Gustavo Ayares il 03/04/2025

MetALD: New Perspectives on an Old Overlooked Disease

Liver Int. 2025 May;45(5):e70017. doi: 10.1111/liv.70017.ABSTRACTMetabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) are the major contributors to the liver disease burden globally. The rise in these conditions is linked to obesity, type 2 diab

Milenko Grimoldi il 03/04/2025

Nutritional Deficiencies in Bariatric Surgery: A Guide for General Practitioners

Rev Med Chil. 2024 Dec;152(12):1241-1248. doi: 10.4067/s0034-98872024001201241.ABSTRACTObesity is a pandemic that affects nearly a third of the world's population, and its medical treatment has not achieved satisfactory or sustained results over time. Its counterpart, bariatric surgery (BS), has see

Zhijuan Zheng il 03/04/2025

Systemic Immune Inflammation Index (SII) and Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) Associated with Prolonged Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Stay in Patients with Pneumonia Complicated with Respiratory Failure

Int J Gen Med. 2025 Mar 29;18:1765-1776. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S510659. eCollection 2025.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay is an important index reflects the prognosis of severe pneumonia (SP) combined with respiratory failure (RF). Blood transfusion can alleviate tissue h

Rucha Wagh il 02/04/2025

Parent-of-origin effects in the life-course evolution of cardiometabolic traits

Diabetologia. 2025 Apr 2. doi: 10.1007/s00125-025-06396-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Cardiometabolic traits are heritable, and some display parent-of-origin effects, which indicates preferential inheritance from one parent or parental bias. Most studies of these phenomena have f

Shunsuke Yamane il 02/04/2025

Physiology and clinical applications of GIP

Endocr J. 2025 Apr 3. doi: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ25-0087. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGlucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) is secreted by enteroendocrine K cells, primarily located in the upper small intestine, in response to food intake and plays a significant role in the postprandial r