Gestational diabetes mellitus is defined as carbohydrate intolerance of variable severity with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. It has been shown that the risk of adverse maternal, foetal, and neonatal outcomes in gestational diabetes mellitus is related to the degree of glucose intolerance and/or hyperglycaemia; gestational diabetes mellitus also has long-term sequelae for both the...

background: diabetes mellitus is a serious public health problem worldwide and particularly in developing countries. in algeria, this metabolic disorder occurs with a wide variety or atypical forms that linked to multiple risk factors including local habits and traditions. this study aimed to determine the impact of risk factors (metabolic syndrome, social, cultural, physical activity, family h...

patients and methods we extracted the demographic characteristics of 110 women with gdm who had delivered during 2004 - 2010 in three main hospitals of zanjan city, iran. the patients were recalled to perform oral glucose tolerance test (ogtt) and other necessary tests for mets diagnosis. anthropometric measurements were recorded of all the participants. results in this study, 110 women with a ...

The incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its complications are increasing. Like other complications, most of the diabetes patients have gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms but in majority of cases GI complications are under diagnosed and not treated properly, resulting in impairment of the quality of daily life. GI system including liver and pancreas are involved in diabetes mellitus. ...

in an attempt to determine the clinical value of frnctosamine assay for monitoring type ii diabetic patients, correlation of frnctosamine with glycosylated hemoglobin was studied. 100 patients with type ii diabetes mcllitus were compared with 100 normal subjects. fasting blood glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, albumin and frnctosamine were measured in alt subjects. in the diabetic patients, a s...

to achieve tight glycemic control in diabetic patients, it may be necessary to introduce insulin therapy much earlier in the disease course. poor glycemic control is a risk factor for the development of diabetic complications. many patients require insulin therapy after several years of disease in order to maintain good glycemic control and prevent complications. but many patients do not receiv...

hand ischemia is a rare complication of diabetes and some other chronic vascular diseases. critical hand ischemia causes painful limbs and disability and requires urgent revascularization. there have been a few reports of successful trans-brachial percutaneous angioplasty in the upper extremity in the radial or ulnar artery. herein, we report the results of the endovascular treatment of a 68-ye...

background: among the non-communicable diseases, diabetes mellitus has an important ranking and with annually increasing rate where it is expected the number of people suffering from the disease will reach to 300 million up to 2025 in all of world. the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in iran is 4-4.5% and in population aged above 30 years is greater than 14%. the present study is attempting to fi...

background: the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (dm) is increasing, and thus, its mental consequences, such as depression, have an increasing trend. the goal of the present study was the determination of the prevalence of depression and some of its related factors in patients with type ii dm who referred to the diabetes center of rafsanjan, iran, in the year 2016. materials and methods: for thi...

objective:fasting plasma glucose (fpg) analysis is the most importantmethod for detection and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. due to difficulty and problems of this method for determination of glycemia in diabetic patients, recently the use of fasting salivary glucoseas a simple and non-invasive method to evaluate fpghas came into significant considerationof specialists. the aim of this study w...