background: gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is the most common metabolic complications of pregnancy and causes fetal mortality and morbidity. therefore early diagnosis of gdm is necessary to reduce maternal and fetal morbidity and to help prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes objective: this prospective study was carried out to determine the incidence of gdm in yazd and to assess th...

background: reported data from developed countries showed that annually a high percentage of health budgets consume for controlling and treatment of complications in diabetes disease. early diagnosis of diabetes, education and health cares, not only prevent progress of disease and complications but also it is cost effective. methods: for gestational diabetes screening, all pregnant women attend...

background : this study aimed to compare different body mass index (bmi) categories in individuals with diabetes, prediabetes and normal glucose tolerance among the first degree relatives of type 2 diabetic patients. methods : a cross-sectional study was conducted during 2005-2007 in isfahan, iran. it evaluated 3323 first-degree relatives of diabetic patients selected by consecutive convenient ...

background hypovitaminosis d has been associated with the development of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) in many observational studies. objectives we report the first study of the impact of prenatal vitamin d supplementation on postpartum dysglycemia in gdm patients in a randomized clinical trial. patients and methods women with gdm at 12 - 32 weeks of gestation were assigned randomly to ei...

introduction: repeated hyperglycemia play an important role in the development of atherosclerosis in diabetic patients. endothelium is the organ of the first-line defense against atherosclerosis and nitric oxide has a major role in this task. the aim of this study was to determine changes in plasma nitric oxide metabolites concentration during glucose tolerance test in type 2 diabetic rats. met...