Diabetic retinopathy is one of the major causes of preventable blindness in the UK and USA in those aged between 24 and 64 years. For a proportion of diabetic women, the first half of this period coincides with peak fertility and childbearing years. Diabetic eye disease may develop for the first time during pregnancy, and visual loss at this stage has serious implications for both the patient a...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of subclinical atherosclerosis, evaluated by carotid artery intimamedia thickness (CIMT) in subjects with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Methods: A total of 167 subjects, 50 newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic subjects and 117 non-diabetic subjects were included in the study. Obese and overweight newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic p...

Objective: Correlation of osteoporosis (OP) with type 2diabetes mellitus (DM) , is not as clear as type 1 DM. The purpose of this study was to compare the frequency of OP and osteoporotic fractures in post- menopausal women with and without type 2 DM in Sari, Iran. Materials and Methods: Eighty post-menopausal women with type 2 DM and 80 non-diabetic controls enrolled in this study. Bone mine...

OBJECTIVES The natural history of knee osteoarthritis (OA) is poorly understood. The principal aim was to assess the rate of contralateral knee OA in middle aged women in the general population with existing unilateral disease and to identify the major factors that influence this rate. METHODS Fifty eight women aged (45-64) from a general population study cohort were identified with unilatera...

To Compare colonization of group B streptococcus (GBS) in diabetic and non-diabetic pregnant women. In this prospective study 50 pregnant women with diabetes mellitus (both pregestational and gestational) and 43 pregnant women without diabetes between 33 and 37 weeks' gestation were evaluated. Three samples for Group B streptococcal culture detection were obtained from each subject in the follo...

Introduction: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in pregnancy is rare but associated with maternal and foetal morbidity mortality. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the epidemiological, diagnostic, prognostic characteristics DKA pregnant women Dakar hospitals predictive factors its occurrence. Methods: This retrospective was conducted from January 2013 2021 Internal Medicine/ Endocrinology...

BACKGROUND Adiponectin circulates in the blood in three different multimer isoforms, of which the high molecular weight form (HMW) is presumed to mediate insulin sensitivity. We examined whether adiponectin oligomer distribution is associated with aging and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in octogenarians without characteristic features of metabolic syndrome. METHODS The study included 154 octogenarian...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of age on glucose metabolism by examining 1) glucose metabolism in young and middle-aged subjects when total or regional adiposity is taken into account and 2) in vitro glucose transport in adipose tissue explants from young and middle-aged women paired for total and abdominal adiposity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Study 1: body composition, subcutaneous abdomin...

In 1949, Priscilla White published "Pregnancy Complicating Diabetes," which described the results and implications of a fifteen-year study about pregnant diabetic women. Published in the American Journal of Medicine, the article details possible causes of and ways to prevent the high fetal mortality rate associated with pregnant diabetic women. Diabetes is a disease in which the body's ability ...