BACKGROUND Methanol poisoning is one of the most important poisoning due to drinking of illegal and non-standard alcoholic beverage in some countries. Relatively limited studies have been carried out to identify the prognostic factors in methanol poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective study on acute methanol-intoxicated patients, which were admitted on the Loghman Hakim...

Stress hyperglycemia represents increased blood glucose level that is result of activation of neurohormonal processes in organism exposed to stress. The aim of the paper is to analyze literature data on prognostic implications of admission hyperglycaemia in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Retrospective study included 543 patients with AMI hospitalised in Department for cardiova...

conclusions these findings indicate that rehydration with honey drink improves running performance and glucose metabolism compared to plain water in the heat. thus, honey drink can be recommended for rehydration purpose for athletes who compete in the heat. results running distance in run-2 covered by the subjects in the honey drink hd trial (3420 ± 350 m) was significantly (p < 0.01) longer co...

abstract background and objective: diabetes mellitus is one of complications that thalassemia major patients face with. hence, blood glucose monitoring is of vital importance to these patients. because of high level of fetal hemoglobin in these patients, the measurement of hemoglobin a1c is not reliable and should be displaced by fructosamine test. material and methods: the current descriptive ...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors that affect the development of retinopathy after short-term inpatient management of diabetes. PATIENTS AND METHODS The subjects were 143 patients with type 2 diabetes who were admitted for inpatient management of diabetes, and did not have retinopathy of the right eye at admission, and had an HbA1c level of > or =8.0%. We studied the characteristics of patients wh...

OBJECTIVE Report the results of hyperglycemia in the patients with acute cerebral infarction. MATERIAL AND METHOD A retrospective review of 231 patients who presented with the syndrome of acute cerebral infarction at Ratchaburi Hospital from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2004. Patients data, diagnosis, blood glucose, and underlying disease were collected from medical records (n = 231). RE...

diabetes is considered as a global affecting disease with an increasing contribution to both mortality rate and cost damage in the society. therefore, tight control of blood glucose levels has gained significant attention over the decades. this paper proposes a method for blood glucose level regulation in type 1 diabetics. the control strategy is based on combining the fuzzy logic theory and si...

background: hypoglycemia is one of the most common neonatal disorders, associated with severe complications. there has been a great deal of controversy regarding the definition and screening of hypoglycemia. therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine a cut-off value for blood glucose level in glucometer readings. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 238 newborns at risk of ...