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    Gestational diabetes mellitus in Africa: a systematic review.

    Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is any degree of impaired glucose tolerance first recognised during pregnancy. Most women with GDM revert to normal glucose...
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    What Is New for an Old Molecule? Systematic Review and Recommendations on the...

    BACKGROUND:Resveratrol is a natural compound suggested to have beneficial health effects. However, people are consuming resveratrol for this reason without having the adequate...
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    Additional file 5: of Fetuin-A levels are increased in the adipose tissue of ...

    Figure S2. Adiponectin levels and effect of exercise on the subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) of obese subjects with and without diabetes. Immunofluorescence analysis of...
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    The changes of nutrition labeling of packaged food in Hangzhou in China durin...

    Objective To understand the changes of the nutrition labeling of packaged food in China two years after the promulgation of the Regulation for Food Nutrition Labeling, which...
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    Development and Validation of a Risk Score Predicting Substantial Weight Gain...

    Background: Identifying individuals at high risk of excess weight gain may help targeting prevention efforts at those at risk of various metabolic diseases associated with...
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    Understanding a successful obesity prevention initiative in children under 5 ...

    Introduction/Background Systems thinking represents an innovative and logical approach to understanding complexity in community-based obesity prevention interventions. We...
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    Relationship between Research Outcomes and Risk of Bias, Study Sponsorship, a...

    Background Artificially sweetened beverage consumption has steadily increased in the last 40 years. Several reviews examining the effects of artificially sweetened beverages...
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    Measuring the importance of vertices in the weighted human disease network

    AbstractMany human genetic disorders and diseases are known to be related to each other through frequently observed co-occurrences. Studying the correlations among multiple...
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    Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and ...

    Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks...
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    TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic ...

    In 1993 the journal Pediatrics published an editorial entitled “TV or not TV: Fat is the question” [1]. It critiqued a study that used both cross-sectional and longitudinal...
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    Additional file 2: of Fetuin-A levels are increased in the adipose tissue of ...

    Figure S1. Correlation analysis. Correlation of circulating fetuin-A with HbA1c, TG, HDL and FBG were assessed in the whole population using Spearman’s rank correlation...
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    Financial conflicts of interest and reporting bias regarding the association ...

    Maira Bes-Rastrollo and colleagues examine whether financial conflicts of interest are likely to bias conclusions from systematic reviews that investigate the relationship...
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    Small Molecule-Induced Complement Factor D (Adipsin) Promotes Lipid Accumulat...

    Adipocytes are differentiated by various transcriptional cascades integrated on the master regulator, Pparγ. To discover new genes involved in adipocyte differentiation,...
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    Additional file 3 of Rugby Fans in Training New Zealand (RUFIT-NZ): protocol ...

    Additional file 3. Flow Chart Illustrating Enrolment and Randomisation Process.
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    Figure S2. FKBP5 methylation associated with cardiometabolic risk in individuals with diabetes including all available data. (PPTX 28 kb)
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    Mice Lacking Natural Killer T Cells Are More Susceptible to Metabolic Alterat...

    Current estimates suggest that over one-third of the adult population has metabolic syndrome and three-fourths of the obese population has non-alcoholic fatty liver disease...
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    Dairy products and inflammation: A review of the clinical evidence

    Inflammation is a major biological process regulating the interaction between organisms and the environment, including the diet. Because of the increase in chronic inflammatory...
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    Association between maternal overweight or obesity and cerebral palsy in chil...

    Context There is no consensus regarding the association between maternal obesity or overweight and cerebral palsy (CP) in children. Objectives To investigate whether...
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    Ethical issues in the development and implementation of nutrition-related pub...

    Background The limited integration of ethics in nutrition-related public health policies and interventions is one major concern for those who have the task of implementing...