BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Berberis vulgaris (BV) juice consumption on insulin homeostasis, glycemic profiles of patients with benign breast disease (BBD). SUBJECTS/METHODS: This parallel design, triple-blind, randomized and placebo controlled clinical trial was conducted on 85 eligible women diagnosed with BBD who recruited from Nour-Nejat hos...

We investigated whether long-term glimepiride (GP) monotherapy improves insulin resistance and exerts a beneficial effect on beta cell function, as compared with glibenclamide (GC). One hundred Japanese Type 2 diabetic patients were randomly assigned to the GP (n = 50) or the GC (n = 50) group. During a 5-year monitoring period, patients received the indicated SU monotherapy, while changes in S...

BACKGROUND Some previous observations suggest that insulin resistance and glucose metabolism disturbances are frequent complications of chronic kidney disease. However, there are no conclusive studies on other indices of the effectiveness of insulin action in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, including chronically hemodialysed (HD) ones. MATERIAL AND METHODS The groups comprised 33 non...

The glucose level linkages with breast cancer (BC) biomarkers are focused in the article adopting probabilistic modeling a real data set surveyed from 64 BC women and 52 normal along 10 interested study factors. It is derived that mean levels over for (P=0.02224) than normal. Mean inversely linked insulin (P< 0.00001), interaction effects of leptin adiponectin (leptin*adiponectin) (P=0.08834...

INTRODUCTION Hypertension often coexists with obesity. Adipokines, ghrelin and insulin play important roles in the pathogenesis of both diseases. The aim of this study was to compare adiponectin, leptin, resistin, insulin and ghrelin mean serum concentrations and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in normo- and hypertensive patients with obesity. MATERIAL AND METHODS ALL INCLUDED PATIENTS WERE DIVI...

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...

OBJECTIVE We examined the determinants of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and type 2 diabetes in first-degree relatives of African-American type 2 diabetic patients over 5-8 years (median 6). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 81 healthy subjects (age 41.5 +/- 4.8 years; BMI 31.3 +/- 3.6 kg/m(2)) participated in the study. Each subject underwent an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and ...

This study examined whether circulating levels of soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE) alter in prediabetes and correlate with insulin resistance (IR) and beta cell function in prediabetes and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Subjects without previous history of diabetes were recruited and grouped as control, prediabetes, and newly diagnosed T2DM. The con...

OBJECTIVE Methods to assess beta-cell function in clinical studies are limited. The aim of the current study was to compare a direct measure of insulin secretion with fasting surrogate markers in relation to glucose tolerance status. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In 1,380 individuals from the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study, beta-cell function was assessed using a frequently sampled in...