Treatment of periodontal disease for glycaemic control in people with diabetes mellitus

TC Simpson, JC Weldon… - Cochrane Database …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Glycaemic control is a key issue in the care of people with diabetes mellitus
(DM). Periodontal disease is the inflammation and destruction of the underlying supporting …

Treatment of periodontal disease for glycaemic control in people with diabetes

TC Simpson, I Needleman, SH Wild… - Cochrane Database …, 2010 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Glycaemic control is a key issue in the care of people with diabetes mellitus
(DM). Some studies have suggested a bidirectional relationship between glycaemic control …

Risk factors for diabetes and coronary heart disease

SH Wild, CD Byrne - Bmj, 2006 - bmj.com
Many cross sectional and prospective studies have confirmed the association between
obesity and type 2 diabetes. Most people with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese …

IDF Diabetes Atlas: Global, regional and country-level diabetes prevalence estimates for 2021 and projections for 2045

H Sun, P Saeedi, S Karuranga, M Pinkepank… - Diabetes research and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aims To provide global, regional, and country-level estimates of diabetes prevalence and
health expenditures for 2021 and projections for 2045. Methods A total of 219 data sources …

Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

R Do, CJ Willer, EM Schmidt, S Sengupta, C Gao… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Triglycerides are transported in plasma by specific triglyceride-rich lipoproteins; in
epidemiological studies, increased triglyceride levels correlate with higher risk for coronary …

New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

A Köttgen, C Pattaro, CA Böger, C Fuchsberger… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant public health problem, and recent genetic
studies have identified common CKD susceptibility variants. The CKDGen consortium …

Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

RA Scott, V Lagou, RP Welch, E Wheeler… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Through genome-wide association meta-analyses of up to 133,010 individuals of European
ancestry without diabetes, including individuals newly genotyped using the Metabochip, we …

SLC2A9 is a newly identified urate transporter influencing serum urate concentration, urate excretion and gout

V Vitart, I Rudan, C Hayward, NK Gray, J Floyd… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism in humans and great apes, which have lost
hepatic uricase activity, leading to uniquely high serum uric acid concentrations (200–500 …

[PDF][PDF] Runs of homozygosity in European populations

R McQuillan, AL Leutenegger, R Abdel-Rahman… - The American Journal of …, 2008 - cell.com
Estimating individual genome-wide autozygosity is important both in the identification of
recessive disease variants via homozygosity mapping and in the investigation of the effects …

Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

JZ Liu, F Tozzi, DM Waterworth, SG Pillai, P Muglia… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Smoking is a leading global cause of disease and mortality. We established the Oxford-
GlaxoSmithKline study (Ox-GSK) to perform a genome-wide meta-analysis of SNP …