Regular alcohol consumption improves insulin resistance in healthy Japanese men independent of obesity

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 382, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 71-76

  Fueki, Yuriko ^a   Miida, Takashi ^a   Wardaningsih, Elfi ^a   Ito, Masayuki ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Takahashi, Akihiro ^a   Hanyu, Osamu ^a   Tsuda, Akiko ^b   Saito, Hisashi ^b   Hama, Hitoshi ^b   Okada, Masahiko ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Kido Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; HDL cholesterol; HOMA IR; Metabolic syndrome; Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; JAPANESE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; ETHANOL; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY;

EID: 34249294550     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2007.03.027     Document Type: Article

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