In 1919 Fosse (6) showed that urea is formed by the oxidation of solutions containing such amounts of glucose and ammonia as are present in the blood. Recently Hynd (9) found that “A 2 per cent solution of glucose containing approximately 60 mg. NH3 showed no optical change at room temperature, but after 24 hours at 50” the rotation fell from +0.87” to +0.29” . . . . Similar results were obtain...

rheumatoid arthritis (ra) patients are vulnerable to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in which atherosclerosis plays a major role. in this study, the lipid profile and fasting blood sugar (fbs) of ra patients receiving a complementary medicine of olive and fig, as add-on therapy for routine disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (dmards) regimen containing low dose methotrexate (mtx), were...

abstract background: vitamin d supplementation has been shown to decrease insulin resistance through which it might cause fatty liver. fatty liver increasingly results in type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm). insulin resistance and fatty liver are particularly closely related. the aim of present study is to examine the effect of vitamin d supplementation on blood sugar and different indices of insul...

abstract objective: prevalence of tooth loss is higher among diabetic patients in comparison with non-diabetic patients. the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the relationship between socket blood sugar and post-extraction complications in type ii diabetic and non-diabetic patients. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 80 diabetic and 80 non-diabetic ...

objective: herbal medicine and medical plants such as ziziphus jujuba are widely used in the treatment of diseases such as diabetes mellitus. we investigated the effects of ethanol extracts of ziziphus jujuba fruit on serum glucose, triglycerides, ldl-cholesterol, hdl-cholesterol, cholesterol and activities of aminotransferase enzymes in streptozocin-induced diabetic adult male rats. materials ...