if you are planning on fasting and have diabetes, it is important to speak to your diabetes healthcare team as early as possible before ramadan. for some people with diabetes, fasting can be dangerous or can cause problems to your health. your diabetes team will be able to advise you on whether it is safe for you to fast. if you are able to fast, they will advise you on how to keep good diabete...

introduction: the aim of this study was to determine the prevalences of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes mellitus, impaired fasting glucose (ifg), impaired glucose tolerance (igt), and combined ifg/igt and to develop an effective screening strategy for undiagnosed diabetes in a large urban iranian community. materials and methods: the study population included 9,519 participants of the tehran...

background: diabetes is a worldwide problem nowadays. the present study was designed to assess the productivity of research on diabetes and to evaluate the gap between the burden of diabetes and research on diabetes, in both developed and developing countries. materials and methods: an extensive search in pubmed database for diabetes publications, using diabetes as the mesh term, was carried ou...

a bstra ct   background: all health professionals are responsible for facilitating  mpowerment among people with diabetes. however, research suggests that health professionals do not have the knowledge and skills to help people with diabetes become   emp owered. as a result, many iranian people with diabetes do not become empowered. the aim of the study was to explore and understand how i mpowe...

background: empowerment of people with diabetes means integrating diabetes with identity. however, others’ stigmatization can influence it. although diabetes is so prevalent among iranians, there is little knowledge about diabetes‑related stigma in iran. the present study explored diabetes‑related stigma in people living with type 1 diabetes in isfahan. materials and methods: a conventional con...

background: diabetes education by peer coaching is a strategy which helps the patients with diabetes in the field of behavioral and emotional problems. however, the results of studies in this field in other countries could not be generalized in our context. so, the current study aimed to examine the effectiveness of diabetes education by peer coaching on diabetes management. methods: outcome va...

objective: burden of diabetes is increasing worldwide. national statistics on prevalence of diabetes in afghanistan are insufficient. thus, this study identified the prevalence of diabetes and key risk factors in kabul, afghanistan. materials and methods: totally 1172 records were cleaned for analysis of whom 599 (51.1%) were females and 573 (48.9%) were males with a mean age of 38.6±12.2 years...

background: vitamin d deficiency is common in pregnancy, leading to increase in the frequency of preeclampsia, cesarean delivery, neonatal bacterial vaginosis, and gestational diabetes. the current study was designed and implemented to investigate the effect  of vitamin d during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy in reducing the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) in women who...

background: although gestational diabetes is a well-known cause of pregnancy complications, its epidemiology in iran has not been studied systematically. the aim of this review of published data was to describe epidemiology of gestational diabetes in iran. methods: we searched medline, www.sid.ir, www.magiran.com, www.iranmedex.com, and www.irandoc.ac.ir sites through march 2009, and examined t...

diabetic self-management is important for controlling the diabetes complications and promoting health-related quality of life in these patients. the objective of this study was to examine a hypothetical model regarding influences of sociostructural determinants, collaborative decision-making and patient's beliefs system on diabetes self-management.in a cross-sectional descriptive study from dec...