Brain iron overload, insulin resistance, and cognitive performance in obese subjects: A preliminary MRI case-control study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3076-3083

  Blasco, Gerard ^a   Puig, Josep ^a   Daunis i Estadella, Josep ^b   Molina, Xavier ^a   Xifra, Gemma ^c   Fernández Aranda, Fernando ^d   Pedraza, Salvador ^a   Ricart, Wifredo ^c   Portero Otín, Manuel ^e   Fernández Real, José Manuel ^c  

^a GIRONA BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBGI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL JOSEP TRUETA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; IRON;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84910127339     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc14-0664     Document Type: Article

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