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Nutrition & metabolism

Section edited by Laura Soldati

This section aims to provide a platform for the interaction and mutual validation between basic and applied research in the field of nutrition. In the area of Translational Medicine, we believe that the field ought to be taken into greater account in order to generate advanced applications for diagnosis and therapy and, at the same time, to develop new instruments of investigation.

Studies on all aspects of nutrition and metabolism with applications in medicine and biotechnology will be considered for publication. The section not only welcomes contributions that employ traditional clinical, metabolic and epidemiologic methods, but is also interested in molecular and cell biology applied to human and animal nutrition.

Featured articles

Hericium erinaceus mycelium and its isolated erinacine A protection from MPTP-induced neurotoxicity through the ER stress, triggering an apoptosis cascade
Hsing-Chun Kuo, et al

Obesity and colorectal cancer: molecular features of adipose tissue
Javier Martinez-Useros and Jesus Garcia-Foncillas



Role of a polyphenol-enriched preparation on chemoprevention of mammary carcinoma through cancer stem cells and inflammatory pathways modulation
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  1. Higher vitamin D concentrations and grip strength contribute to lower individual-level risk of dementia, while apolipoprotein 4 (APOE e4) genotype carries increases dementia risk, but whether combination of id...

    Authors: Jiangtao Feng, Qi Wang and Yuan Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:355
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  2. Central precocious puberty (CPP) is a common disease in prepubertal children and results mainly from disorders in the endocrine system. Emerging evidence has highlighted the involvement of gut microbes in horm...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Huang, Jixiong Chen, Haozhe Zou, Peng Huang, Hailing Luo, Haidan Li, Yuhua Cai, Li Liu, Yongsheng Li, Xiaojie He and Wei Xiang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:316
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  3. Alcoholism is a widespread and damaging behaviour of people throughout the world. Long-term alcohol consumption has resulted in alcoholic liver disease (ALD) being the leading cause of chronic liver disease. M...

    Authors: Chuyun Yan, Wanting Hu, Jinqi Tu, Jinyao Li, Qionglin Liang and Shuxin Han
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:300
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  4. Micronutrients have been associated with disease severity and poorer clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19. However, there is a paucity of studies examining if the relationship with micronutrient status ...

    Authors: Josh McGovern, John Wadsworth, Anthony Catchpole, Conor Richards, Donald C. McMillan, Tadhg Kelliher, Emma Goodall, Ellie Murray, Terry Melaugh, Shannon McPhillips, Kathryn Brice, Katie Barbour, Sophie Robinson, Peter Moffitt, Olivia Kemp, Dinesh Talwar…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:284
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  5. There are inconsistent results of cohort studies analyzing the association between fish intake and mortality.

    Authors: Jian Zhou, Xiankui Tan, Yihan Li, Rongjun Wan, Ziyi Wu, Zhengjun Lin, Wanchun Wang, Yingquan Luo and Tang Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:280
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  6. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a serious public health issue globally, currently, the treatment of NAFLD lies still in the labyrinth. In the inchoate stage, the combinatorial application of food ...

    Authors: Ki-Kwang Oh, Sang-Jun Yoon, Su-Been Lee, Sang Youn Lee, Haripriya Gupta, Raja Ganesan, Satya Priya Sharma, Sung-Min Won, Jin-Ju Jeong, Dong Joon Kim and Ki-Tae Suk
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:263
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  7. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), one of the main types of Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by dysfunctional pancreatic β-cells and/or peripheral insulin resista...

    Authors: Duygu Ağagündüz, Mehmet Arif Icer, Ozge Yesildemir, Tevfik Koçak, Emine Kocyigit and Raffaele Capasso
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:240
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  8. The impact of integrated lifestyles on health has attracted a lot of attention. It remains unclear whether adherence to low-risk healthy lifestyle factors is protective in individuals with metabolic syndrome a...

    Authors: Mengying Niu, Jiahao Chen, Rongyao Hou, Yu Sun, Qi Xiao, Xudong Pan and Xiaoyan Zhu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:239
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  9. To examine the hypothesis that obesity complicated by the metabolic syndrome, compared to uncomplicated obesity, has distinct molecular signatures and metabolic pathways.

    Authors: Fayaz Ahmad Mir, Raghvendra Mall, Ehsan Ullah, Ahmad Iskandarani, Farhan Cyprian, Tareq A. Samra, Meis Alkasem, Ibrahem Abdalhakam, Faisal Farooq, Shahrad Taheri and Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:229
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  10. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a main cause of chronic renal failure. Despite decades of extensive study, the molecular mechanisms underlying diabetic tubulointerstitial injury remain unclear. We aim to identify...

    Authors: Jialu Liu, Guangzhong Duan, Wenxia Yang, Shumin Zhang, Fuyou Liu, Youming Peng, Lin Sun, Yu Liu and Li Xiao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:228
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  11. The impact of metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) on kidney dysfunction remains debatable. Moreover, few studies have focused on the early stages of kidney dysfunction indicated by hyperfiltration and mildly r...

    Authors: Hong Zhang, Rui Chen, Xiaohong Xu, Minxing Yang, Wenrong Xu, Shoukui Xiang, Long Wang, Xiaohong Jiang, Fei Hua and Xiaolin Huang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:216
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  12. Increased circulating uric acid (UA) concentration may disrupt cardiac function in heart failure patients, but the specific mechanism remains unclear. Here, we postulate that hyperuremia induces sterol regulat...

    Authors: Bowen Lou, Haoyu Wu, Hannes Ott, Katrin Bennewitz, Chen Wang, Gernot Poschet, Hui Liu, Zuyi Yuan, Jens Kroll and Jianqing She
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:199
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  13. Body mass index (BMI) and lipid parameters are the most commonly used anthropometric parameters and biomarkers for assessing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) risk. This study aimed to assess and quanti...

    Authors: Song Lu, Qiyang Xie, Maobin Kuang, Chong Hu, Xinghui Li, Huijian Yang, Guotai Sheng, Guobo Xie and Yang Zou
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:192
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  14. Despite the many signs of progress in pharmacotherapies, metabolic syndrome (MetS) is one of the main public-health burdens worldwide. Our study aimed to compare the effect of breastfeeding (BF) in women with ...

    Authors: Maryam Farahmand, Maryam Rahmati, Fereidoun Azizi and Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:177
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  15. Previous studies have reported that high fasting plasma glucose (FPG), even that within the normal range, is associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Nevertheless, these findings are limited to speci...

    Authors: Linfeng He, Wenbin Zheng, Zeyu Li, Lu Chen, Wen Kong and Tianshu Zeng
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:175
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  16. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a critical healthcare challenge and priority in Qatar which is listed amongst the top 10 countries in the world, with its prevalence presently at 17% double the global average. MicroRN...

    Authors: Sahar I. Da’as, Ikhlak Ahmed, Waseem H. Hasan, Doua A. Abdelrahman, Elbay Aliyev, Sabah Nisar, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat, Mugdha V. Joglekar, Anandwardhan A. Hardikar, Khalid A. Fakhro and Ammira S. Al-Shabeeb Akil
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:171
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  17. The relationship between muscle and prognosis, especially that between muscle distribution across different body parts, and the related prognosis is not well established.

    Authors: Chen-An Liu, Tong Liu, Yi-Zhong Ge, Meng-Meng Song, Guo-Tian Ruan, Shi-Qi Lin, Hai-Lun Xie, Jin-Yu Shi, Xin Zheng, Yue Chen, Liuyi Shen, Li Deng and Han-Ping Shi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:154
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  19. Studies focusing on the relationships of adiposity and body shape indices with reproductive factors have reported conflicting results. This study aimed to investigate the influence of reproductive factors on a...

    Authors: Mina Amiri, Maryam Mousavi, Fereidoun Azizi and Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:137
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  21. Obesity is accompanied by hormonal, inflammatory and endothelial alterations. These alterations induce a stimulation of several other mechanisms that contribute to the hypertensive state and to increase the ca...

    Authors: Luigi Barrea, Ludovica Verde, Pasquale Santangeli, Stefania Lucà, Annamaria Docimo, Silvia Savastano, Annamaria Colao and Giovanna Muscogiuri
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:128
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  22. Computed tomographies (CT) are useful for identifying muscle loss in non-small lung cancer (NSCLC) cachectic patients. However, we lack consensus on the best cutoff point for pectoralis muscle loss. We aimed t...

    Authors: Sarah Santiloni Cury, Diogo de Moraes, Jakeline Santos Oliveira, Paula Paccielli Freire, Patricia Pintor dos Reis, Miguel Luiz Batista Jr, Érica Nishida Hasimoto and Robson Francisco Carvalho
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:116
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  23. Endometrial cancer (EC) is a common gynecological cancer that endangers women health. Although substantial progresses of EC management have been achieved in recent years, the incidence of EC still remains high...

    Authors: Pengzhu Huang, Xiangqin Fan, Hongfei Yu, Kaiwen Zhang, Huanrong Li, Yingmei Wang and Fengxia Xue
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:94
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  24. Observational studies have found that both short and long sleep duration are associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS). This study aimed to examine the associations of genetically determined ...

    Authors: Yannis Yan Liang, Jie Chen, Miaoguan Peng, Jiajin Zhou, Xinru Chen, Xiao Tan, Ningjian Wang, Huan Ma, Lan Guo, Jihui Zhang, Yun-Kwok Wing, Qingshan Geng and Sizhi Ai
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:90
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  25. Albumin is the most abundant protein in serum and serves as a transporter of free fatty acids (FFA) in blood vessels. In type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, the reduced serum albumin level is a risk fact...

    Authors: Hongyi Liu, Anji Ju, Xuan Dong, Zongrui Luo, Jiaze Tang, Boyuan Ma, Yan Fu and Yongzhang Luo
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:89
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  26. Little is known on the association of types of grains with mortality and the moderating effect of lifestyle on this association. This study aims to evaluate the single or joint associations of types of grains ...

    Authors: Yongjie Chen, Boran Sun, Caihong Wang, Keming Zhang, Wenli Lu and Guowei Huang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:88
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  27. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a complex disease involving the upregulation of many inflammation-related proteins. Alternative polyadenylation (APA), a crucial post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism, has been...

    Authors: Tingting Zhao, Dongdong Zhan, Shuang Qu, Song Jiang, Wenhua Gan, Weisong Qin, Chunxia Zheng, Fang Cheng, Yinghui Lu, Mingwei Liu, Jinsong Shi, Hongwei Liang, Yi Wang, Jun Qin, Ke Zen and Zhihong Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:86
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  28. Frailty, defined as physical performance impairment, is a common condition in older adults and can anticipate the development of sarcopenia, a geriatric syndrome characterized by loss of muscle strength and ma...

    Authors: Simone Agostini, Roberta Mancuso, Lorenzo Agostino Citterio, Gabriela Alexandra Mihali, Beatrice Arosio and Mario Clerici
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:67
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  29. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has evolved into a serious public health issue that demands the use of suitable methods to estimate the risk of the disease. As a result, in a sample of individuals who completed a...

    Authors: Dan Zhao, Hao Sun, Huamin Li, Chaoxiu Li and Bo Zhou
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:62
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  30. Genetic knowledge of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Chinese women is quite limited. This study aimed to identify the risk factors and mechanism of GDM at the genetic level in a Chinese population.

    Authors: Miao Zhang, Qing Li, Kai-Lin Wang, Yao Dong, Yu-Tong Mu, Yan-Min Cao, Jin Liu, Zi-Heng Li, Hui-Lu Cui, Hai-Yan Liu, An-Qun Hu and Ying-Jie Zheng
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:47
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  31. Different metabolic phenotypes may be related to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), but such association whether modified by serum uric acid levels is unknown. We examined the association between differ...

    Authors: Jun Zheng, Xuerui Li, Yuan Zhang, Yuyang Miao and Qiang Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:39
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  32. Very low-calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD) has shown to significantly reduce body weight and fat mass, as well as inflammation. These effects are supported by nutritional ketosis, which triggers the utilization o...

    Authors: Claudia Vetrani, Ludovica Verde, Silvia Savastano, Annamaria Colao, Giovanna Muscogiuri and Luigi Barrea
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:29
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  33. Nonobese metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is paradoxically associated with improved metabolic and pathological features at diagnosis but similar cardiovascular diseases (CVD) progno...

    Authors: Congxiang Shao, Lishu Xu, Pingguang Lei, Wei Wang, Shiting Feng, Junzhao Ye and Bihui Zhong
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:12
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  34. Astronauts undergo significant microgravity-induced bone loss during space missions, which has become one of the three major medical problems hindering human's long-term space flight. A risk-free and antiresor...

    Authors: Ranli Gu, Hao Liu, Menglong Hu, Yuan Zhu, Xuenan Liu, Feilong Wang, Likun Wu, Danyang Song and Yunsong Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:8
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  35. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is closely associated with Cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aim to examine the association of Life’s Essential 8 (LE8), the recently updated measurement of cardiovascul...

    Authors: Lili Wang, Jiayi Yi, Xinli Guo and Xiangpeng Ren
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:616
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  36. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) onset is a complex, organized biological process with multilevel regulation, and its physiopathological mechanisms are yet to be elucidated. This study aims to find out the key drivers an...

    Authors: Jiachen Liu, Shenghua Liu, Zhaomei Yu, Xiaorui Qiu, Rundong Jiang and Weizheng Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:604
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2023 21:207

  37. Renal anemia is caused by end-stage renal disease (ESRD) but has a complex etiology. The application of dietary fiber (DF) to regulate the gut microbiota has shown effective therapeutic effects in some disease...

    Authors: Yang Li, Min Han, Jia Song, Shijin Liu, Yongjun Wang, Xinhuan Su, Kai Wei, Zhen Xu, Hui Li and Zunsong Wang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:599
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  38. Microbiota and its metabolites are known to regulate host metabolism. In cross-sectional study conducted in postmenopausal women we aimed to assess whether the microbiota, its metabolites and gut barrier integ...

    Authors: Igor Łoniewski, Monika Szulińska, Mariusz Kaczmarczyk, Konrad Podsiadło, Daniel Styburski, Karolina Skonieczna-Żydecka and Paweł Bogdański
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:585
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  39. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a metabolic disorder with abnormal lipid metabolism. The present study was to identify regulatory genes related to lipid droplets (LDs) abnormal accumulation in NAFLD.

    Authors: Zhiyong He, Yangyang Bin, Guangshun Chen, Qiang Li, Wenling Fan, Yongqiang Ma, Junfang Yi, Xiaohua Luo, Zhi Tan and Jiequn Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:529
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  40. Identifying patterns of variation in obesity indices and other cardiometabolic risk factors before the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes could provide insight into the critical period when drastic changes occurred ...

    Authors: Fatemeh Koohi, Nooshin Ahmadi, Fereidoun Azizi, Davood Khalili and Majid Valizadeh
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:518
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  41. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is among the most important causes for chronic kidney disease. Anthocyanins (ANT) are polyphenolic compounds present in various food and play an important role in ameliorating hyp...

    Authors: Yi-Xi Li, Yong-Ping Lu, Donge Tang, Bo Hu, Ze-Yu Zhang, Hong-Wei Wu, Li-Jing Fan, Kai-Wen Cai, Chun Tang, Yi-Qing Zhang, Ling Hong, Jing-jing Dong, Bao-zhang Guan, Liang-Hong Yin, Yong Dai, Wei-bin Bai…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:510
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  42. Apparent mineralocorticoid excess is an autosomal recessive form of monogenic disease characterized by juvenile resistant low-renin hypertension, marked hypokalemic alkalosis, low aldosterone levels, and high ...

    Authors: Yi-ting Lu, Di Zhang, Qiong-yu Zhang, Ze-ming Zhou, Kun-qi Yang, Xian-liang Zhou and Fan Peng
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:500
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  43. This paper aimed to examine the effects of probiotics on eight factors in the prediabetic population by meta-analysis, namely, fasting blood glucose (FBG), glycated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), homeostatic model a...

    Authors: Ya Li, You Wu, Lili Wu, Lingling Qin and Tonghua Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:498
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  44. To explore the roles of Annexin A2 (ANXA2) on hepatocyte pyroptosis and hepatic fibrosis in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and underlying molecular mechanism.

    Authors: Yun Feng, Wenhua Li, Zhuoya Wang, Ruling Zhang, Yan Li, Lijuan Zang, Peiwen Wang, Zhenghong Li and Yuwei Dong
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:497
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  45. Obesity (waist circumference, body mass index (BMI)) and lifestyle factors (dietary habits, smoking, alcohol drinking, Sedentary behavior) have been associated with risk of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) i...

    Authors: Yong-Bo Wang, Lan Yang, Yu-Qing Deng, Si-Yu Yan, Li-Sha Luo, Ping Chen and Xian-Tao Zeng
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:495
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  46. Osteoporosis (OP) is a systemic bone disease characterized by the decreased bone mass and destruction of bone microstructure, which tends to result in the enhanced bone fragility and related fractures, as well...

    Authors: Yuan-Wei Zhang, Mu-Min Cao, Ying-Juan Li, Xiang-Xu Chen, Qian Yu and Yun-Feng Rui
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:490
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  47. Evidence about the relationship between triglyceride-to-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) ratio and prediabetes (Pre-DM) in Chinese non-obese people with a normal range of low-density lipoprotein...

    Authors: Liling Wu, Xiaodan Wu, Haofei Hu and Qijun Wan
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:484
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  48. Proteinuria is an unfavorable clinical condition highly associated with a risk of renal and cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, whether all proteinuria forms are linked to renal im...

    Authors: Chun Gan, Xindi Zhou, Dan Chen, Huan Chi, Jiawen Qiu, Hui You, Yaxi Chen, Mo Wang, Haiping Yang, Wei Jiang and Qiu Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:480
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  49. The combined association of triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and different systolic blood pressure (SBP) levels with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among the general population remains unclear.

    Authors: Yu Yu, Min Gu, Hao Huang, Sijing Cheng, Yu Deng, Chi Cai, Xuhua Chen, Hongxia Niu, Xiaohui Ning and Wei Hua
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:478
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  50. Nutritional assessment and quality of life (QOL) have become important indices for therapeutic efficacy in patients with malignancies. We aim to develop and validate an easy-to-use questionnaire with prognosti...

    Authors: Bingdong Zhang, Yuerui Li and Yongbing Chen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2022 20:477
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