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<p>We introduce the operational genomic unit (OGU) method, a metagenome analysis strategy that directly exploits sequence alignment hits to individual reference genomes as the minimum unit for assessing the diversity of ...

<p><br></p><p>Background: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its ...

Satunnaistetussa STRIP-tutkimuksessa 562 tervettä lasta sai tyydyttyneen rasvan saannin vähentämiseen tähtäävää ravitsemusneuvontaa kahdeksan kuukauden iästä alkaen 20 vuoden ikään asti, ja 545 saman ikäistä lasta seurattiin ...

<p>Background <br></p><p>Observational findings for high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-mediated cholesterol efflux capacity (HDL-CEC) and coronary heart disease (CHD) appear inconsistent, and knowledge of the genetic architecture ...

<p><br></p><p>Education and risky health behaviors are strongly negatively correlated. Education may affect health behaviors by enabling healthier choices through higher disposable income, increasing information about the ...

<div>Background: Whether long-term exposure to overweight or obesity from early life to adulthood has a detrimental influence on health outcomes is unknown. We aimed to investigate whether duration of overweight or obesity ...

<p>Nuorten urheilijoiden COVID-19-infektiot ovat pääosin olleet lieväoireisia tai oireettomia. SARS-CoV-2-virus ei ole erityisen sydänhakuinen, mutta vaikeissa, sairaalahoitoa vaatineissa tilanteissa sydänlihaksen tai ...

Aims To investigate the association between overweight/obesity and fatty liver index (FLI) on the odds of incident prediabetes/type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in 2020 participants after 10 ...

<p>Infective endocarditis (IE) is associated with high mortality. However, data on factors associated with length of stay (LOS) in hospital due to IE are scarce. In addition, long-term mortality of more than 1 year is ...

<p><strong>Background </strong><br>Obesity in childhood is associated with metabolic dysfunction, adverse subclinical cardiovascular phenotypes and adult cardiovascular disease. Longitudinal studies of youth with obesity investigating changes in severity of obesity with metabolomic profiles are sparse. We investigated associations between (i) baseline body mass index (BMI) and follow-up metabolomic profiles; (ii) change in BMI with follow-up metabolomic profiles; and (iii) change in BMI with change in metabolomic profiles (mean interval 5.5 years). <br></p><p><strong>Methods </strong><br>Participants (n = 98, 52% males) were recruited from the Childhood Overweight Biorepository of Australia study. At baseline and follow-up, BMI and the % >95th BMI-centile (percentage above the age-, and sex-specific 95th BMI-centile) indicate severity of obesity, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy profiling of 72 metabolites/ratios, log-transformed and scaled to standard deviations (SD), was performed in fasting serum. Fully adjusted linear regression analyses were performed.<br></p><p><strong>Results </strong><br>Mean (SD) age and % >95th BMI-centile were 10.3 (SD 3.5) years and 134.6% (19.0) at baseline, 15.8 (3.7) years and 130.7% (26.2) at follow-up. Change in BMI over time, but not baseline BMI, was associated with metabolites at follow-up. Each unit (kg/m²) decrease in sex- and age-adjusted BMI was associated with change (SD; 95% CI; p value) in metabolites of: alanine (-0.07; -0.11 to -0.04; p < 0.001), phenylalanine (-0.07; -0.10 to -0.04; p < 0.001), tyrosine (-0.07; -0.10 to -0.04; p < 0.001), glycoprotein acetyls (-0.06; -0.09 to -0.04; p < 0.001), degree of fatty acid unsaturation (0.06; 0.02 to 0.10; p = 0.003), monounsaturated fatty acids (-0.04; -0.07 to -0.01; p = 0.004), ratio of ApoB/ApoA1 (-0.05; -0.07 to -0.02; p = 0.001), VLDL-cholesterol (-0.04; -0.06 to -0.01; p = 0.01), HDL cholesterol (0.05; 0.08 to 0.1; p = 0.01), pyruvate (-0.08; -0.11 to -0.04; p < 0.001), acetoacetate (0.07; 0.02 to 0.11; p = 0.005) and 3-hydroxybuturate (0.07; 0.02 to 0.11; p = 0.01). Results using the % >95th BMI-centile were largely consistent with age- and sex-adjusted BMI measures.<br></p><p><strong>Conclusions </strong><br>In children and young adults with obesity, decreasing the severity of obesity was associated with changes in metabolomic profiles consistent with lower cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk in adults.</p>...