Browsing by Subject "Triglycerides"
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Copeptin relates to a fatty liver and measures of obesity in a South African population with mixed ethnicities
(Springer, 2019)Purpose Elevated copeptin, a vasopressin marker, is linked to metabolic disease, and obese rats with low-vasopressin concentration had a decreased risk of liver steatosis. We here investigated the association between ... -
HIV treatment is associated with a twofold higher probability of raised triglycerides: pooled analyses in 21 023 individuals in sub-Saharan Africa
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2018)Background Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) regimes for HIV are associated with raised levels of circulating triglycerides (TGs) in western populations. However, there are limited data on the impact of ART on cardiometabolic ... -
Triglyceride values after six months of lopinavir/ritonavir therapy as an indicator for pancreatitis risk
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas with varying aetiology. Hypertriglyceridaemia (HTG) is known to cause pancreatitis at triglyceride (TG) values of 11.3 mmol/L and beyond. The protease inhibitors (PIs) – ...