Habitual fish intake and clinically silent carotid atherosclerosis

Background: Fish consumption is recommended as part of a healthy diet. However, there is a paucity of data concerning the relation between fish consumption and carotid atherosclerosis. We investigated the association between habitual fish consumption and asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis, defined as the presence of plaques and/or increased intima-media thickness (≥ 0.90 mm), in non-diabetic participants. Methods: Nine hundred-sixty-one (range of age: 18–89 yrs; 37.1% males) adult participants without clinically known atherosclerotic disease were randomly recruited among the customers of a shopping mall in Palermo, Italy, and cross-sectionally investigated. Each participant answered a foo…

BIOELECTRICAL PHASE ANGLE ON HOSPITAL ADMISSION AS PREDICTOR OF SHORT- AND MIDDLE-TERM MORTALITY IN ELDERLY MEDICAL PATIENTS.

INDIRECT CALORIMETRY DEMONSTRATES THAT RESTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE IS INCREASED IN PATIENTS WITH POORLY CONTROLLED DIABETES AND IS NORMALIZED BY INSULIN BOLUS

THE BIA VECTOR IN OBESITY AND DIABETES

Although the assessment of body water compartments is of great diagnostic value, appropriate methods are not readily available for routinely clinical application. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a safe, noninvasive, rapid and highly reproducible procedure that is strongly influenced by body water and intra-/extracellular distribution. Four-hundred-fifty-six adults (224 males and 232 females) were enrolled and divided in subgroups on the basis of the presence of obesity and diabetes (type 1 and type 2). The aim of the study was to investigate if different BIA measurements in terms of resistance (R), reactance (Xc) and phase angle (PA) were associated to these conditions. Plotting t…