The authors studied a 53 year old woman and her 22 year old son with episodes of paroxysmal muscle cramps and dark urines lasting several hours related to high fat diet and strenuous physical exercise beginning on both at age 14 years. The father, paternal uncle, paternal grandfather and another son of the mother also had paroxysmal muscle cramps. The two studied cases showed normal findings fo...

BACKGROUND This study was aimed to evaluate the protective effects of a novel anti-hyperglycemic "Mcy protein" isolated from the fruits of Momordica cymbalaria in streptozotocin induced- diabetes rat model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Wild type and Streptozotocin induced diabetic male wistar albino rats were either treated with single intraperitoneal injection of 2.5 mg Mcy protein/kg body weight o...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Elevated levels of c-reactive protein (CRP) are known to be associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in adults. A substantial prevalence of hyperinsulinaemia and elevated CRP levels have been shown in Indian young adults. We therefore studied the association of serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) with fasting insulin and insulin resistance...

Our objective was to examine whether habitual green tea consumption is associated with blood glucose levels and other biomarkers of glucose metabolism. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 35 male volunteers, 23-63 years old and residing in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. Biochemical data were measured and we conducted a questionnaire survey on health, lifestyle, and nutrition, as well as freq...

Background: Osteoporosis is one of the prevalent diseases post-Menopausal women. Hence to evaluate severity osteoporosis serum calcium, ALP and urinary hydroxyproline used as bone resorption marker.Method: 30 post-menopausal women with were compared healthy pre-menopausal 25-40 years Random Blood sample collected from venipuncture centrifuged get serum. Fasting Urine was 1.2 drops 6 N HCI added...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common, chronic, metabolic syndrome characterized by hyperglycemia as cardinal biochemical feature. The aim of study to the lipid profile changes in Type 1 DM Erbil City pediatrics aged 6 18 years. Method: All cases type diabetes – years who attended Diabetic Association Center Governorate during period were enrolled this and 52 (27 males 25 female). A ...

background: in 2-4% of couples in fertile ages, recurrent pregnancy loss (rpl) occurs which consisted one out of 300 pregnancies. the aim of this study was to comparison insulin resistance (ir) in patients with rpl to normal individuals. materials and methods: in a case-controlled, prospective study, 49 non-pregnant, non-diabetic women with early rpl as the case group and 49 non-pregnant, non-d...

Liver-specific PEPCK knockout mice, which are viable despite markedly abnormal lipid metabolism, exhibit mild hyperglycemia in response to fasting. We used isotopic tracer methods, biochemical measurements, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to show that in mice lacking hepatic PEPCK, 1) whole-body glucose turnover is only slightly decreased; 2) whole-body gluconeogenesis from phosphoe...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence and the individual components of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in Jordanian adults. METHODS In this cross sectional study, 630 adult subjects (308 men and 322 women) aged between 20-70 years were recruited from the clinics at the King Hussein Medical Center. The diagnosis of MetS was made according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) criteria-2005. ...