Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M. J., Smith, Jacqueline P., Metsios, Giorgos S., Elisaf, Moses S., Nightingale, Peter, ...
The galectin-2 (LGALS2) 3279 C/T single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) has recently been associated with myocardial infarction (MI). Although hypertension, a very prevalent entity in rheumatoid...
Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S., Panoulas, Vasileios F., Nevill, Alan M., Jamurtas, Athanasios Z., Koutedakis, Yiannis, ...
Obesity is characterised by low-grade inflammation and could potentially affect disease activity and severity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Body mass index (BMI), body fat (BF),...
Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Panoulas, Vasileios F., Wilson, Mat, Nevill, Alan M., Koutedakis, Yiannis, ...
OBJECTIVE: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are characterized by reduced physical activity and increased morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of this study was to...
Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S, Panoulas, Vasileios F, Douglas, Karen MJ, Nevill, Alan M, Jamurtas, Athanasios Z, ...
Abstract Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with altered metabolism leading to muscle wasting. In the general population, cigarette smoking is known to affect body composition by...
Criterion-related validity and test—retest reliability of the 20m Square Shuttle Test (2008)
Metsios, Giorgos S., Flouris, Andreas D., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Nevill, Alan M.
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Smoking significantly increases basal metabolic rate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. (2008)
Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Nevill, Alan M., Douglas, Karen M. J., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Kitas, George D.
OBJECTIVE: Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the most important indicator of human metabolism and its abnormalities have been linked to undesirable health outcomes. Cigarette smoking associates with...
Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S., Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M. J., Nevill, Alan M., Jamurtas, Athanasios Z., ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the associations of body mass index (BMI) with modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: BMI, disease activity,...
Rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease and physical exercise: a systematic review (2008)
Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Treharne, G.J., Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M. J., ...
This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of exercise interventions in improving disease-related characteristics in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It also provides suggestions...
Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S., Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M. J., Nevill, Alan M., Jamurtas, Athanasios Z., ...
INTRODUCTION: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with altered metabolism leading to muscle wasting. In the general population, cigarette smoking is known to affect body composition by reducing...
Nevill, Alan M., Metsios, Giorgos S., Jackson, A.S., Wang, J., Thornton, J., Gallagher, D.
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Flouris, Andreas D., Metsios, Giorgos S., Jamurtas, Athanasios Z., Koutedakis, Yiannis
Experimental evidence for the physiological effects of secondhand smoke (SHS) is limited, although it affects millions of people globally and its prevalence is increasing, despite currently adopted...
Panoulas, Vasileios F., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S., Smith, Jacqueline P., Milionis, Haralampos J., Douglas, Karen M. J., ...
Abstract Background Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are increased in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is high in RA and, together with smoking and obesity, an important...
Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Panoulas, Vasileios F., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Kitas, George D.
Metabolism is one of the most important physiological functions. Resting energy expenditure, physical activity and diet are the main factors of total metabolism but the contribution of these...
Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M. J., Milionis, Haralampos J., Nightingale, Peter, Kita, Marina D., Klocke, Rainer, ...
Hypertension (HT) is highly prevalent in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Serum uric acid (SUA) has been associated with HT in the general population. The mutual exclusion of gout and RA, and the systemic...
New resting energy expenditure prediction equations for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2008)
Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Panoulas, Vasileios F., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Nevill, Alan M., Douglas, Karen M. J., ...
OBJECTIVES: Resting energy expenditure (REE), one of the main components of total energy expenditure, can be measured via indirect calorimetry and/or predicted from equations. The latter may be...
Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M. J., Milionis, Haralampos J., Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Nightingale, Peter, ...
OBJECTIVE: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associates with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that is due to both traditional and novel cardiovascular risk factors. Hypertension (HT), one of...
Hypertension in rheumatoid arthritis (2008)
Panoulas, Vasileios F., Metsios, Giorgos S., Pace, A.V., John, H., Treharne, G.J., Banks, M.J., ...
RA associates with an increased burden of cardiovascular disease, which is at least partially attributed to classical risk factors such as hypertension (HT) and dyslipidaemia. HT is highly prevalent,...
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Redefining overweight and obesity in rheumatoid arthritis patients (2007)
Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Nevill, Alan M., Douglas, Karen M. J., Jamurtas, Athanasios Z., ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess whether body mass index (BMI) and body fat (BF) differ between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, patients with non-inflammatory arthritis (osteoarthritis, OA) and healthy...
Metsios, Giorgos S., Flouris, Andreas D., Jamurtas, Athanasios Z., Carrillo, A.E., Kouretas, Dimitris, Germenis, A.E., ...
CONTEXT: Active smoking influences normal metabolic status and thyroid function. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to assess experimentally the effects of 1 h of moderate passive smoking in a controlled...
Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Douglas, Karen M. J., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Nevill, Alan M., Panoulas, Vasileios F., ...
Objectives. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is accompanied by increased resting energy expenditure (REE) and decreased fat-free mass (FFM). This is referred to as rheumatoid cachexia and is attributed to...
Koutedakis, Yiannis, Hukam, Harmel, Metsios, Giorgos S., Nevill, Alan M., Giakas, Giannis, Jamurtas, Athanasios Z., ...
The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of a 12-week aerobic and muscular strength training program on selected dance performance and fitness-related parameters in modern dance...
Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M. J., Milionis, Haralampos J., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Nightingale, Peter, Kita, Marina D., ...
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Rheumatology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version in Rheumatology 2007...
Rheumatoid Cachexia: causes, significance and possible interventions (2006)
Metsios, Giorgos S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Koutedakis, Yiannis, Kitas, George D.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease characterised by joint pain and stiffness but also systemic mutli-organ involvement. Several features are due to excessive production of...
Contribution of muscular strength in cardiorespiratory fitness tests. (2006)
Flouris, Andreas D., Metsios, Giorgos S., Koutedakis, Yiannis
Reports from laboratory-based studies have revealed a relationship between resistance training and endurance performance in both trained and untrained individuals. The purpose of the present study...
The effect of performance feedback on cardiorespiratory fitness field tests. (2006)
Metsios, Giorgos S., Flouris, Andreas D., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Theodorakis, Yannis
We investigated the effects of performance feedback (PF) on predicting maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) using the 20 m Multistage Shuttle Run Test (MST) and 20 m Square Shuttle Test (SST). The...
The Significance of Muscular Strength in Dance (2005)
Koutedakis, Yiannis, Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S.
The physical demands placed on dancers make their physiology and fitness just as important as skill development. However, dancers’ muscular strength and bone and joint integrity seem to suffer as a...
Enhancing the efficacy of the 20 m multistage shuttle run test (2005)
Flouris, Andreas D., Metsios, Giorgos S., Koutedakis, Yiannis
OBJECTIVE: Maximal oxygen uptake (Vo(2max)) of 44 ml kg(-1) min(-1) is an accepted criterion (Vo(2CR)) below which health and fitness for young male adults may be compromised. New algorithms...
Enhancing specificity in proxy-design for the assessment of bioenergetics. (2004)
Flouris, Andreas D., Koutedakis, Yiannis, Nevill, Alan M., Metsios, Giorgos S., Tsiotra, G.D., Parasiris, Y.
The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that improved prediction of bioenergetics may be achieved when proxies are designed to simulate closely gold standard laboratory protocols. To...