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...

background: type ii diabetes is the most prevalent disease with numerous complications. adherence to treatment is an effective role on promoting health outcomes. this study aimed to assess the cognitive adaptation in treatment adherence and its relative factors in coping with disease among type ii diabetic patients. methods: this was a cross-sectional study which was conducted in 2012. study po...

b a ckground: the objective was to investigate the relationship between serum interleukin-18 (il-18), pentraxin 3 (ptx3), and high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-crp) levels with body mass index (bmi) and abdominal obesity and also the interaction between genetic variants of apolipoprotein a-ii (apo a-ii) and obesity on the levels of these factors in type 2 diabetes patients (t2d). m ethods...

background: nutritional education is a necessity in diabetic patients to better control of the disease. the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of educational programs to promote nutritional knowledge in type ii diabetes patients using the health belief model (hbm). methods: this was a quasi-experimental study which was performed among type ii diabetic patients referred to rura...

Apoptosis is a complex network of biochemical and molecular pathway with fine regulatory mechanisms that control the death event during several pathological situations in multi cellular organisms. It is the part of normal development that occurs in a variety of diseases and is known as aberrant apoptosis. Pancreatic β cell apoptosis is also a pathological feature which is common in both type 1 ...

objective: social determinant of health (sdh) are different from medical care and services. these factors themselves are affected by social policies, and they influence health more than medical care and services do. due to the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases especially diabetes in yazd, and assuming the effect of sdh, the present study was conducted in order to examine the relat...

purpose: to evaluate color vision in patients with type ii diabetes mellitus without diabetic retinopathy and compare the results with those of age- and sex- matched normal individuals. methods: this descriptive, comparative study was conducted on 100 diabetic patients without any sign of retinopathy and 100 age- and sex-matched normal subjects. color vision was evaluated using ishihara and far...

introduction:diabetes is a significant and expensive health problem which had influenced all the ages in almost all the countries. increasing prevalence of this disease has been caused by continued changes in lifestyle such as unsuitable nutrition, lack of physical activities and fatness which is often related to modern city life, mechanization and industrialization. it is an expensive disease,...

introduction: it seems that improvement in care and new treatment and screening methods along with better control of diabetes mellitus (dm) has led to a change in incidence of diabetic complications, especially diabetic retinopathy .this study was performed to assess the 4 years incidence rate of diabetic retinopathy in patients with type ii diabetes and factors affecting its progression. metho...