BACKGROUND Limited financial and geographic access to primary care can adversely influence chronic disease outcomes. We examined variation in awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia according to both geographic and financial access to care. METHODS We analyzed data on 17,458 participants in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (RE...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to investigate the effect that detection of chronic disease via health screening programs has on health behaviors, particularly smoking. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed national health insurance data from 2007 and 2009. Subjects who were 40 years of age in 2007 and eligible for the life cycle-based national health screening program were included. The total s...

OBJECTIVE To report on the causes of admissions of diabetic patients to the medical unit of King Abdulaziz University Hospital, mortality and risk factors, associated with high mortality, and to find out possible ways to reduce admissions, cost and mortality. METHODS Retrospective analysis of diabetic admissions to the medical unit of King Abdulaziz University Hospital between January 1996 to...

OBJECTIVE To explore and discuss the correlation between osteoporosis and the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 1240 patients, who were hospitalized in our hospital from January 2012 to January 2017, with the age ≥ 65 years old, were selected. All the patients were divided into osteoporosis group and normal bone mass group according to the...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus epidemic and pandemic is the greatest challenge for humanity at beginning of 21st century. Although, after 1984, civilization experienced this epidemiological phenomenon through HIV AIDS, atypical pneumonia, swine flu, bird SARS-CoV-1, infections give way century to chronic, non-infectious diseases. COVID-19 disease a systemic affecting whole body all its organs functions c...

Fyfe, W. M., Hall, Margaret S., and Scott, Janet W. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 84 Lipaemia retinalis in untreated diabetes mellitus. A 6-year-old girl developed diabetes mellitus, with marked hyperlipaemia and lipaemic retinalis, both of which rapidly cleared after insulin treatment. Biochemical studies led to the conclusion that dietary fat was the chief source of the excess...

Oxidative stress and overwhelming free radicals associated with diabetes mellitus are likely to be linked with development of certain complication such as retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. Treatment of diabetic subjects with antioxidant may be of advantage in attenuating these complications. Olive leaf (Oleaeuropaea), has been endowed with many beneficial and health promoting properties ...

Diabetes is a life-threatening disease, and currently available synthetic medicines for treating diabetes are associated with various side effects. Therefore, there an unmet need to develop herbal remedies against as alternative medicines. Although local healers use the roots of Spermadicyton suaveolens (SS) manage diabetes, negligible research validate its antidiabetic properties. The present ...

Based on etiology, diabetes is classified as type 1 diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes mellitus, latent autoimmune diabetes, maturity-onset diabetes of youth, and miscellaneous causes. The diagnosis is based on measurement of A1C level, fasting or random blood glucose level, or oral glucose tolerance testing. Although there are conflicting guidelines, most agree that patients with hypertension ...