OBJECTIVES TO COMPARE CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND HEALTH CARE COSTS ACROSS THREE COHORTS OF UNCONTROLLED DIABETIC PATIENTS WHO INITIATED TREATMENT WITH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: sulphonylureas (SU), thiazolidinediones (TZD) or sitagliptin (SITA). MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective study based on a linkage between administrative and laboratory databases maintained by three Italian local ...

Bariatric surgery is increasingly seen as a treatment option for patient with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and severe complex obesity (SCO). There is however no consensus on how to manage this cohort preoperatively and postoperatively. Patients with T2DM having cardiac surgery benefit from glycaemic optimisation prior to surgery. National Health Service Diabetes in the United Kingdom recommends that ...

Pesticide residues in wine were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Retentions are modelled by structure-property relationships. Bioplastic evolution is an evolutionary perspective conjugating effect of acquired characters and evolutionary indeterminacy-morphological determination-natural selection principles; its application to design co-ordination index barely improves...

Metformin is the first-line oral agent in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and has many established benefits, including the reduction of macrovascular complications of diabetes. Its prescription in patients with renal impairment is limited by concerns relating to the theoretical risk of lactic acidosis, a fear which is perpetuated by numerous case reports in which it is implicated. Critical rev...

1. England JD, Gronseth GS, Franklin G, et al; American Academy of Neurology; American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine; American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Distal symmetric polyneuropathy: a definition for clinical research: report of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the American Academy of Physical Me...

Insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion are reciprocally related such that insulin resistance is adapted by increased insulin secretion to maintain normal glucose and lipid homeostasis. The relation between insulin sensitivity and secretion is curvilinear and mathematically best described as a hyperbolic relation. Several potential mediators have been suggested to be signals for the beta cell...

1 Glibenclamide is a widely used sulphonylurea for the treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). This agent has been reported to inhibit the activities of various ion channels and transporters. In the present study, we examined the effects of glibenclamide on the function of the H+/peptide cotransporters PEPT1 and PEPT2 by using stable transfectants. 2 Uptake of [14C]-glycyl...