Endocrine Abstracts

We recently observed that serum interleukin-18 and tumour necrosis factor alpha concentrations are positively associated with obesity and increased serum triglyceride concentration in man.The objective of this study was to find out if these cytokines were associated with hyperglyceamia,hyperlipidaemia,hypertension and hyperurcaemia in an adult population.The study population consisted of 570 apparently healthy adults aged 15 years and over.Systolic and diastolic blood pressure...

Recently,we reported that obesity is an independent risk factor for lipid peroxidation in man and hypothesised that cytokines might play a part in this.The objective of this study was to find out if the serum concentrations of interleukin-18 and tumour necrosis factor alpha were associated with body mass index and plama malondialdehyde concentration in healthy adults.The study population consisted of 570 adults aged 15 years and older.We determined their body weights and heigh...