aim : to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms and signs among persons with diabetes mellitus in a specialist hospital. background : gastrointestinal symptoms and signs are common among patients with diabetes mellitus. morbidity from patients and methods : in this descriptive, cross-sectional study, subjects from the general population with diabetes (n=200) were recruited for th...

diabetes mellitus is a multifactorial disease. it has recently been shown that an insertion (i)/deletion (d) polymorphism exists in the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ace) gene that can affect the serum ace level. there are three genotypes: dd, di, and ii, with the ace level being highest in dd, intermediate in di, and lowest in ii. in the present investigation, 170 patients with type 2 diabete...

The association between diabetes and cognitive impairment is controversial. This systematic review examines the relationship of Cognitive Impairment in people with diabetes mellitus. The incidence of “Cognitive Impairment” was higher in individuals with diabetes than in those without diabetes in nine of ten studies reporting this aggregate outcome. These findings showed an associated between ty...

background: diabetes mellitus (dm) is a health concern which leads to complications such as retinopathy. pakistan has 6.9 million people living with dm and this toll will be doubled by 2025. objective: to determine serum il-6 and il-17 of type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) patients with retinopathy. methods: in this cross-sectional casecontrol study, 212 subjects enrolled which were categorized in...

OBJECTIVES The current study sought to identify macroscopic placental changes associated with clinical conditions in women with or without diabetes and their newborns. METHODS The study population consisted of 62 pregnant women clinically diagnosed with diabetes and 62 healthy women (control group). RESULTS Among the subjects with diabetes, 43 women (69.3%) were diagnosed with gestational d...

autoimmune polyglandular syndrome (aps) type 2 is characterized by the presence of addison's disease, in association with autoimmune thyroid disease and/or type 1 diabetes mellitus. aps type 2 occurs most often in middle aged females and is rare in children. here an 11 year old boy is reported with addison's disease who developed symptom's of diabetes mellitus, goiter, malabsorption, macrocytic...

Background:Type II diabetes mellitus is a public health problem in both developed and developing countries which has increased alarmingly, giving the disease the dimension of an epidemic. The etiology of diabetes is multifactorial involving genetic, environmental, and behavioral origins. The aim of present study was to review the role of exercise and nutrition in type II diabetes mellitus. Meth...

This study knew that comparing type 2 diabetes mellitus and some pro-inflammatory immune factors, IL-6 CRP clarified the higher glucose their relationship in stimulating these factors. Type II mellitus, elevated incidence of disease, IL6 II, absence substrates run on blood glucose.

background: diabetes mellitus is capable of impairing the myocardial function. several studies have documented the influential impact of diabetes mellitus on the left ventricular function. the right ventricular function plays a significant role in the overall myocardial contractility; hence, this study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of diabetes mellitus type ii on the right ventricular f...

abstract diabetes mellitus is one of the major metabolic disorders. diabetes is recognized for severe complications including diabetic nephropathy, neuropathy and retinopathy. long-lasting effect of hyperglycemia results in increased oxidative stress. oxidative stress results from an imbalance between radical-generating and radical scavenging systems. increased oxidative stress has been shown t...