What's the difference between postprandial and prandial?
Postprandial
Definition:
(a.) Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, it has been suggested that vasoactive gastrointestinal peptides are involved in the etiology of postprandial BP reduction.
(2) Conflicting reports exist on the postprandial response of serum cationic trypsin like immunoreactivity (SCTLI).
(3) Both the SPI and EW groups had significantly higher levels of CPA and CPB activity at 1 h postprandial than the C group.
(4) In the postprandial state net acid (4.9%) and sulfate (2.2%) had much less importance as determinants of calciuria.
(5) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
(6) This study shows that the presence of pancreatic juice in the duodenal lumen enhances the fat-stimulated release of enteric hormones that have a stimulatory action on the enteroacinar and enteroinsular axis as well as an inhibitory action (enterogastrone-like activity) on the postprandial regulation of gastric function.
(7) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
(8) Postprandially, the capsule remained in the stomach for the duration of the 6-hour observation period.
(9) O2 consumption (VO2) was measured during a submaximal treadmill exercise test 165 min postprandially before and the morning after the overfeeding protocol.
(10) Slowing starch digestion by inhibiting amylase activity in the intestinal lumen should improve postprandial carbohydrate tolerance in patients with diabetes mellitus.
(11) During the postprandial period, increase of pH values was prolonged over 2 h 30 in 50 p. 100 of subjects.
(12) To determine whether basal insulin supplementation in addition to lowering postabsorptive plasma glucose concentration also improves the postprandial pattern of glucose disposition, glucose metabolism after ingestion of a solid mixed meal was assessed in obese patients with NIDDM before and after treatment with ultralente and compared with glucose metabolism observed in nondiabetic subjects.
(13) After colonoscopic positioning of a manometric probe, 2-h basal and 3-h postprandial (1000 kcal standard mixed meal) recordings were obtained.
(14) After a modified Child's reconstruction, the postprandial level was significantly lower than in the controls and in patients with a Billroth II anastomosis.
(15) Plasma secretin concentrations were within the postprandial range during the lowest four secretin infusion rates.
(16) Postprandial increases in VFA, BOHB and L-lactate net flux across PDV followed meal-feeding of lucerne.
(17) Basal and postprandial serum gastrin concentrations were measured in week 1, before (day 1) and immediately after the 3-day omeprazole course (day 4), and further on day 6 and day 8, immediately before the next course, and at similar intervals in week 4 (days 22, 25, 27, and 29).
(18) However, the sensitivity shown by the 24-h period of esophageal pH-recording was 81%, whereas that for the 12-h period was 50% and that for 10 h postprandially 70%.
(19) The influence of vagal integrity on NPY, PYY, and PP basal and postprandial release was evaluated using a new technique of reversible cryogenic cervical vagal blockade in an awake canine model.
(20) Out-patient follow-up over a period of 12 months showed constant satisfactory mean day blood sugar values and morning postprandial blood sugar.
Prandial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a girl with RS who has defects both of the urea cycle and of carbohydrate metabolism resulting in fasting hypoglycaemia, post-prandial hyperlactataemia and excess urinary orotic acid excretion after alanine load.
(2) Therefore, the aim of present study was to analyse fasting and post-prandial serum gastrin levels in 99 duodenal ulcer patients, 17 gastric ulcer patients and 11 subjects presenting an association of gastric and duodenal ulcer.
(3) The aim of this study was to examine whether hydrochloric acid plays a role mediating the post-prandial increase in plasma somatostatinlike immunoreactivity in normal subjects.
(4) Post-prandial cramping abdominal pain may be an early symptom of thrombosis, demanding immediate anticoagulation.
(5) Post-prandial serum gastrin concentrations, expressed as per cent increase, were higher in heavy drinkers (No.
(6) Post-prandial intestinal motility depends on both chemical nature and caloric load of nutriments: DICM depends on those two factors but PSP only depends on nature of nutriments.
(7) The diabetic patients were on good metabolic control testified by a satisfactory fasting and post prandial glycaemia, absence of glycosuria in the last 3 monthly controls and a normal value of glycosylate haemoglobin; they had no vascular or neurological complications; CAD was excluded submitting these patients to a maximal effort ECG on an ergometer.
(8) Post-prandial glucose and insulin reponses did not significantly differ whether a high fat diet or a high carbohydrate diet was consumed.
(9) It is concluded that the (14C) aminopyrine breath test is a simple test for detecting hepatocellular dysfunction, but has no obvious diagnostic advantage over the determination of serum aspartate transaminase and two hour post-prandial bile-acids.
(10) However, its major interest could be observed during snacks and meals in order to control precisely post-prandial glucose variations, in association with blood glucose self-monitoring.
(11) No relationship could be established between UAE and any of the metabolic indexes; GFR was weakly correlated to HbA1C (r = 0.35; P less than 0.05), to mean (r = 0.37; P less than 0.05) and post-prandial blood glucose (r = 0.37; P less than 0.05).
(12) A single oral dose (40 mg) of tenoxicam (Ro12-0068) was administered to six normal male volunteers pre- and post-prandially and to a further six volunteers with and without antacid to determine the effect of food and and of antacid on absorption.
(13) The results indicated a transient reduction in fasting and post-prandial blood sugar levels at 15-day period with no appreciable changes in serum glycosylated protein levels, glycosylated low density lipoprotein cholesterol fraction, serum lipids, lipoprotein cholesterol levels, uronic acid and total amino acids were observed during the supplementation period, i.e, either at 15 days or 30 days.
(14) Experiments in vivo revealed no significant differences between the normal and homozygous familial hypercholesterolemic (FHH) subjects in chylomicron remnant clearance assessed on the basis of "areas under the curves" for retinyl palmitate levels present in post-prandial serum, chylomicron remnants (Sf.
(15) Previous studies suggested that insulin requirement in type I diabetics could be split in a "basal" insulin requirement, mainly related to body weight and in a "post-prandial" insulin requirement, mainly related to carbohydrates intake.
(16) The behaviour of a regularly fed infant in the second quarter of his first year seems to be no longer influenced in the periods proceeding and following the feeding act by the prandial cycle but rather by cognitive needs.
(17) Median pH-values from predefined time periods (whole day, prandial, interdigestive, nocturnal) were compared between the three groups.
(18) Thus, diurnal effects may be more important than prandial effects in the evaluation of the kinetics of 5-ASA and its metabolites after peroral administration of enteric coated tablets.
(19) Post-prandial fall in Lys proportion was questionably significant.
(20) Enprostil markedly reduced the post-prandial rises in insulin and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) but plasma glucose remained unchanged.