Delayed Blood Sugar Determinations: Evaluation of a Blood Preservative

Blood Pepsin Determinations in Gastritis ‡

Study of groups of asymptomatic subjects with an increased likelihood of developing gastric cancer is a fundamental approach to the problem of gastric cancer. The selection of such groups, however, has remained a difficult task.' Pernicious anemia and its pathologic substrate, gastric atrophy, frequently associated with gastric cancer, may be an important precursor of gastric malignancy."8 Mors...

Preservation of Blood Ammonia by Rapid Freezing--a Method for Delayed Determinations.

A method is described for preservation of blood for delayed determinations of ammonia by rapid freezing of the samples in a dry ice and acetone solution followed by storage of the specimens in the frozen state. The method was evaluated by first establishing the reproducibility of the chemical method used for blood ammonia analysis in 714 consecutive samples of dog blood which were analyzed in d...

Estimation of Blood Sugar

The Effect of Relaxation on Blood Sugar and Blood Pressure Changes of Women with Gestational Diabetes: a Randomized Control Trial

Objective: Gestational diabetes influences mother’s health and is accompanied by severe complications. Relaxation is a complementary method for managing this disease. Hence, the current study aimed to evaluate the effect of relaxation on blood sugar and blood pressure changes of women with gestational diabetes. Materials and Methods: In present randomized control trial, 58 patients with gestat...

A Microtest for Blood Sugar

P. Bose, Diabetes Research Worker, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, who remarks that the method has undergone several modifications in Mie hands of Lewis, Benedict, Meyers, Baily and others, but has never yet obtained universal acceptance. The main objection to this method is that the picric acid reagent employed in fhe test reacts with the creatinin of the blood, and this tends to make th...