DOI: 10.1055/s-00000025

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Issue 02 · Volume 41 · February 2009 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-15475

Editorial

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Schwarz, P. E. H.; Bornstein, S. R.; Hanefeld, M.: The Future of the Metabolic Syndrome

Review

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Onyegbutulem, H. C.; H-Onyegbutulem, P. I.; Reimann, M.; Li, J.; Bornstein, S. R.; Schwarz, P. E.: Metabolic Syndrome in Africa: An Emerging Perspective
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Schwarz, P. E. H.; Li, J.; Lindstrom, J.; Tuomilehto, J.: Tools for Predicting the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Daily Practice
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Roman, G.; Hancu, N.: Early Insulin Treatment to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Prediabetes and Overt Diabetes
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Forst, T.; Hohberg, C.; Pfützner, A.: Cardiovascular Effects of Disturbed Insulin Activity in Metabolic Syndrome and in Type 2 Diabetic Patients
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Muller, G.; Morawietz, H.: NAD(P)H Oxidase and Endothelial Dysfunction
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Schinner, S.: Wnt-signalling and the Metabolic Syndrome

Original

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Schutte, A. E.; Schutte, R.; Huisman, H. W.; Rooyen, J. M. van; Malan, L.; Olckers, A.; Malan, N. T.: Classifying Africans with the Metabolic Syndrome
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Li, J.; Bergmann, A.; Reimann, M.; Bornstein, S. R.; Schwarz, P. E. H.: A More Simplified Finnish Diabetes Risk Score for Opportunistic Screening of Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes in a German Population with a Family History of the Metabolic Syndrome
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Pistrosch, F.; Schaper, F.; Passauer, J.; Koehler, C.; Bornstein, S. R.; Hanefeld, M.: Effects of the Alpha Glucosidase Inhibitor Acarbose on Endothelial Function after a Mixed Meal in Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes
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Bibra, H. von; Siegmund, T.; Ceriello, A.; Volozhyna, M.; Schumm-Draeger, P.-M.: Optimized Postprandial Glucose Control is Associated with Improved Cardiac/Vascular Function – Comparison of Three Insulin Regimens in Well-controlled Type 2 Diabetes
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Hanefeld, M.; Schaper, F.; Koehler, C.; Bergmann, S.; Ugocsai, P.; Stelzer, J.; Schmitz, G.: Effect of Acarbose on Postmeal Mononuclear Blood Cell Response in Patients with Early Type 2 Diabetes: The AI(I)DA Study
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Kohnert, K.-D.; Vogt, L.; Augstein, P.; Heinke, P.; Zander, E.; Peterson, K.; Freyse, E.-J.; Salzsieder, E.: Relationships between Glucose Variability and Conventional Measures of Glycemic Control in Continuously Monitored Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
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Andreev, V. P.; Paz-Filho, G.; Wong, M.-L.; Licinio, J.: Deconvolution of Insulin Secretion, Insulin Hepatic Extraction Post-hepatic Delivery Rates and Sensitivity during 24-hour Standardized Meals: Time Course of Glucose Homeostasis in Leptin Replacement Treatment

Short Communication

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Paz-Filho, G. J.; Andrews, D.; Esposito, K.; Erol, H. K.; Delibasi, T.; Wong, M.-L.; Licinio, J.: Effects of Leptin Replacement on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Genetically Leptin-deficient Subjects
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Rothe, U.; Müller, G.; Tselmin, S.; Odenbach, C.; Scheuch, K.; Koch, R.; Bergmann, S.; Walter, M.; Bergmann, A.; Bornstein, S. R.; Schwarz, P. E. H.: Prevalence for the Cluster of Risk Factors of the Metabolic Vascular Syndrome in a Working Population in Germany