Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aim: Apelin, as an adipokine, is encoded by the APLN gene. It is a key regulator in glucose and lipid metabolism and plays an important role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. It seems that habitual dietary intake of carbohydrates including quality and quantity by chronic manipulating insulin concentration might have a distinguishing role in the prediction of apelin gene expression in adipose tissue, but there is no evidence in this r...

BackgroundTo examine the secular trends of dietary food groups and diet quality among adults, overall and by sex, education, and occupation status.MethodsThis study was conducted within the framework of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS). Demographic and anthropometric measurements were gathered using standard questionnaires. In terms of socioeconomic information, participants were divided into two gro...

Background: By focusing on nutrition transition in the Middle East and North Africa, this study aim to investigate the general structure and secular trend of dietary patterns extracted from the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS) and adherence to these dietary patterns among Iranian population from 2006 till 2017.Methods: We investigated on four examination surveys of TLGS including survey 1 (2006–2008), survey 2 (2009–2011), survey 3 (2012...