in the present study, we examined the relationship between family history of cardiovascular diseases (cvd), dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes with laboratorial abnormalities and syndromes in iranian patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld). a total of 332 nafld patients from our outpatient clinic were consecutively entered into analysis. exclusion criteria were having diab...

conclusions the amount and intensity of physical activity during pregnancy is associated with a lower risk of gestational diabetes mellitus. as a result, the pregnant iranian females have to be encouraged to do regular daily physical activity during pregnancy, if there is no specific contraindication to it. results females who had low total physical activity according to the pregnancy physical ...

abstract introduction: in recent years, many studies employed and found an association between type 2 diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer. although increased risk of colorectal cancer in individuals with non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (niddm) has been observed in previous studies, limited information is available on the colorectal cancer associated with niddm in iran. the purpose o...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Guidelines advocate anticoagulant treatment to all patients with atrial fibrillation and concomitant diabetes mellitus. The potential refinement to thromboembolic risk stratification that may spring from subdividing diabetes mellitus is unexplored. The purpose was to investigate duration of diabetes mellitus as a predictor of thromboembolism and anticoagulant-related blee...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Knowledge about predictors of health-related quality of life for multimorbid patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in primary care could help to improve quality and patient-centeredness of care in this specific group of patients. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of several patient characteristics on health-related quality of life of multimorbid...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION To estimate the prevalence and clinical profile of diabetes mellitus in productive aged urban Indonesians based on the National Basic Health Research 2007. MATERIALS AND METHODS The statistical analyses of a cross-sectional survey included the data of 15,332 adults, aged 18-55 years, living in an urban area. Blood glucose was measured by an automatic clinical chemistry analy...

background: the clinical symptoms of diabetes mellitus in oral cavity are xerostomia, pathological changes in periodontal tis­sues and caries. it has been suggested that the determination of salvia`s components in diabetic patients may be useful in de­scribing and further understanding the oral findings in this condition. the aim of this study was to detect differences be­tween the salivary alb...

Diabetes mellitus was thought to be rare in Africans up to the 1930’s and even up to the sixties in some countries [1]. However, subsequent hospital-based observations have confirmed that it is not uncommon. Both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are seen, the latter being much more common. More recently, an apparent increase in the incidence of Type 2 has been observed in association with the adoptio...

the purpose of this survey was the study of the occurrence of anxiety and depression symptoms in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with regard to sex and body mass index (bmi). 333 individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus participated in the study. their demographic and clinical features were examined. the self–completed questionnaire ηads was used for anxiety and depression level evaluat...