, named STZ group (gavaged with normal saline), STZ+LOE group (40 mg/kg oleuropein, and STZ+SITA group (30 mg/kg sitagliptin). The fasting blood glucose (FBG), fasting serum insulin levels, and HOMA-IR index were measured in rats. …”
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The Effect of Alcoholic Extract of Anabasis syriaca Iljin on Biochemical and Histological Parameters in Rats by Suad M. Kloub, Saleem A. Banihani, Omar M. Atrooz, Wael M. Hananeh

“…Blood was collected after overnight fasting, and 24 biochemical parameters were evaluated. …”
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Influence of Listening to Jiao Tune on Sleep Quality and Blood Glucose in the Elderly Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Accompanied by Insomnia by Xuxing LIN, Jingmin JI, Guoying ZHOU

“…Time of falling asleep of the jiao tone group was better than that of the western music group and the control group respectively. The fasting blood glucose in the jiao tune group and the western music goup was lower than that of the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Listening to jiao tone can improve sleep quality, descend fasting blood glucose and reduce the time of falling asleep in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes accompanied by insomnia of liver-fire type.…”
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Anti-diabetic effect of aloin via JNK-IRS1/PI3K pathways and regulation of gut microbiota by Ruting Zhong, Lanbin Chen, Yuanyuan Liu, Shouxia Xie, Sumei Li, Bin Liu, Chao Zhao

“…Additionally, it diminished the weight loss, reduced fasting blood glucose levels and hemoglobin A1c activity, and promoted glucose tolerance and fasting serum insulin activity in T2D mice. …”
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Relationship between Adiponectin Level, Insulin Sensitivity, and Metabolic Syndrome in Type 1 Diabetic Patients by Kristina Blaslov, Tomislav Bulum, Karin Zibar, Lea Duvnjak

“…Patients with higher adiponectin level () had significantly lower waist circumference (), fasting venous glucose levels (), higher HDL3-cholesterol (), and eGDR () in comparison to the group with lower adiponectin who showed higher prevalence of MS (). eGDR increased for 1.09 mg/kg−1 min−1 by each increase of 1 µg/mL total fasting plasma adiponectin (). …”
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Factors in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Predicting the Needs for Insulin Therapy by Ya Zhang, Jiashen Shao, Feifei Li, Xianming Xu

“…The probability of insulin therapy can be estimated in pregnant women with GDM based on fasting and 2 h glucose values during OGTT and HbA1c value at diagnosis of GDM.…”
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