Michele Mietus-Snyder

TL;DR: Excessive dietary fructose consumption may underlie the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and the metabolic syndrome, and it is postulate that NAFLD and alcoholic fatty Liver disease share the same pathogenesis.

TL;DR: In this paper, an update of the 2003 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Obesity, Insulin Resistance, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk in Children from the Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in the Young Committee (Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the young) and the Diabetes Committee (council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism).

TL;DR: This scientific statement was written to review the current literature on the noninvasive assessment of atherosclerosis in children and adolescents, make recommendations for the standardization of these tools for research, and stimulate further research with a goal of developing valid and reliable techniques with normative data for nonin invasive clinical evaluation of atheosclerosis in Pediatrics.

TL;DR: Ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) has been found to be superior to clinic BP (CBP) monitoring in predicting cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in children and adolescents as mentioned in this paper, and is gaining acceptance as a useful modality for evaluation of BP levels in both hypertension research and in the clinic setting.

TL;DR: Flavonoid-rich dark chocolate improves endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilation of the brachial artery and is associated with an increase in plasma epicatechin concentrations in healthy adults.