OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to estimate glycosylated hemoglobin, fasting blood sugar and lipid profile in patients with premature grayness of hair. METHODS This study was carried out from October 1999 and May 2000, at the Dermatology and Venereology Outpatient Clinic of Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Iraq. Sixty patients with premature grayness of hair and 20 healthy individuals were inc...

Lysosomal enzymes acid phosphatase show increase in diabetes mellitus and this is closely related to diabetic metabolic alterations. This was a crosssectional study conducted on 50 diabetic subjects (25 patients with complications and 25 patients without complications) in RIMS hospital during the period from September 2010 to August 2012. Twenty five age and sex matched healthy individual were ...

OBJECTIVE Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders in women. Metformin is a biguanide commonly used to improve PCOS symptoms. Effect of metformin on the levels of serum homocysteine (Hcy) in PCOS women is unclear. The aim of this study is evaluating the effect of metformin administration on serum Hcy levels and metabolic parameters of PCOS patients. MATER...

Background: Drinking water is the most important cause of poisoning in the world. Iran is one of the countries with arsenic-contaminated water upper limit of normal. In this study, we decided to determine the effects of chronic arsenic poisoning on demographic, clinical and laboratory features of people. Methods: This descriptive-sectional study carried out on all people resided in Shahidabad ...

Objective(s) The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Ramadan fasting and weight-lifting training on plasma volume, glucose, and lipids profile of male weight-lifter. Materials and Methods Forty male weight-lifters were recruited and divided into 4 groups (n=10 each) and as the following groups: control (C), fasting (F), training (T) and fasting-training (F-T). The T an...

Five hundred and seven elderly hypertensive patients were followed for 1 year, 371 for 2 years and 270 for 3 years in a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial in which they received either placebo or 25-50 mg hydrochlorothiazide and 50-100 mg of triamterene daily. One third of the active treatment group also received 250 mg to 2 g methyldopa daily. After 1 year the active treatment group ha...

abstract   background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic training with and without drug modification on some blood metabolites and substrates in women with type 2 diabetes. methods: forty-nine women with type 2 diabetes were randomly divided into four groups as following: training-full drug, training-half drug, no training-full drug, and no training-half drug. ...

Insulin induced hypoglycaemia produced migrainous symptoms in only two of 20 migraine sufferers and in none of a matched control group. The relationship of fasting and blood sugar levels to migraine attacks is discussed.