introduction: diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder of the endocrine system leading to increased blood glucose concentration in the patients. as a basic treatment for managing the blood glucose level, insulin or hypoglycemic medications are used but herbal medicines are more favored. the design of this research project was to study the therapeutic effect of hydroalcoholic extract of melissa...

background: control of blood sugar, hypertension, and dyslipidemia are key factors in diabetes management. cucurbita ficifolia (pumpkin) is a vegetable which has been used traditionally as a remedy for diabetes in iran. in addition, consumption of probiotics may have beneficial effects on people with type 2 diabetes. the aim of this study was an investigation of the effects of c. ficifolia and ...

introduction: spirituality is taken deeply into consideration as a part of health because of its role in the control of chronic diseases and its importance in determination of life purpose in the elderly. this study aimed to investigate the association between spiritual health and blood sugar control in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on ...

There are many studies on change in blood sugar level after intravenous administration of glucose (Tunbridge & Allibone, 1940; Greville, 1943; Nonobe, 1952), and the majority of them support the conclusion that blood sugar level decreases in the way of monomolecular reaction (Fishberg, 1930), that is, the change is represented by an exponential curve expressed by a formula log y=-kt+c (y, blood...

Dry socket/alveolar osteitis is a detrimental and excruciatingly painful post-extraction condition of the socket caused by breakdown clot leading to denudation that exposes underlying bone not protected blood or healing tissue persists within around alveolus for days after surgical tooth extraction with without halitosis suppuration. It inevitable dry will develop during routine oral surgery de...

E VIDENCE has been presented by various investigators that smoking of cigarettes causes transient hyperglycemia in human beings. Haggard and Greenberg,l Caponnette,2 Tbppner,3 Burstein and Goldenberg,4 and Lundberg and Thyselius-Lundberg5 found in nondiabetic habitual smokers an increase in the level of the fasting blood sugar after smoking and a similar effect was produced by intramuscular inj...

Gobell (1) showed that 100 mg. of nicotinamide injected intravenously into children produced regularly a fall in the blood sugar level, averaging 21.3 mg. per cent. The hypoglycemic action of nicotinic acid was also observed in normal human adults by Marche and Delbarre (2), PoumeauDelille and Fabiani (3), and Neuwahl (4). In experiments with animals Ledrut (5) observed a marked decrease in the...

Background: Various physiological parameters like blood pressure, temperature, blood sugar after onset of stroke have been proposed as possible marker of stroke prognosis. Objective: To study the glycaemic status after acute stroke and assess the role of glycaemic status along with other clinical parameters in influencing stroke outcome. Method: Forty-two confirmed stroke patients attending hos...

objectives: inflammation is a common complication in patients treated with hemodialysis and increasing in inflammatory factors such as c-reactive protein (crp) is associated with increased cardiovascular disease and mortality in these patients. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of oral l- carnitine supplementation on serum crp concentration and fasting blood sugar (fbs) in...