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Exclusion criteria included previous tuberculosis or tuberculosis treatment, serious co-morbidity such as diabetes mellitus or hypertension, steroid or antiretroviral use (since there was no consistent policy in Uganda on the use of antiretroviral treatment between 1992 and 1995), pregnancy, and WHO clinical stage IV AIDS [ 17 ] .
For example, 1) in Type 1 diabetes mellitus, the bulk of both the linkage and association data implicate the HLA region and INS [22]; 2) for Type 2 diabetes mellitus, there are a number of findings in the literature where the association evidence appears to be consistent and compelling ( CAPN10 , KCNJ11 , and PPARG )—the data indicate that the same marker allele is significantly associated and has an effect size of similar direction and magnitude [22] (the linkage data are less congruent, probably due to power considerations); and 3) for age-related macular degeneration, at least five studies show highly significant association with the same CFH Y402H polymorphism [23–27] in a region strongly implicated by multiple linkage studies.
There is widespread interest in developing tissue replacement strategies for treatment of human disorders like diabetes mellitus and Parkinson disease.
Multivariate analysis revealed that the metabolic syndrome 2fold the coronary risk (odds ratio = 2.35, 95% 1.87 - 2.84) after adjustment for age, sex, physical activity levels, smoking habits, financial status and presence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes mellitus.
The WHR, a measure of central adiposity, is gaining increased use as a measure of etiologically significant obesity and is thought to be more closely related to pathology, especially coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus and stroke [ 7 ] . The metabolic changes that accompany obesity include peripheral hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia and glucose intolerance, hypertriglyceridemia, decreased serum low-density lipoprotein, increased serum very low-density lipoprotein, increased serum leptin, dyslipidemia, increased serum cortisol clearance, increased serum C-peptide level, downregulation of insulin receptors and an exaggerated insulin response to an oral glucose load [ 12 13 14 15 ] . These changes, especially when they occur in early adulthood, may be of fundamental importance in the development of breast cancer [ 9 16 ] .
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