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Filter by:Obesity continues to pose major public health challenges worldwide with cardiovascular damage, hypertension and diabetes as possible subsequent conditions. The obese are at risk for mortality and morbidity as they suffer from a high level of immune sensitivity with consequences related to damage to the circulation and microvasculature. The immune process itself is modulated by cytokines, which are small proteins which can modulate the spectrum of the inflammatory process. These proteins may act as biomarkers in the mouth. Diabetes is also a consequence of sustained obesity and this condition can strongly influence immune status. Diabetes is characterized by the failure to produce the hormone insulin or a loss of sensitivity to insulin. Without insulin high blood glucose results in the release of a series of pro-inflammatory factors, which lead to pathological processes in several organs leading to high mortality and morbidity. Periodontitis, a common complication of diabetes, is an inflammatory condition of the soft tissue of the periodontium, causing alveolar bone loss. The accessibility of the oral cavity facilitates the study of early inflammatory processes. Changes in diet may reduce inflammation, controlling gingival inflammation as well as clinical treatment. Since 2004 Igelösa Life Science AB has developed a modified Nordic diet based on evidence, primarily from the Japanese island of Okinawa, where the world's oldest and most healthy people live. In this study we will investigate the association between Igelösa dietary intake and measurements of inflammation in 30 overweight individuals with or without other systemic diseases.
The investigators hypothesize that subjects undergoing liver resection and who are exposed preoperatively to high illuminance blue spectrum light will exhibit reduced organ injury, specifically liver dysfunction, than subjects exposed to standard ambient white fluorescent light.
This prospective, non-therapeutic study will determine whether a novel imaging technique can identify presumptive tumour associated macrophages (TAMs) in patients with ocular tumours. The investigators will evaluate 5 groups: 1. Choroidal nevus 2. Choroidal indeterminate melanocytic lesion 3. Choroidal melanoma 4. Suspected metastatic tumour (ie, primary tumour elsewhere) 5. Locally treated ocular tumours
Acutely resistance exercise induces inflammatory responses and leukocytosis arising of oxidative stress, that clinically manifested by pain and/or delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Beginners in resistance exercise programs are more vulnerable to the effects of oxidative stress as they exhibit lower antioxidant capacity, greater lipid peroxidation and present increased perception of pain after exercises that may lead to abandonment the exercises practice. Vitamins C and E are exogenous antioxidants which are able to prevent damages caused by oxidative stress. Cryotherapy decreases temperature and reduced generation of reactive oxygen species. The aim of the present research are to investigate the effects of the concomitant of vitamins and of cryotherapy on leukocytosis, inflammatory markers, oxidative stress parameters and pain in untrained individuals submitted to a resistance exercise session.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease with metabolic alterations due mainly by the liberation of catabolic cytokines leading to changes in body composition as rheumatoid cachexia. Dynamic exercise (DE) has demonstrated to improve muscular, strength and joint function as well as inflammatory process. Also, a diet focused on the consumption of certain fatty acids like the Mediterranean is recommended to reduce inflammation. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of a dynamic exercise program in combination with a Mediterranean diet in strength, joint mobility and disease activity in women with RA.
Systematic medical chart and imaging files review of patients presenting with non-lymphoma, non-thyroid-related orbital inflammation. The review aims at comparing the frequency of MRI infra-orbital nerve enlargement, between patients diagnosed with an IgG4-related ophthalmic disease (IgG4-ROD) and other patients.
This study evaluates the use of Colchicine in adults over 40 years of age who have suffered an ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack NOT caused by cardiac embolism or other defined causes. Patients will be randomised to 0.5 mg/day of Colchicine plus usual care, or to usual care alone. To investigate the efficacy of low dose colchicine (0.5mg/day) plus usual care (defined as antiplatelet, lipid-lowering, antihypertensive treatment, and appropriate lifestyle advice) compared with usual care alone to prevent non-fatal recurrent ischaemic stroke, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, hospitalization for unstable angina and vascular death after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) not caused by cardiac embolism or other defined causes unrelated to atherosclerosis
Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy (TTC), also known as "Broken Heart Syndrome", is a disorder of the heart that occurs most commonly in women (although it occasionally occurs in men) and is usually related to a stressful event. Symptoms are often similar to a heart attack, and include chest pain and shortness of breath. Although Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy is not a new medical condition, it has not been widely recognised until the last decade. Currently the investigators don't have an exact understanding of how or why the heart is affected in this way, and so the investigators are conducting a study to help understand what causes Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy.
The purpose is to study the correlation between systemic inflammation (serum levels of CRP, IL-1beta, IL-6 and TNF-alpha) or hyperhomocysteinemia and the increase of mortality, in a representative cohort of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Secondary purposes are: 1. To confirm the increase of cardiovascular mortality and the importance of cardiovascular morbidity in patients with COPD, 2. To establish the role of various genetic polymorphisms in the correlation between systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disorders observed in COPD, 3. To search for acceleration of aging of cardiovascular system evaluated with carotid intima-media thickness when systemic inflammation markers are increased, 4. To study the correlation between COPD risk factors (tobacco and other food factors), change of respiratory functional data and cardiovascular morbi-mortality. In this study cardiovascular morbi-mortality is defined by following disorders: ischemic cardiopathy, left-sided heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia and cerebrovascular accident. Diagnosis is confirmed with standard techniques and independently of this study. Results of clinical examination, ECG, echocardiography and /or brain scanner will be collected.
An observational study designed to compare colonic cytokine concentrations in lean versus obese individuals