Serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a well-known tumor marker for colorectal adenocarcinoma. However, CEA levels can be influenced by various nonmalignant conditions. A retrospective, cross-sectional study was performed including 18,131 healthy nonsmokers who underwent health check-ups with evaluation of the serum CEA level. In the training set, multivariate analysis revealed that the log-t...

Pterocarpus marsupium (Family: Leguminoceae) is widely used in ‘Ayurveda’ as ‘Rasayana’ for the management of various metabolic disorders including hyperglycemia. Treatment of diabetic rats with Pterocarpus marsupium methanol extract (PMMtE, 300 mg/kg b.w./day) for 7 and 14 days showed normalization of streptozotocin-distressed serum glucose. At longer duration, PMMtE exerted a protective effec...

Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis on chronic HCVinfected adult patients, monitored at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş”. Patients with diabetes mellitus, chronic alcohol consumption, other chronic liver diseases, HBV or HIV co-infections were excluded. We recorded demographic data, HCV infection history, personal and family history of CVR factors...

OBJECTIVE To monitor of type 2 diabetes more simply, conveniently and noninvasively, we are trying to identify the potential urinary peptides that associated with different stages of glucose control in type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS Firstly, we collected urine samples from type 2 diabetic patients and normal controls. These type 2 diabetic patients were divided into two groups according to...

BACKGROUND Diabetes has been shown to be independent predictor of restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The aim of the present study was to investigate whether a pre- and post-procedural glycaemic control in diabetic patients was related to major advance cardiovascular events (MACE) during follow up. METHODS We evaluated 2884 consecutive patients including 2181 non-diabet...

Objectives This study aimed to analyze changes in hematologic parameters in the residents of the areas highly contaminated by the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill in 2007 and those who participated in the clean-up activities. Methods According to demographic characteristics, health status and behavior, and level of exposure to oil, we compared the hematologic results in 2009 and 2012 among 701 resident...

We welcome the article by Hughes et al. (1) on glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) as a readily available screening tool that the authors propose be used to identify undiagnosed diabetes during the early prenatal period. However, we submit that the low subject participation rate of 23% severely limits the validity of their findings. Data obtained from only 23% of the study participants do not a...

Background: Infants of Diabetic Mothers (IDMs) are at known risk for the development hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Echocardiography is essential diagnosis HCM, to assess left ventricular function, and degree ventricle obstruction, rule out structural cardiac malformations.
 Objective: To study association maternal third-trimester glycemic level with HCM in IDMs.
 Study Design: Ob...

Background: Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammation of periodontal tissues. Several systemic diseases are related to this condition. One the strongest associations that periodontitis and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). On contrary, link with 1 (T1DM) has not been extensively investigated. The objective present report evaluate compare effect two domiciliary oral hygiene protocols on clini...

Objective. To analyze the perioperative nursing methods for patients with hepatobiliary pancreatic diseases combined diabetes mellitus and to evaluate differences in based on a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network. Methods. 80 complicated admitted our hospital from January 2021 2022 were selected as subjects. According different methods, two groups of randomly divided into control group e...