background :many pregnant muslim women choose to fast during ramadan every year worldwide. this study aimed to examine the effect of ramadan fasting on serum leptin, neuropeptide y and insulin in pregnant women and find whether fasting during pregnancy could have a negative effect on the health of mothers and fetuses.   methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted on 39 healthy volunteer ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a socioeconomic burden in Pakistan. International diabetes federation reported 6.9 million cases of diabetes and 87,548 deaths due to diabetes in Pakistan in 2014. Peroxisome proliferators-activated receptors are transcription factors, regulating several physiological processes. AIM The aim of the current study was to determine the prevalence of silent variant C1431T in...

Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is generally through optimizing a balanced diet. Soybeans and sweet potatoes have good antioxidants can be developed as healthy foods for people with diabetes. are processed into Soy-yoghurt. This study aims to determine the potential soy yogurt an antidiabetic in experimental animals, Rattus norvegicus induced by hyperglycemia, using Streptozotocin. used exp...

Introduction: The aim was to assess the effects on lifestyle and lipid profile while fasting during holy month of Ramadan. Material and Methods: An interventional cohort study designed with 160 subjects who were fasting during Ramadan recruited from different mosques in Kermanshah. Data were collected in three stages at the beginning and at the end of Ramadan as well as one month following Rama...

Objectives: This present study was to evaluate the different parameters and correlation of blood sugar HbA1C levels for development retinopathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Methods: A complete assessment, general physical examination routine haematological investigations were performed all fundus done with help direct indirect Ophthalmoscope. Biochemical (Blood Sugar- Fasting Post Pran...

The colorimetric glucose-oxidase and the Somogyi-Nelson reducing-sugar methods yield the same blood-glucose values when applied to carefully prepared zinc hydroxide filtrates of blood obtained from fasting individuals. The anthrone method yields values only slightly higher than those obtained by the enzymic and the reducing-sugar methods. Use of the enzymic method in conjunction with the reduci...

conclusions this study supports the assumption that low glycemic index diet as well as metformin can positively affect metabolic syndrome components. background metabolic syndrome (mets) continues to be highly prevalent and contributes to a rapidly growing problem worldwide. the most important therapeutic intervention for metabolic syndrome is diet modification, an intervention whose efficacy h...

Background: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is one of the causes of disability and death. Levels of Uric acid, blood glucose, and dyslipidemia are the risk factors for the disease, but their role in electrocardiographic changes has not been studied. Based on this, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between some demographic and clinical characteristics with electrocardiographic chang...

background: gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is a form of diabetes that occurs in pregnancy. gdm, defined as glucose intolerance, first diagnosed or initiated during pregnancy affects 1-14% of pregnancies based on various studies. screening and early diagnosis and appropriate glycemic control can improve prenatal outcomes. telephone follow-up seems to be a reasonable way for pregnant women f...