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disease of metabolism

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metabolic disease


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A disease that involving errors in metabolic processes of building or degradation of molecules.


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LIFE- Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases

Goal of the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE) is the investigation of civilization diseases like depression, diabetes, allergies or cardiovascular diseases. For this purpose we collect as much data as possible regarding health and living conditions of the population in Leipzig and provide these data for scientists of the University of Leipzig and other research institutions.

Programme: Epidemiology

Public web page: http://life.uni-leipzig.de/

Start date: 1st Jan 2009

LIFE Adult

This population-based study examined 10,000 participants randomly selected from the Leipzig population (2011 to 2014). A follow-up is to be carried out from 2017 - 2020. The study mainly included people aged between 40 and 79. All participants underwent a 6-hour study program and people over 60 years of age were invited two more times to in-depth study of cognition and depression and the brain (MRI, EEG). Extensive measurements of genome, metabolome and transcriptome are available. The LIFE-ADULT
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Programme: Epidemiology

Public web page: http://life.uni-leipzig.de/en/adults/life_adult.html

Start date: 1st Jan 2009

LIFE Child

LIFE Child wants to find out how environmental factors and lifestyles can affect the health of children and adolescents. The aim of the study is to examine civilization diseases such as allergies, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases in more detail. Furthermore, the study also focuses on healthy mental and physical development from the infant to the young adult. The team of the LIFE Child study around Prof. Dr. med. Wieland Kiess would like to examine and question about 5,000 subjects aged
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Programme: This Project is not associated with a Programme

Public web page: http://life.uni-leipzig.de/en/children_adolescents_and_pregnant_women/life_child.html

Start date: 1st Jan 2009

Obesity of Adults in Leipzig
LIFE Adult

Emerging health geography research analyzes and visualizes health behaviors and outcomes in relation to urban environmental data and related official statistics to produce “health reports” for specific areas. This can be extended to developments in urban planning, e.g., to identify districts or neighborhoods for social investments or restrictions.

We mapped anthropometric data the large LIFE Adult population (10,000 participants) onto the Leipzig map. In particular, we derived the body mass index
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Creator: René Hänsel

Contributor: René Hänsel

Metabolite-Investigator: Shiny-Tool for investigation of metabolite-covariate relationships
Genetical Statistics and Systems Biology

The main goal is to provide a principled analysis workflow addressing specific issues of mass-spectrometry metabolite measurements in the context of testing in multiple studies with a high number of hypotheses

Shiny-Application of an analysis pipeline for preprocessing, association and covariate selection of metabolite data with clinical and lifestyle factors in one or more seperate studies. Preprocessing steps include transformation, outlier filtering and batch-adjustment. Analyses include uni-
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Creator: Carl Beuchel

Contributor: Carl Beuchel

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Prevalence of moderately increased albuminuria among individuals with normal HbA1c level but impaired glucose tolerance: Results from the LIFE-Adult-Study.
LIFE Adult

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Aims: Diabetes screening strategies using glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) as first-instance diagnostic parameter may cause failure to detect individuals with abnormal glucose regulation and possible signs … of microvascular complications despite "rule-out" HbA1c levels. This cross-sectional study examined the diagnostic performance of HbA1c in relation to fasting and two-hour postload plasma glucose (FPG/2 h-PG), and investigated whether individuals with normal HbA1c but abnormal FPG/2 h-PG have a higher prevalence of moderately increased albuminuria as possible sign of early stage kidney damage. Methods: A total of 2695 individuals (age 40-79 years, 48% men) without prior diagnosis of diabetes and complete measurement of HbA1c, FPG, 2 h-PG and urine albumin-creatinine ratio (UACR) were taken from a large population-based epidemiological study in the City of Leipzig, Germany. Results: A total of 2439 individuals (90.5%, 95% CI: 89.4-91.6) had normal HbA1c levels, <39 mmol/mol (<5.7%), while 234 (8.7%, 95% CI: 7.7-9.8) had prediabetes, HbA1c >/=39 and <48 mmol/mol (>/=5.7 and <6.5%), and 22 (0.8%, 95% CI: 0.5-1.2) had diabetes, HbA1c >/=48 mmol/mol (>/=6.5%), according to HbA1c. Among individuals with normal HbA1c, 35.6% (95% CI: 33.7-37.5) had impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance and 1.8% (95% CI: 1.4-2.4) had diabetes according to FPG/2 h-PG. Individuals with normal HbA1c but prediabetic or diabetic FPG/2 h-PG had a significantly higher prevalence of moderately increased albuminuria (9.4%, 95% CI: 7.6-11.5 and 13.3%, 95% CI: 5.8-25.4, respectively) than individuals with normal HbA1c and normal FPG/2 h-PG (3.9%, 95% CI: 3.0-5.0). Conclusions: The prevalence of prediabetes according to FPG/2 h-PG among individuals with normal HbA1c is considerably high, and the prevalence of moderately increased albuminuria in this group is significantly elevated. Risk factors for diabetes such as age, gender and BMI may help to better identify this at-risk group.

Authors: M. Zivkovic, A. Tonjes, R. Baber, K. Wirkner, Markus Löffler, Christoph Engel

Date Published: 1st Mar 2019

Journal: Endocrinol Diabetes Metab

Human Diseases: glucose metabolism disease

Longitudinal anthropometry of children and adolescents using 3D-body scanning.
LIFE- Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, LIFE Child

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3D-body scanning anthropometry is a suitable method for characterization of physiological development of children and adolescents, and for understanding onset and progression of disorders like overweight … and obesity. Here we present a novel body typing approach to describe and to interpret longitudinal 3D-body scanning data of more than 800 children and adolescents measured in up to four follow-ups in intervals of 1 year, referring to an age range between 6 and 18 years. We analyzed transitions between body types assigned to lower-, normal- and overweight participants upon development of children and adolescents. We found a virtually parallel development of the body types with only a few transitions between them. Body types of children and adolescents tend to conserve their weight category. 3D body scanning anthropometry in combination with body typing constitutes a novel option to investigate onset and progression of obesity in children.

Authors: Henry Löffler-Wirth, M. Vogel, Toralf Kirsten, F. Glock, T. Poulain, A. Korner, Markus Löffler, W. Kiess, Hans Binder

Date Published: 14th Sep 2018

Journal: PLoS One

Human Diseases: obesity

Obesity negatively impacts outcome in elderly female patients with aggressive B-cell lymphomas treated with R-CHOP: results from prospective trials of the German high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma trial group.
German Lymphoma Alliance (GLA)

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To study if obesity is a risk factor in elderly patients (>60 years) with aggressive B-cell lymphoma, the outcomes of 576 elderly patients treated with rituximab in the RICOVER-60 trial were analysed … in a retrospective study with regard to body mass index (BMI) and gender. Of the 576 patients, 1% had low body weight (BMI < 18.5), 38% were normal weight (18.5 </= BMI < 25), 42% were overweight (25 </= BMI < 30) and 19% were obese (BMI >/= 30). Event-free (EFS), progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) according to BMI showed no significant differences for all and for male patients. EFS (P = 0.041), PFS (P = 0.038) and OS (P = 0.031) were significantly better for female non-obese patients. A multivariate analysis adjusted for International Prognostic Index risk factors confirmed these results, with the following hazard ratios (HR) for obesity (BMI >/= 30) for EFS/PFS/OS: all patients - 1.4/1.4/1.4 (not significant); male patients - 1.2/1.2/1.0 (not significant) and female patients - 1.7 (P = 0.032)/1.9 (P = 0.022)/2.0 (P = 0.017). In conclusion, obesity is a risk factor that influences treatment outcome in elderly female patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma treated with R-CHOP (rituximab + cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisolone). The inferior outcomes in obese female patients may be due to faster rituximab clearance in obese females.

Authors: K. Hohloch, Bettina Altmann, M. Pfreundschuh, Markus Löffler, N. Schmitz, F. Zettl, Marita Ziepert, L. Trumper

Date Published: 2nd Dec 2017

Journal: Br J Haematol

Human Diseases: obesity, B-cell lymphoma

Body typing of children and adolescents using 3D-body scanning.
LIFE Child

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Three-dimensional (3D-) body scanning of children and adolescents allows the detailed study of physiological development in terms of anthropometrical alterations which potentially provide early onset … markers for obesity. Here, we present a systematic analysis of body scanning data of 2,700 urban children and adolescents in the age range between 5 and 18 years with the special aim to stratify the participants into distinct body shape types and to describe their change upon development. In a first step, we extracted a set of eight representative meta-measures from the data. Each of them collects a related group of anthropometrical features and changes specifically upon aging. In a second step we defined seven body types by clustering the meta-measures of all participants. These body types describe the body shapes in terms of three weight (lower, normal and overweight) and three age (young, medium and older) categories. For younger children (age of 5-10 years) we found a common 'early childhood body shape' which splits into three weight-dependent types for older children, with one or two years delay for boys. Our study shows that the concept of body types provides a reliable option for the anthropometric characterization of developing and aging populations.

Authors: Henry Löffler-Wirth, M. Vogel, Toralf Kirsten, F. Glock, T. Poulain, A. Korner, Markus Löffler, W. Kiess, Hans Binder

Date Published: 21st Oct 2017

Journal: PLoS One

Human Diseases: obesity

Higher body mass index is associated with reduced posterior default mode connectivity in older adults.
LIFE Adult

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Obesity is a complex neurobehavioral disorder that has been linked to changes in brain structure and function. However, the impact of obesity on functional connectivity and cognition in aging humans … is largely unknown. Therefore, the association of body mass index (BMI), resting-state network connectivity, and cognitive performance in 712 healthy, well-characterized older adults of the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE) cohort (60-80 years old, mean BMI 27.6 kg/m(2) +/- 4.2 SD, main sample: n = 521, replication sample: n = 191) was determined. Statistical analyses included a multivariate model selection approach followed by univariate analyses to adjust for possible confounders. Results showed that a higher BMI was significantly associated with lower default mode functional connectivity in the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus. The effect remained stable after controlling for age, sex, head motion, registration quality, cardiovascular, and genetic factors as well as in replication analyses. Lower functional connectivity in BMI-associated areas correlated with worse executive function. In addition, higher BMI correlated with stronger head motion. Using 3T neuroimaging in a large cohort of healthy older adults, independent negative associations of obesity and functional connectivity in the posterior default mode network were observed. In addition, a subtle link between lower resting-state connectivity in BMI-associated regions and cognitive function was found. The findings might indicate that obesity is associated with patterns of decreased default mode connectivity similar to those seen in populations at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Hum Brain Mapp 38:3502-3515, 2017. (c) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Authors: Frauke Beyer, S. Kharabian Masouleh, J. M. Huntenburg, L. Lampe, Tobias Luck, Steffi Gerlinde Riedel-Heller, Markus Löffler, M. L. Schroeter, M. Stumvoll, A. Villringer, A. V. Witte

Date Published: 12th Apr 2017

Journal: Hum Brain Mapp

Human Diseases: obesity

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