This study deals with the effects of daily intermittent fasting for 15 h upon the development of diabetes in sand rats exposed to a hypercaloric diet. The same pattern of daily intermittent fasting was imposed on sand rats maintained on a purely vegetal diet (control animals). Over the last 30 days of the present experiments, non-fasting animals gained weight, whilst intermittently fasting sand...

BACKGROUND Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess (KPLA) has been reported with increasing frequency in East Asian countries in the past 3 decades, especially in Taiwan and Korea. Diabetes is a well-known risk factor for KPLA and highly associated with septic metastatic complications from KPLA. We investigated the association of glycemic control in diabetic patients with the clinical characteristi...

In the present article, we describe a 3-day experimental workshop on glycemia regulation and type 1 diabetes that engages students in open-ended investigations and guided experiments leading to results that are not already known to them. After an initial questioning phase during which students observe PowerPoint slides depicting the glycemia (blood glucose levels) of individuals in various situ...

G iven that cardiovascular disease is a common complication of diabetes (1) and the leading cause of death among people with diabetes (2,3), it is important that we use the most effective therapies to manage lipids, blood pressure, and glycemia to reduce the risk, progression, and impact of macrovascular disease. Recent studies by Gaede et al. (4) clearly demonstrated that intensive management ...

Restraint and cold stress increase both corticosterone and glycemia, which lead to oxidative damages in hepatic tissue. This study assessed the effect of royal jelly (RJ) supplementation on the corticosterone level, glycemia, plasma enzymes and hepatic antioxidant system in restraint and cold stressed rats. Wistar rats were allocated into no-stress, stress, no-stress supplemented with RJ and st...

The aim was to assess glycemia regulation in a blind diabetic patient after getting a guide dog. Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) results of a blind patient before and after getting the guide dog were retrospectively collected. The paired t-test results yielded a two-tailed P value of 0.0925, a difference considered not statistically significant; the 95% confidence interval of this difference va...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influence of IGF-I and testosterone on the lipid profile and glycemia in acromegalic men. METHODS Fifteen acromegalic men were studied. RESULTS The hypogonadic patients presented lower HDL-c and higher tryglicerides, LDL-c, glycemia, GH and IGF-I. Serum IGF-I was inversely correlated with HDL-c (r = - 0.57, p = 0.04) and directly with TG (r = 0.62, p = 0.01) and g...

The importance of achieving tight glycemic control, usually assessed by glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), for both the prevention and delay in the progression of diabetes-relatedmicrovascular complications, is established, and the American Diabetes Association/European Association for the Study of Diabetes joint committee has recommended an HbA1c ,7% as the goal in patients with type 2 diabetes (1)....

INTRODUCTION Insulin pumps are able to deliver bolus insulin as a standard, extended or combination bolus. There is minimal research to determine which bolus is preferable in different settings. Anecdotally, many patients utilizes only the standard bolus (SB) due to uncertainty regarding when and how to program the different bolus types. We compared postprandial glycemia when five different ext...

OBJECTIVE Eligibility criteria for bariatric surgery in diabetes include BMI ≥35 kg/m(2) and poorly controlled glycemia. However, BMI does not predict diabetes remission, and thus, predictors need to be identified. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Seven hundred twenty-seven patients were included in a database merged from the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study and two randomized controlled studies...