Maarten Rene Soeters

Maarten Rene Soeters
  • MD, PhD
  • Endocriologist at Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam
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  • Endocriologist
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March 2014 - present
Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam
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  • Endocriologist

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Restrictive anorexia nervosa (AN-R) is characterized not only by psychiatric manifestations but also by significant medical complications. Patients commonly exhibit immune alterations, potentially increasing their susceptibility to infections. While direct evidence linking AN-R to heightened rates of opportunistic infections remains inconclusive, c...
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Aims/hypothesis The aim of this work was to investigate the association between macronutrient intakes and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) metrics in individuals with type 1 diabetes. Methods In 470 individuals with type 1 diabetes of the GUTDM1 cohort (65% female, median age 40 [IQR 28–53] years, median diabetes duration 15 [IQR 6–29] years),...
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Background 3β-hydroxy-Δ5-C27-steroid-oxidoreductase (3β-HSD) deficiency is a bile acid synthesis disorder that leads to the absence of normal primary bile acids and the accumulation of abnormal bile acids. This results in cholestatic jaundice, fat-soluble vitamin deficiency, acholic or fatty stools and failure to thrive. Bile acid supplementation i...
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Background Bile acids play vital roles in control of lipid-, glucose-, and energy metabolism by activating Takeda G protein-coupled receptor 5 (TGR5) and Farnesoid X receptor (FXR), the latter promoting production of the endocrine-acting fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19). Short-term administration of single bile acids has been reported to enhance...
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Context/objective: In order to better understand which metabolic differences are related to insulin resistance in metabolic syndrome (MetSyn), we used hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic (HE) clamps in individuals with MetSyn and related peripheral insulin resistance to circulating biomarkers. Design/methods: In this cross-sectional study, HE-clamps wer...
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Ageing changes the impact of nutrition, whereby inflammation has been suggested to play a role in age-related disabilities such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to investigate differences in postprandial bile-acid response and its effect on energy metabolism between young and elderly people. Nine young, healthy men...
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Aims Gut microbiota have been linked to blood lipid levels and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The composition and abundance of gut microbiota trophic networks differ between ethnicities. We aim to evaluate the relationship between gut microbiotal trophic networks and CVD phenotypes. Methods and results We included cross-sectional data from 3860 i...
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Background Graves’ disease (GD) and Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) result from ongoing stimulation of the TSH receptor due to autoantibodies acting as persistent agonists. Orbital pre-adipocytes and fibroblasts also express the TSH receptor, resulting in expanded retro-orbital tissue and causing exophthalmos and limited eye movement. Recent studies have...
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Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare inherited disease characterized by sterol 27-hydroxylase (CYP27A1) deficiency and, thus, a lack of bile acid synthesis with a marked accumulation of 7α-hydroxylated bile acid precursors. In addition to their renowned lipid-emulgating role, bile acids have been shown to stimulate secretion of the glucos...
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Over the past decades the potential role of the gut microbiome and bile acids in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been revealed, with a special reference to low bacterial alpha diversity. Certain bile acid effects on gut bacteria concern cytotoxicity, or in the case of the microbiome, bacteriotoxicity. Reciprocally, the gut microbiome plays a ke...
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IntroductionThe gut microbiota influences and interacts with the host metabolism through effects on nutrient metabolism and digestion. Duodenal Mucosal Resurfacing (DMR) is a novel endoscopic procedure involving duodenal mucosal ablation by the use of hydrothermal energy. DMR, when combined with a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA),...
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Background: Generally, food intake occurs in a three-meal per 24 h fashion with in-between meal snacking. As such, most humans spend more than ∼ 12–16 h per day in the postprandial state. It may be reasoned from an evolutionary point of view, that the human body is physiologically habituated to less frequent meals. Metabolic flexibility (i.e., reci...
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Introduction: Duodenal Mucosal Resurfacing (DMR) is a new endoscopic ablation technique aimed at improving glycemia and metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). DMR appears to improve insulin resistance, which is the root cause of T2DM, but its mechanism of action is largely unknown. Bile acids function as intestinal sig...
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Metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is an important risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). This study aimed to find distinct plasma metabolite profiles between insulin-resistant and non-insulin resistant subjects with MetSyn and evaluate if MetSyn metabolite profiles are related to CVD risk and lipid fluxes. In a cross-sectional...
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Background and aims Patients with COVID-19 infection presents with a broad clinical spectrum of symptoms and complications. As a consequence nutritional requirements are not met, resulting in weight- and muscle loss, and malnutrition. The aim of the present study is to delineate nutritional complaints, the (course of the) nutritional status and ris...
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In evolution, genes survived that could code for metabolic pathways, promoting long term survival during famines or fasting when suffering from trauma, disease or during physiological growth. This requires utilization of substrates, already present in some form in the body. Carbohydrate stores are limited and to survive long, their utilization is r...
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Background and Aims Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR) is an endoscopic intervention in which the duodenal mucosa is ablated by hydrothermal energy. DMR improves glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), most likely by altered duodenal signaling leading to insulin sensitization. We studied whether we could discontinue insulin use in...
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In recent years, the human gut microbiome has been found to influence a multitude of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome, with its components type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. It is recognized to be mainly influenced by environmental factors, such as lifestyle, but also genetics may play a role. The i...
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Background & aims To investigate the acute effects of intravenous vs enteral meal administration on circulating bile acid and gut hormone responses. Methods In a randomized crossover design, we compared the effects of duodenal (via a nasoduodenal tube) vs parenteral (intravenous) administration over 180 minutes of identical mixed meals on circulat...
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Background: Bile acids are multifaceted metabolic compounds that signal to cholesterol, glucose, and lipid homeostasis via receptors like the Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) and transmembrane Takeda G protein-coupled receptor 5 (TGR5). The postprandial increase in plasma bile acid concentrations is therefore a potential metabolic signal. However, this...
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Objective: Insulin resistance develops prior to the onset of overt type 2 diabetes, making its early detection vital. Direct accurate evaluation is currently only possible with complex examinations like the stable isotope-based hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp (HIEC). Metabolomic profiling enables the detection of thousands of plasma metabolites,...
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Introduction: Cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) are a group of interrelated disorders such as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). As the prevalence of these diseases increases globally, efficient new strategies are necessary to target CMD and modifiable risk factors. In the past decade, evidence has accumula...
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The importance of the postprandial state has been acknowledged, since hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia are linked with several chronic systemic low-grade inflammation conditions. Humans spend more than 16 h per day in the postprandial state and the postprandial state is acknowledged as a complex interplay between nutrients, hormones and diet-derive...
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Intake of a high-fat meal induces a systemic inflammatory response in the postprandial which is augmented in obese subjects. However, the underlying mechanisms of this response have not been fully elucidated. We aimed to assess the effect of gut microbiota modulation on postprandial inflammatory response in lean and obese subjects. Ten lean and ten...
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Context: Bile acids, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) play an important role in postprandial metabolism. In this study, we investigated the postprandial bile acid response in plasma and its relation to insulin, GLP-1 and FGF19. Objective: First, we investigated the postprandial response to 40-hour fasting....
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Background: Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR) is an endoscopic intervention in which the duodenal mucosa is ablated by hydrothermal energy. DMR improves glycemic control in type 2 diabetes (T2D) through altered metabolic signaling from the duodenum causing insulin sensitization. We studied the feasibility of eliminating insulin therapy in T2D by c...
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Background: Patients with chronic intestinal failure (CIF) often develop cholestatic liver injury, which may lead to liver failure and need for organ transplantation. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether citrulline (CIT) and the enterokine fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) are associated with chronic cholestasis and sur...
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Background and aims: Placement of the duodenal-jejunal bypass liner (DJBL) leads to rapid weight loss and restoration of insulin sensitivity in a similar fashion to bariatric surgery. Increased systemic bile acid levels are candidate effectors for these effects through postprandial activation of their receptors TGR5 and FXR. We aimed to quantify p...
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Objective The nuclear receptor PPARγ is the master regulator of adipocyte differentiation, distribution, and function. In addition, PPARγ induces terminal differentiation of several epithelial cell lineages, including colon epithelia. Loss-of-function mutations in PPARG result in familial partial lipodystrophy subtype 3 (FPDL3), a rare condition ch...
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Bile acids fulfill a variety of metabolic functions including regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism. Since changes of bile acid metabolism accompany obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and bariatric surgery, there is great interest in their role in metabolic health. Here, we developed a mathematical model of systemic bile acid metabolism, and su...
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Bile acids can function in the postprandial state as circulating signaling molecules in the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism via the transmembrane receptor TGR5 and nuclear receptor FXR. Both receptors are present in the central nervous system, but their function in the brain is unclear. Therefore, we investigated the effects of intracere...
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Bile acids are best known as detergents involved in the digestion of lipids. In addition, new data in the last decade have shown that bile acids also function as gut hormones capable of influencing metabolic processes via receptors such as FXR (farnesoid X receptor) and TGR5 (Takeda G protein-coupled receptor 5). These effects of bile acids are not...
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Background: Induction of nonshivering thermogenesis can be used to influence energy balance to prevent or even treat obesity. The pungent component of mustard, allyl-isothiocyanate (AITC), activates the extreme cold receptor transient receptor potential channel, subfamily A, member 1 and may thus induce energy expenditure and metabolic changes. Obj...
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Desynchronization between the master clock in the brain, which is entrained by (day) light, and peripheral organ clocks, which are mainly entrained by food intake, may have negative effects on energy metabolism. Bile acid metabolism follows a clear day/night rhythm. We investigated whether in rats on a normal chow diet the daily rhythm of plasma bi...
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Background & aims Bile acids (BAs) play a key role in lipid uptake and metabolic signalling in different organs including gut, liver, muscle and brown adipose tissue. Portal and peripheral plasma BA concentrations increase after a meal. However, the exact kinetics of postprandial BA metabolism have never been described in great detail. We used a co...
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Background: Insulin resistance after surgery hampers recovery. Oxidative stress is shown to be involved in the occurrence of postoperative insulin resistance. Preoperative carbohydrate-rich oral nutrition supplements reduce but do not prevent insulin resistance. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a carbohydrate-, glutami...
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Bile acids are established signaling molecules next to their role in the intestinal emulsification and uptake of lipids. We here aimed to identify a potential interaction between bile acids and CD4⁺ Th cells, which are central in adaptive immune responses. We screened distinct bile acid species for their potency to affect T cell function. Primary h...
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A recent study in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients using electrical vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) to activate the inflammatory reflex has shown promising effects on disease activity. Innervation by the autonomic nerve system might be involved in the regulation of many endocrine and metabolic processes and could therefore theoretically lead to unw...
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PurposeIntravenous glucocorticoids (ivGCs) given as 12-weekly infusions are the first-line treatment for moderate-to-severe and active Graves’ orbitopathy (GO), but they are not always effective. In this study, we evaluated whether response at 6 weeks correlated with outcomes at 12 (end of intervention) and 24 (follow-up) weeks, particularly in pat...
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Background & aims: Bile acids (BA) are pleiotropic hormones affecting glucose and lipid metabolism. The physiochemical properties of different BA species affect their enterohepatic dynamics and their affinity for bile acid receptors. The BA pool composition is altered in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity. In this study we used a 2-week ver...
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The bile acid receptor TGR5 (also known as GPBAR1) is a promising target for the development of pharmacological interventions in metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. TGR5 is expressed in many metabolically active tissues, but complex enterohepatic bile acid cycling limits the exposure of some of...
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Acylcarnitines, fatty acid oxidation (FAO) intermediates, have been implicated in diet-induced insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus, as increased levels are found in obese insulin resistant humans. Moreover plasma acylcarnitines have been associated with clinical parameters related to glucose metabolism, such as fasting glucose levels an...
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Context: Bile acids regulate lipid and carbohydrate metabolism by interaction with membrane or intracellular proteins including the nuclear farnesoid X receptor (FXR). Postprandial activation of ileal FXR leads to secretion of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF-19), a gut hormone that may be implicated in postprandial glucose metabolism. Objective:...
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Objectives: Knowledge of factors contributing to variation in drug metabolism is of vital importance to optimize drug treatment. This study assesses the effects of a short-term hypercaloric high fat diet on metabolism of five oral drugs, which are each specific for a single P450 isoform: midazolam (CYP3A4), omeprazole (CYP2C19), metoprolol (CYP2D6...
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Aim Elevated basal endogenous glucose production (EGP), impaired suppression of EGP by insulin and reduced insulin-stimulated glucose disposal are cornerstones of the pathogenesis of hyperglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes. We aimed to determine the contribution of these processes to impaired fasting glucose (IFG) levels in obese non-diabeti...
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Aim: Acylcarnitines are fatty acid oxidation (FAO) intermediates, which have been implicated in diet-induced insulin resistance. Elevated acylcarnitine levels are found in obese, insulin resistant humans and rodents, and coincide with lower free carnitine. We hypothesized that increasing free carnitine levels by administration of the carnitine pre...
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Background Mild cold exposure increases energy expenditure and can influence energy balance, but at the same time it does not increase appetite and energy intake. Objective To quantify dermal insulative cold response, we assessed thermal comfort and skin temperatures changes by infrared thermography. Methods We exposed healthy volunteers to eit...
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Methods: This was a prospective observational study. We included 10 young obese, 11 old lean and 14 young lean healthy males. All subjects underwent a (18)F-Fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) PET-CT and a (123)I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine ((123)I-mIBG) SPECT-CT after an overnight fast and two hours of cold exposure. Metabolic BAT activity was expressed...
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Recent data in animal models reveal that obesity is associated with substantial changes in composition and metabolic function of gut microbiota.
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Acylcarnitines have been implicated in diet-induced insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Here acylcarnitines correlate with fasting glucose levels and HbA1c. We investigated plasma acylcarnitines in relation to energy metabolism and insulin sensitivity in obese subjects before and after weight loss.
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Insulin resistance is the major contributor to cardiometabolic complications of obesity. We aimed to 1) establish cutoff points for insulin resistance from euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamps, 2) identify insulin-resistant obese subjects and 3) predict insulin resistance from routinely measured variables. SUBJECTS/METHODS: We...
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Elevated basal endogenous glucose production (EGP), impaired suppression of EGP by insulin and reduced insulin-stimulated glucose disposal are cornerstones in the pathogenesis of hyperglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes. We aimed to determine the contribution of these processes to impaired fasting glucose in obese non-diabetic adults. We ana...
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Haemoglobin (Hb) variants are well-known factors interfering with accurate HbA1c testing. This report describes two novel Hb variants leading to inappropriate quantification of HbA1c by ion-exchange chromatography. Glycated forms of novel Hb variants were recognised in the blood of two patients with diabetes mellitus screened by HbA1c ion-exchange...
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Background Acylcarnitines are derived from mitochondrial acyl-CoA metabolism, and have been associated with diet-induced insulin resistance. However, plasma acylcarnitine profiles have been shown to poorly reflect whole body acylcarnitine metabolism. Aim We aimed to clarify the individual role of different organ compartments in whole body acylcarni...
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Experimental studies indicate that short-term fasting alters drug metabolism. However, the effects of short-term fasting on drug metabolism in human need further investigation. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of short-term fasting (36h) on CYP450-mediated drug metabolism. In a randomized cross-over study design, nine he...
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Background: The water deprivation test is the gold standard test to differentiate central or nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (DI) from primary polydipsia (PP) in patients with polyuria and polydipsia. Few studies have addressed the diagnostic performance of this test. Methods: The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to evaluate the diagnostic...
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Background: Insulin resistance is the major contributor to cardiometabolic complications of obesity including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mortality. We aimed to 1) determine cutoff points for normal and abnormal insulin sensitivity from euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamps (EHCs), 2) identify obese humans with and without insulin resistance...
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Objective Hypoglycemia is associated with increased heat production and, despite of this, hypothermia. Heat production is likely to be mediated by sympathetic innervation. Brown adipose tissue is activated by cold exposure and stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system. We therefore examined the effect of hypoglycemia on uptake of the labeled glu...
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Takeda G protein-coupled receptor 5 (TGR5), also known as Gpbar1, membrane-type bile acid receptor (M-BAR), or GPR131 is a G protein-coupled receptor that is best known for its activation by bile acids. TGR5 has been found to regulate a number of specific processes, including energy expenditure and glucagon-like peptide-1 release. Other actions in...
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Acylcarnitines have been linked to obesity-induced insulin resistance. However the majority of these studies have focused on acylcarnitines in plasma. It is currently unclear to what extent plasma levels of acylcarnitines reflect tissue acylcarnitine metabolism. We investigated the correlation of plasma acylcarnitine levels with selected tissue acy...
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The EUGOGO criteria and the clinical activity score (CAS) have been used as outcome measures to report response rates for patients after pulsed intravenous methylprednisolone (PIM) therapy. This study compares the results after PIM for both criteria and evaluates the number of rehabilitative surgeries performed in relation to treatment outcome. Thi...
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Acylcarnitines have been linked to obesity-induced insulin resistance. However the majority of these studies have focused on acylcarnitines in plasma. It is currently unclear to what extent plasma levels of acylcarnitines reflect tissue acylcarnitine metabolism. We investigated the correlation of plasma acylcarnitine levels with selected tissue acy...
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Obesity has been associated with changes in the composition and function of the intestinal microbiota. Modulation of the microbiota by antibiotics also alters bile acid and glucose metabolism in mice. Hence, we hypothesized that short term administration of oral antibiotics in humans would affect fecal microbiota composition and subsequently bile a...
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Acylcarnitines (ACs) are fatty acid oxidation (FAO) intermediates and have been implicated in diet-induced insulin resistance, and elevated AC levels coincide with lower free carnitine and may reflect impaired FAO. Modulating carnitine availability by the administration of carnitine precursor γ-butyrobetaine (γBB) may facilitate FAO, thereby improv...
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Bile acids are important in metabolic signalling through their receptors TGR5 and FXR. We investigated postprandial BA levels in relation to insulin levels in different nutritional conditions.
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South Asians have a disproportionately high risk of developing abdominal obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has been identified as a possible target to fight obesity and protect against metabolic disturbance. We explored whether lower BAT activity in South Asians compared with Europids may contribute to the...
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Unlabelled: Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has become a focus of research in the hope of finding a new target to fight obesity. Metabolic BAT activity can be visualized with (18)F-FDG PET/CT. Furthermore, the sympathetic innervation of BAT can be visualized with the radiolabeled norepinephrine analog (123)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ((123)I-MIBG). We ai...
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The incidence of obesity and insulin resistance is growing, and the increase in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) constitutes one of the biggest challenges for our healthcare systems. Many theories are proposed for the induction of insulin resistance in glucose and lipid metabolism and its metabolic sequelae. One of these mechanisms is lipotoxicity (1...
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The human organism has tools to cope with metabolic challenges like starvation, which are crucial for survival. Lipolysis, lipid oxidation, ketone body synthesis, tailored endogenous glucose production and uptake, and decreased glucose oxidation serve to protect against excessive erosion of protein mass, which is the predominant supplier of carbon...
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Background: Optimal doses of i.v. glucocorticoids for Graves' orbitopathy (GO) are undefined. Methods: We carried out a multicenter, randomized, double-blind trial to determine efficacy and safety of three doses of i.v. methylprednisolone in 159 patients with moderate to severe and active GO. Patients were randomized to receive a cumulative dose...
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The role of brown adipose tissue (BAT) in adult metabolism is poorly understood. This study aimed to examine the differential effects of an overnight fast and the postprandial state on BAT activity. We included 10 healthy, lean male volunteers. BAT uptake of glucose was visualized using (18)F-FDG PET/CT during mild cold exposure. Each subject under...
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Insulin resistance is perceived as deleterious, associated with conditions as the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus and critical illness. However, insulin resistance is evolutionarily well preserved and its persistence suggests that it benefits survival. Insulin resistance is important in various states such as starvation, immune activat...
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In Europe, a disease is considered to be rare when its prevalence is less than 5:10,000. With approximately 6000-7000 known rare diseases, 1 out of 20 individuals have such a disease. There is little interest in studying rare diseases because results of such research are only applicable to small groups of people. In addition, research into new drug...
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Graves' thyroid disease is a relatively common disorder in endocrinology and general internal medicine practice. Graves' hyperthyroidism is mediated by circulating stimulating autoantibodies. Up to 60% of patients with Graves' hyperthyroidism develop some form of Graves' orbitopathy. Immune reactivity to the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor is...
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With the increased acceptance of glycated hemoglobin measurement as the test of choice for the diagnosis and detection of diabetes, doubts which surround the use of the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in detecting disturbances in glucose levels have become even more apparent. Metabolically, there are still arguments to use the OGTT. Epidemiologi...
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The diagnostic evaluation of spontaneous hypoglycemia in adults is mainly directed at detecting an insulinoma. Its interpretation is troublesome in those patients who develop low venous plasma glucose levels with appropriate hypoinsulinemia during a prolonged supervised fast. In this study, we investigated in this group of patients whether abnormal...
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The treatment of diabetes mellitus is focused on the prevention of micro- and macrovascular complications. The target HbA(1c) should therefore be 7% or lower. However, a recent study advised a HbA(1c) of 7.5%, since it was found that mortality increased with an HbA(1c) below 7.5%. This was probably caused by hypoglycaemia. A higher mortality in pat...

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