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1. Five-year incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus among cardiovascular disease-free Greek adults: Findings from the ATTICA study

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Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Christos Pitsavos, Yannis Skoumas, Yannis Lentzas, and Christodoulos Stefanadis

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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
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Demosthenes B Panagiotakos1, Christos Pitsavos2, Yannis Skoumas2, Yannis Lentzas2, Christodoulos Stefanadis21Department of Nutrition Science-Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece; 2First Cardiology Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, GreeceObjective: We evaluated the 5-year incidence of diabetes in an adult population from Greece.Research design and methods: 3042 individuals (>18 years), free of cardiovascular disease, participated in the baseline examination (during 2001–2002). Of this sample, 1012 men and 1035 women were found alive at the time of follow-up, while 32 (2.1%) men and 22 (1.4%) women died during this period. The rest were lost to follow-up. Incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus was evaluated in 1806 participants who did not have diabetes at baseline.Results: The age-adjusted 5-year incidence of diabetes was 5.5% (men, 5.8%; women, 5.2%). A linear trend was observed between diabetes incidence and age (5.6% increases in incidence per 1-year difference in age, p

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2008

2. Physical Activity and Adherence to Mediterranean Diet Increase Total Antioxidant Capacity: The ATTICA Study

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Stavros A. Kavouras, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christos Pitsavos, Christina Chrysohoou, Giannis Arnaoutis, Yannis Skoumas, and Christodoulos Stefanadis

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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
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We studied the association of physical activity and adherence to the Mediterranean diet, in total antioxidant capacity (TAC). A random sample of 1514 men and 1528 women was selected from Attica region. Physical activity was assessed with a translated version of the validated “International Physical Activity Questionnaire” (iPAQ), and dietary intake through a validated Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ). Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was assessed by the MedDietScore that incorporated the inherent characteristics of this diet. TAC was positively correlated with the degree of physical activity (P

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2011
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3. Abdominal obesity, blood glucose and apolipoprotein B levels are the best predictors of the incidence of hypercholesterolemia (2001-2006) among healthy adults: the ATTICA Study

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Christos Pitsavos, Yannis Lentzas, Yannis Skoumas, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Labros Papadimitriou, Christina Chrysohoou, and Christodoulos Stefanadis

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Adult, Blood Glucose, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Waist, Apolipoprotein B, Mediterranean diet, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Hypercholesterolemia, Clinical Biochemistry, Abdominal Fat, Clinical nutrition, Endocrinology, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Obesity, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, lcsh:RC620-627, Abdominal obesity, Aged, Apolipoproteins B, Biochemistry, medical, biology, Greece, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Research, Incidence, Biochemistry (medical), Odds ratio, Middle Aged, lcsh:Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases, biology.protein, Female, medicine.symptom, business
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Objective In this work we evaluated the 5-year incidence of hypercholesterolemia, in a sample of cardiovascular disease free adult men and women from Greece. We also evaluated the association of several socio-demographic, dietary and lifestyle habits on the incidence of this disorder. Methods 1514 men and 1528 women (>18 y) without any clinical evidence of cardiovascular disease, living in Attica area, Greece, were enrolled in the ATTICA study from May 2001 to December 2002. The sampling was random, multi-stage, and included information about various socio-demographic, lifestyle (diet, exercise, smoking etc), biological (lipids, and inflammatory markers), and clinical characteristics of the participants. In 2006, a group of experts performed the 5-year follow-up through telephone calls or personal visits (941 of the 3042 (31%) participants were lost to follow-up). Hypercholesterolemia, among people who had normal blood lipids at initial examination, was defined as fasting total cholesterol levels > 200 mg/dl or use of lipids lowering agents (NCEP ATPIII). Results The 5-year incidence of hypercholesterolemia was 23.7% (n = 127) in men and 17.7% (n = 110) in women (p for gender differences < 0.001). Multi-adjusted logistic regression analysis which revealed that increased age (odds ratio = 1.05, p < 0.001), waist circumference (odds ratio = 1.02, p = 0.03), fasting blood glucose (odds ratio = 1.01, p = 0.08) and apolipoprotein B (odds ratio = 1.02, p = 0.001) levels, were the most significant baseline predictors of developing hypercholesterolemia within a 5-year period. Conclusion Incidence of hypercholesterolemia was high in both genders, emphasizing the burden of this disorder at population level. Aging, increased waist circumference, fasting blood glucose and apolipoprotein B levels were the most significant baseline predictors of hypercholesterolemia.

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