OBJECTIVE To examine the global prevalence and major risk factors for diabetic retinopathy
(DR) and vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (VTDR) among people with diabetes. …

Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been described as being pandemic, but serum 25-hydroxyvitamin
D [25(OH)D] distribution data for the European Union are of very variable quality…

Context The evidence that measurement of the common carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT)
improves the risk scores in prediction of the absolute risk of cardiovascular events is …

Background—Low heart rate variability (HRV) is associated with a higher risk of death in
patients with heart disease and in elderly subjects and with a higher incidence of coronary …

Objective: In small case-control studies, obesity was associated with worse vitamin D status.
Our aim was to assess the association of adiposity (anthropometric measures as well as …

OBJECTIVE—This meta-analysis was undertaken to obtain insight regarding the shape and
strength of the relationship between alcohol consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes, the …

Background— Different definitions of the metabolic syndrome have been proposed. Their
value in a clinical setting to assess cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is still unclear. We …

ContextPersons with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) are known to have an elevated risk
of developing diabetes mellitus. Less is known about diabetes risk among persons with …

… Therefore, obesity was defined as a body mass index above 27 kg/m 2 for men and above
26 kg/m 2 for women 17 ; a high waist-to-hip ratio as above 0.95 for men and above 0.80 for …

BACKGROUND In myocardial infarction patients, heart rate-adjusted QT interval (QTc), an
electrocardiographic indicator of sympathetic balance, is prognostic for survival. METHODS …