Saito et al. (1) reported that raloxifene (RAL) suppressed bone turnover and increased the quantitative ultrasound (QUS) parameter, speed of sound (SOS) of the calcaneus in hemodialysis postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes or without type 2 diabetes. Baseline bone turnover markers like serum cross-linked N-terminal telopeptides of type I collagen (NTX) and bone-specific alkaline phosphatas...

AIM The purpose of this study was to clarify whether type 2 diabetic patients with coronary disease are subject to similar benefits on heart rate recovery (HRR) as non-diabetic coronary individuals after cardiac rehabilitation, assessing separately male and female subjects separately. METHODS Data used for the analyses were from an eight-week phase II cardiac rehabilitation including 284 pati...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether models that include hemoglobin A(1c) (HbA(1c)) levels only for diabetic patients improve the ability to predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk compared with the currently recommended classification of diabetes as a cardiovascular risk equivalent. METHODS A total of 24 674 women (including 685 diabetic participants at baseline) and 11 280 men (including 563 ...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to compare intrahospital and long-term mortalities after more than 10 years of the follow up after the first acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with patients with and without CDAN and without diabetes mellitus (DM). METHODS The study was based on 76 (43 men and 33 women) with DM type 2, CDAN was detected in 51 patients, and 374 (295 men and 79 women) withou...

Diabetes is a metabolic health disorder and an important risk factor for stroke. Phosphoprotein enriched in astrocytes 15 (PEA-15) is a multifunctional protein modulating cell proliferation, survival, apoptosis and glucose metabolism. This study investigated whether diabetes modulates the expression of PEA-15 and two phosphorylated forms (Ser 104 and Ser 116) in middle cerebral artery occlusion...

Background: Diabetes is the most common cause of pregnancy morbidity, and a sedentary lifestyle family history are contributing factors. Maternal diabetes linked to poor maternal newborn outcomes. The goal this study predict outcomes for both mother fetus in cases pre-existing type 2 during third trimester pregnancy. Methods: A tertiary care facility Central India was studied retrospectively. r...

previous studies have shown that diabetes mellitus (dm) increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in women to a greater extent than in men. it seems that dm may alter lipid profiles more adversely in women compared to men. in this study we evaluated serum lipoprotein differences in type 2 diabetic men and women. the study included 350 type 2 diabetic patients (100 men and 250 women), aged 19...

this is a retrospective study on the records of patients with infarction admitted to c.c.u wards of imam khomeini hospital, amir-alam hospital & shariati hospital, during 7 months (1995-94). in total patients of 209 with average age of 59.5 years, there were 133 men with average age of 57.1 and 76 women with average age of 63.7 years. in this study, women with mi are older than men. from 209 pa...

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...