BACKGROUND The validity of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is well established in diabetic patients. CGM is also increasingly used for research purposes in normo-glycemic individuals, but the CGM validity in such individuals is unknown. We studied the accuracy of CGM measurements in normo-glycemic individuals by comparing CGM-derived versus venous blood-derived glucose levels and measures o...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of strict glycemic control on the carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) in type 2 diabetic patients who initially had good glycemic control (HbA1c between 5.8 and 6.4 %). The subjects were 67 patients showing deterioration of the mean HbA1c over 3 years by more than 0.2% from baseline (D group) and 33 subjects showing improvement of the ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the endothelial functions before and after glycemic control in type II diabetes mellitus. MATERIAL AND METHODS It was an open, randomized and comparative study on 30 patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study was of 12 weeks spread over 5 visits. The initial visit (visit 1) is for screening of patients. Other visits (visits 2 to 5) constituted the follow up of patie...

OBJECTIVE Patient education is a key element in the treatment of diabetes. Assessment of diabetes knowledge is important for optimum treatment. For the assessment of diabetes knowledge, validated tool is essential. None of such validated tool is available in Urdu language. Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate and examine the psychometric properties of the 24-item Urdu version of Di...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe body composition in term infants of mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) compared with infants of mothers with normal glucose tolerance (NGT). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This cross-sectional study included 599 term babies born at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Neonatal body fat percentage (BF%) was measured within 48 h of bi...

BACKGROUND Immunological and inflammatory mechanisms play a key role in the development and progression of type 2 diabetes mellitus. AIM To raise the hypothesis that alterations in immunological parameters occur after duodenojejunal bypass surgery combined with ileal interposition without gastrectomy, and influences the insulin metabolism of betacells. METHODS Seventeen patients with type 2...

chorea is brief, quasi-purposeful, irregular muscle contractions, not repetitive or rhythmic, but flows from one muscle to the next and athetosis is slow, writhing, continuous, worm-like movements of distal extremities (chiefly the fingers) which show bizarre positioning without posturing. metabolic causes have been documented earlier, note worthy of that being diabetes. choreoathetosis has bee...

equal amounts of carbohydrates from various foodstuffs do not increase blood glucose to the same extent. this study was carried out, therefore, in 1996 at the national nutrition and food technology research institute in tehran to determine the glycemic index of split pease, rice (binam), kidney beans, green peas, “lavash” bread and broad bean kernels. diabetic subjects were studied in a clinica...

BACKGROUND Diabetic patients with concomitant dyslipidemia are often soft targets for cardiovascular disease and deaths. An early intervention to normalize circulating lipids has been shown to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is routinely used as a marker to indicate long-term glycemic control. AIM Our aim was to test whether HbA1c can serve as a ...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has increased rapidly over the past decade. In the Untied States, this increase has been greater than 40%. Obesity, which is closely linked to risk of developing T2DM, has likewise increased in prevalence by more than 60% during the same time period. Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of mortality among patients with T2DM, accounting for ...