background osteoporosis and chronic kidney disease are common conditions in older adults, and often occur concurrently. bone disease is caused by increased bone turnover accompanying secondary hyperparathyroidism, and by factors such as bone metabolic disorder accompanying kidney disease and postmenopausal or age-related osteoporosis, even in hemodialysis patients. raloxifene is commonly used f...

background diabetes mellitus as a chronic metabolic disease occurs in patients with partial or complete deficiency of insulin secretion or disorder in action of insulin on tissue. the disease is known to provide conditions for overgrowth of candida species. candida spp. cause candidiasis by many virulence factors such as esterase, hemolysin and phospholipase. objectives this study aimed to comp...

introduction: diabetes mellitus and osteoporosis are two frequent medical conditions with an increasing prevalence in elderly. this study is conducted to evaluate osteoporosis in postmenopausal females with type 2 diabetes mellitus in sanandaj, the provincial center of kurdistan province in the west of iran. methods: from an initial population of 2500 women with type 2 diabetes, 242 postmenopau...

background: one of negative and influential factor to chronic diseases is creation of sexual problems in the couple's sexual relationship. sexual health is one of the most important factor in sexual and marital satisfaction. objective: this study aims to compare the relationship between couple burnout, sexual assertiveness, and sexual dysfunctional beliefs in women with diabetic and non-diabeti...

Background. Diabetic patients are at the greater risk of retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, and sexual dysfunction compared to the general population. Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sexual dysfunction in type 2 diabetes reproductive age women in Iran. Method. This was a case-control study carried out on 130 women with type 2 diabetes and 130 healthy women. The type 2 di...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a powerful independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among hypertensive patients. Data regarding relationships between diabetes and LVH are controversial and inconclusive, whereas possible gender differences were not specifically investigated. The goal of this work was to investigate whether gender differences in left hea...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality among the diabetic population and is substantially increased in the presence of hypertension.[1] Over the past decades advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of CVD, leading to decreased mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) among non-diabetic men and women as well as among diabetic men.[2] However,...

INTRODUCTION Diabetic nephropathy is the most prevalent cause of end-stage renal disease. Besides factors such as angiotensin II, cytokines, and vascular endothelial growth factor, uric acid may play a role as the underlying cause of diabetic nephropathy. We evaluated allopurinol effects on proteinuria in diabetic patients with nephropathy. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a double-blinded randomized...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the extent of primary and secondary coronary heart disease (CHD) prevention in older British men and women differs between patients with and without diabetes. DESIGN Two prospective cardiovascular cohort studies. SETTING 24 British towns. PATIENTS 4252 men and 4286 women aged 60-79 years examined between 1998 and 2001. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Use of aspirin, st...

OBJECTIVE Alterations in maternal lipid metabolism could affect fetal programming and the susceptibility for atherosclerosis in the offspring; therefore, we studied differences in lipid profiles of pregnant women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 173 diabetic pregnancies were studied prior to conception (V0), at each trimester (V1-V3), and after delivery ...