Diabetic foot ulcer is among the commonest complications of diabetic mellitus, attributing to a significant number morbidity and mortality in patients, enormous economic loss families country.

background: in view of the current high prevalence of diabetes mellitus (dm) and osteoporosis, today there is great inter est in studying the possible association between these two disorders. the aim of this study was to determine the association be tween type-2 dm, and bone mineral density (bmd) in iranian women. methods: bmd was determined in the femoral neck and at the l2-l4 level (dexa) 0f ...

conclusions the data indicated that co-administration of grape seed extract and exercise training had more significant effects than exercise training or grape seed extract alone; this may constitute a convenient and inexpensive therapeutic approach to diabetic vascular complications. results the endothelium dependent vasorelaxation to acetylcholine was reduced significantly in diabetic animals;...

background: there is a relationship between dental caries and high blood sugar. this study was designed to investigate the prevalence of dental caries among diabetic children in isfahan, iran. methods: diabetic children from pediatric ward of hospitals were compared to a control healthy group of children. results: the mean dmft was significantly higher in diabetic children compared to the contr...

objective: atorvastatin has the pleiotropic effects, including anti-inflammation and antioxidant. therefore, this study considered to examine the effects of atorvastatin on nf-қb expression, as a main transcription factor for expression of inflammatory cytokines, in hyperglycemia-induced nephropathy in rat. materials and methods: twenty four male wistar rats were randomly divided into four grou...

due to the range of its constituents, colostrum has been considered as a supplement for various diverse purposes. this study was conducted to examine the effect of supplementary bovine colostrum on serum malondialdehyde (mda), antioxidant activity (aoa) and glucose in a diabetic rodent model. sixty male wistar rats were divided into 10 groups of six rats each for 40 days as follows: non-diabeti...

conclusions in conclusion, the ace and pparg genes do not have a key role in conferring risk for diabetic nephropathy. results ace id genotypes followed hardy-weinberg equilibrium in both cases and controls. but p12a genotypes deviated from hardy-weinberg equilibrium in diabetic controls. chi2 test was applied for the analysis of genotypic distributions in genotypic and dominant models. odds ra...

Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an important cause of decreased visual acuity, whose prevalence has increased between 1990 and 2020. In Chile the diabetic was estimated at 24.8%.

a 35 year old diver comes to your office. he had hyperglycemia in his last check up. he asks if he can steel dive in spite of hyperglycemia. we reviewed the recent studies about diabetic persons who dive. recent studies have shown that well controlled diabetic persons may be permitted to dive, but if they have any problem such as diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy, neurological and cardiac probl...