Diabetes technology & therapeutics
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Diabetes Technol. Ther. · Feb 2015
Metabolic obesity, adipocytokines, and inflammatory markers in Asian Indians--CURES-124.
This study looked at the association of adipokines, inflammatory and oxidative stress markers in subjects with the following phenotypes: metabolically healthy, nonobese (MHNO), metabolically healthy, obese (MHO), metabolically obese, nonobese (MONO), and metabolically obese, obese (MOO). ⋯ The metabolically obese phenotype is characterized by altered adipokine and inflammatory profiles, which could make this phenotype at high risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases.
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Diabetes Technol. Ther. · Feb 2015
Observational StudySkin autofluorescence and complications of diabetes: does ethnic background or skin color matter?
Skin autofluorescence (AF) has been associated with complications of diabetes. We evaluated the influence of skin color and ethnicity on the association between skin AF and the presence of diabetes-related complications. ⋯ Skin AF measurement is a valuable tool for the assessment of micro- and macrovascular complication risk in patients with light skin color types. Even after exclusion of patients with too low a reflectance, the current performance of the AGE Reader™ (DiagnOptics Technologies BV, Groningen, The Netherlands) was insufficient in darker-skinned patients.