INTRODUCTION Herbs are rich sources of natural antioxidants, and are used in traditional medicine for the control and treatment of many diseases. The reducing effect of a large number of these plants on blood glucose has been approved in animal models and clinical studies. OBJECTIVES This study was therefore, performed to investigate the hypoglycemic effect of Salvia officinalis on blood gluc...

Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C) level is a commonly used laboratory investigation in diabetes patients, which reflects glycemic control over a period of 3 months. In various instances, HbA1C levels may be falsely low leading to suboptimal management of diabetes. One such example is the use of dapsone, which is an antibiotic, commonly used to treat various conditions such as leprosy, acne, ulcer...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and factors associated with hypomagnesaemia in hypokalemic type-2 diabetic patients presenting at Civil Hospital, Karachi. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Medicine and Diabetic Clinic of Civil Hospital and Dow Medical College, Karachi, from November 2010 to May 2011. METHODOLOGY A total of 358 adult type-...

conclusions according to the results, hearing impairment in high frequency sounds was more common in the diabetics than the healthy individuals. also, the severity of hearing loss in patients with diabetes was associated with the levels of creatinine (diabetic nephropathy). the hypothesis of the relationship between diabetes and hearing loss through nephropathy should be more examined in future...

objective: diabetes mellitus (dm) is a common metabolic. one of the unknown complications of dm is cognitive disorders. different types of cognitive impairment caused by dm may affect the quality of life, self-management of diabetes, and glycosylated hemoglobin. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of cognitive impairment and its relationship with glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c), diabet...

By at least 1 indicator, the diabetes fight is becoming worse. The percentage of people with diabetes who achieved a glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level <7.0% actually declined from 2003-2006 to 2007-2010 (57.0% vs 52.5%, respectively).

Our aim was to evaluate oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus by the measurement of biophysical parameters (changes) of hemoglobin macromolecule and some biochemical parameters on two groups of diabetic patients, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), and insulindependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). This study has been conducted on 45 NIDDM, 30 IDDM, compared to 20 healthy subjects. Blo...

Abstract Background Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c; glycosylated hemoglobin) is used for diagnosis and monitoring of patients with diabetes. In the clinical laboratory both immunoassays high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) based tests are available such measurement. We use Premier Hb9210 analyzer (HPLC method; Trinity Biotech, Jamestown, NY) measuring HBA1c in whole blood. As our transitioning ...

Type2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is prevalent in a majority of population in India and approximately 30-35% of Indian populations are living with this syndrome. Many previous studies have linked Uric Acid (UA) to DM and some associations have been found out between them. As glycosylated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) is now routinely used to monitor diabetic control, this study was undertaken to find out if ...