objective(s):to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the contributions of gst genetic variants to the risk of diabetic retinopathy in an iranian population. therefore, the objective of this study was to determine whether sequence variation in glutathione s-transferase gene (gstm1 and gstt1) is associated with development of diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2d...

Diabetes mellitus is associated with a distinct cardiomyopathy. Whether cardiac myofilament function is altered in human diabetes mellitus is unknown. Myocardial biopsies were obtained from seven diabetic patients and five control, nondiabetic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Myofilament function was assessed by determination of the developed force-Ca2+ concentration relation...

hand ischemia is a rare complication of diabetes and some other chronic vascular diseases. critical hand ischemia causes painful limbs and disability and requires urgent revascularization. there have been a few reports of successful trans-brachial percutaneous angioplasty in the upper extremity in the radial or ulnar artery. herein, we report the results of the endovascular treatment of a 68-ye...

background: diabetes mellitus is capable of impairing the myocardial function. several studies have documented the influential impact of diabetes mellitus on the left ventricular function. the right ventricular function plays a significant role in the overall myocardial contractility; hence, this study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of diabetes mellitus type ii on the right ventricular f...

abstract background: an association of eating disorder with diabetes mellitus may lead to a serious lack of metabolic control, higher mortality and morbidity. there is no recent study conducted in the iranian population about eating disorder and its variants. the aim of the present study is investigation of frequency of disturbed eating behaviors in adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes mellitu...

Objective: Lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LSCS) has prominent position in spinal disorders of the elderly. Ligamentum flavum hypertrophy plays a dominant role in narrowing of the LSCS. There are some clues that Ligamentum flavum hypertrophy is associated with diabetes mellitus. Our objective was comparison of histological properties of ligamentum flavum in Lumbar spinal canal stenosis patients w...

T HE MANAGEMENT OF diabetes poses challenges at all levels, from affected individuals to society as a whole. Microvascular complications of diabetes have been attributed to poor glycemic control since the Joslin era. This hypothesis was confirmed for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus by the results of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and for patients with type 2 diabetes mellit...

Context Multiple consensus statements decree that women with diabetes mellitus should have comparable birth outcomes to women without diabetes mellitus; however, there is a scarcity of contemporary population-based studies on this issue. Objective To examine temporal trends in obstetric interventions and perinatal outcomes in a population-based cohort of women with type 1, type 2, or gestatio...