... healthy volunteers (44 female) were studied after fasting and after ingestion of 75 g of glucose. FMD, fasting ATBF and the responsiveness of ATBF to glucose were all negatively related to BMI (body mass index), confirming the adverse cardiovascular effects of adiposity. FMD was related to fasting ATBF...

... (familial combined hyperlipidaemia). In 194 young adults (<25 years of age) recruited from families with FCH, we investigated how plasma lipids, (apo)lipoproteins and BMI (body mass index) varied with age. Furthermore, we performed a 5-year follow-up study of clinical and biochemical characteristics...

... by a trained investigator as described previously [ 22 ]. BMI (body mass index) was calculated by dividing the weight (in kg) by the height (in m 2 ). The waist-to-hip ratio was calculated as a measure of body fat distribution. Fat-free mass was measured using a four-terminal bioimpedance analyser (RJL...

... 2001 12 1 2001 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society © 2001 2001 blood pressure body mass index cholesterol hair loss height weight 401Clinical Science (2001) 100, 401 404 (Printed in Great Britain) Male pattern baldness is not associated with established...

.... Patients with hypertension had significantly elevated levels of circulating leptin (12.8 ng/l, compared with 4.1 ng/l in the controls; P < 0.001), and this was also the case when adjusted for body mass index (BMI) [0.435 and 0.167 ng/l per unit BMI (kg/m 2 ) respectively; P < 0.001]. Circulating...

...-predominant patients with irritable bowel syndrome and of controls displayed a significant positive correlation with their small bowel transit times ( r = 0.34, 0.31 and 0.39 respectively; P < 0.05) and body mass indexes also demonstrated a positive correlation ( r = 0.31, 0.41 and 0.30 respectively; P...

... reportedly increases with the degree of obesity. Leptin receptors are expressed in various tissues, and recent in vitro studies suggest a role for leptin in haematopoiesis. 2. The present study was designed to clarify the relationship between serum leptin and body mass index, peripheral blood cell counts...

...Lucinda K. M. Summers; Jaswinder S. Samra; Sandy M. Humphreys; Richard J. Morris; Keith N. Frayn 1. We assessed the variation in subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue blood flow within and between subjects and investigated whether it is correlated with body mass index. 2. We measured body mass...