Glycosylated hemoglobin and protein were measured in maternal and cord blood of 24 normal, 19 class A, and ten insulin-treated diabetics using an affinity chromatographic technique. Maternal (intrapartum) glycohemoglobin and glycoprotein levels in the diabetics were not significantly different from those in normal controls, suggesting "tight" metabolic control in these patients. Compared with c...

The aims of this study are to describe the mean values of carotid intima-media thickness and how it increases with age, and to compare carotid injury in diabetics and hypertensive patients with that of controls. We included 562 subjects (121 diabetics, 352 hypertensive patients, 89 controls). The mean intima-media thickness was 0.781 mm in diabetics, 0.738 mm in hypertensive patients and 0.686 ...

The frequency with which diabetes mellitus was mentioned on the death certificates of 18,733 patients dying from bladder cancer has been compared with that of 19,709 patients dying from other cancers (excluding cancer of the lung and pancreas). The estimated relative risk of bladder cancer in diabetics was 0-98 with 95% confidence limits 0-70-1-38. There was no increase in risk of bladder cance...

In patients without a history of diabetes mellitus, increased levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) are associated with higher cardiovascular risk. The relation between undetected diabetes and clinical outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention is unknown. To investigate whether these patients may have an increased risk of periprocedural myocardial infarction (PMI), the most frequent adve...

OBJECTIVES To describe the baseline characteristics and management of patients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM) hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to assess the influence of DM on hospital outcomes and hospital mortality. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We analyzed data from a 6-month observational study (Kuwait Acute Coronary Syndrome Registry) of unselected patients admitte...

BACKGROUND Body weight, body mass index, fibrinogen concentration and relative plasma viscosity can contribute to the development of hypertension in diabetics. This study compares body weight, body mass index, fibrinogen concentration and relative plasma viscosity between hypertensive diabetics, normotensive diabetics and healthy controls. METHODS The present study was carried out on normoten...

OBJECTIVE To compare the visual outcomes of phacoemulsification surgery with intraocular lens (IOL) in persons with and without diabetes at end of follow-up. METHODS This was a comparative, cross sectional, observational study with Non-probability, purposive sampling. After approval from "Research Ethical Committee of Isra Post-graduate Institute of Ophthalmology Karachi, 92 patients with cat...

Transient electromagnetic fields (dirty electricity), in the kilohertz range on electrical wiring, may be contributing to elevated blood sugar levels among diabetics and pre-diabetics. By closely following plasma glucose levels in four Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics, we find that they responded directly to the amount of dirty electricity in their environment. In an electromagnetically clean enviro...

Background: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has become a major health problem worldwide. American Diabetes Association has considered HbA1C levels ≤ 6.5 % as the prime target for glycemic control and as a diagnostic criterion for DM. Anemia is common in DM (8-66%). Studies on alteration of HbA1C in IDA have conflicting results. Objectives: To identify and compare the effect of IDA on HbA1C levels among ...

Objective: To study the level of serum alkaline phosphatase in diabetic patients with periodantitis and compare to control group. Material and Methods: This study was carried out in Pathology Department Gomal Medical College Dera Ismail Khan, from Jan. 2006 to June 2007. Subjects of type-2 diabetes mellitus having periodontitis (group A), diabetics without periodontitis (group B), non-diabetics...