Introduction: Hearing defects can cause inconvenience in communication which have prodigious impact on the psychological, social and emotional functions. The increasing incidence of diabetes profound effect hearing loss quality life mandates need to study possible association between two. Materials method: An observational was conducted including 100 participants such that 50 were non-diabetic ...

diabetes mellitus (dm) is a major public health problem. objective of current study was to know the demography, clinical characteristics and etiology of youth diabetes mellitus (dm) in kashmir, north india. methods: a prospective hospital based study, carried out in the department of endocrinology, skims srinagar, kashmir india over the period from 2008 july - september 2010. setting: a teachin...

BACKGROUND Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus are at increased risk for the development of atherosclerosis. A pivotal event in the development of atherosclerosis is macrophage foam cell formation. The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters ABCA1 and ABCG1 regulate macrophage cholesterol efflux and hence play a vital role in macrophage foam cell formation. We have previously found that chro...