2007 - Metabolic Syndrome Institute AWARDS
The winners
The first MSI Awards were officially presented on July 12, 2008 during the MSI meeting held in New York.
The winners received their MSI Award Certificate from the hands of Scott Grundy, MSI co-chairman.
Leoné Malan, PhD
Subject Group Physiology North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Project: Sympathetic activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA).
Goal: Lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes are associated with urbanisation and Africans with their higher vascular blood pressure reactivity are at greater risk for cardiometabolic lifestyle associated diseases.
This project is the first study done on Africans to evaluate their coping styles and catecholamine metabolic markers contributing to higher sympathetic activity and poorer psychosocial well-being. Sympathetic activity will be indicated by cardiovascular, endothelial dysfunction, stress profile (hormones, psychosocial well-being) and vascular inflammatory markers.
Adrian CAMERON
Baker idi heart and Diabetes Institute, Caulfield, Australia. Adrian Cameron is completing his PhD in the area of MetS at Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and is supported by a post- graduate scholarship from the Heart Foundation of Australia.
Project: Outcomes from and risk factors for the Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) in the prospective AusDiab study.
Goal: Using data from the AusDiab study, a population-based national and longitudinal study of diabetes, pre-diabetes, obesity, heart and kidney disease in Australia and the longitudinal Mauritius Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) study:
- To quantify the impact of MetS and its constituents on the development of cardiovascular disease, cause-specific mortality, diabetes and other outcomes such as chronic kidney disease and diabetic complications.
- To compare the CVD and mortality outcomes from MetS in AusDiab with similar data from the Mauritius NCD study in order to investigate whether MetS has the same implications in different ethnicities.
Carlos A. AGUILAR SALINAS, MD
Departamento de Endocrinología y Metabolismo. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición. Vasco de Quiroga 15. México D.F. 14000.
Project: Educational programs in primary schools and for primary care physicians may modify the prevalence of obesity in a 20,000-inhabitant county.
Goal: To evaluate the effects of the simultaneous application of educational programs in primary schools and for primary care physicians on the prevalence of obesity and related conditions (i.e. diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia) in a county of 20,000 inhabitants (Tenango del Valle, Estado de México) during a 2-year period.
The main outcome variable is the combined prevalence of obesity (body mass index > 95th percentile) and overweight (body mass index between the 85 and 95th percentiles) measured in population-based surveys done in subjects living nearby the schools and the medical units, before and after the two-year intervention. In the same surveys, the prevalence of diabetes, dyslipidemia and arterial hypertension will be recorded, but these variables will not be considered as outcomes.
