Background: Most research on autonomic dysfunction of diabetes mellitus is conducted on ganglions innervating gastrointestinal (GI) tract and there are limited works focusing on cervical sympathetic ganglia. The effects of diabetes mellitus (DM) on the neurons of superior cervical sympathetic ganglion (SCSG) are investigated by stereological methods. Material and Methods: Female rats (n=72) ran...

Introduction: Family-centered education of patients with diabetes mellitus can play an important role in controlling the disease and reducing its complications. Objective: The present study aims to determine the effect of family-based telephone follow-up about self-care in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Uromia. Materials and Methods: The present clinical trial study investigated 60...

introduction: due to the relation between structure and function of renal glomeruli, the study of glomeruli is very important to the understanding of initiation and progression of diabetic glomerulopathy. it seems that glomeruli disappear during the course of diabetic nephropathy without leaving recognizable corpuscles. this study was aimed to show diabetes mellitus effects on changes in renal ...

BACKGROUND Although guidelines and performance measures exist for patients with diabetes mellitus, achievement of these metrics is not well known. The Diabetes Collaborative Registry® (DCR) was formed to understand the quality of diabetes mellitus care across the primary and specialty care continuum in the United States. METHODS AND RESULTS We assessed the frequency of achievement of 7 diabet...

background: diabetes is a multi factor disease of metabolic disorders, increasing of blood glucose or hyperglycemia. it can cause by secretion abnormality, insulin function or both. sweet diabetic is most common disease and about 150* 1 05 people are suffered from its thought the world. it is predicted that it will reach up to 300*l06 till 2045 . methods: a descriptive study using logical order...

vitamin d and diabetes mellitus

conclusions the lh is a common problem in insulin-treated jordanian patients with t2dm. more efforts are needed to educate patients and health workers on simple interventions such as using shorter needles and frequent rotation of the insulin injection sites to avoid lh and improve glycemic control. results the overall prevalence of lh was 37.3% (27.4% grade 1, 9.7% grade 2, and 0.2% grade 3). t...

background : pancreas as the insulin-producing gland is subjected to destruction and change in the diabetes-producing process. realtime sonography can assess the gland in 95% of cases and its accuracy in diagnosis of pancreatic disease matches that of ct-scan. the purpose of this study was to evaluate pancreatic diameter and echogenicity by sonography and to examine the correlation of these two...

malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus (mrdm) is a major form of secondary diabetes, restricted to tropical developing countries. we studied 200 cases of diabetes mellitus aged 6-18 years in fars province to find the prevalence of mrdm. there were 14 cases who had clinical and laboratory findings compatible with mrdm. the mean age at presentation was 8.6±3 years, with a male to female ratio of3...

background impaired fasting glucose (ifg), and impaired glucose tolerance (igt) are two prediabetes conditions which have some correlation with macrovascular disorders. the risk of microvascular complications in these groups is not clear. objectives the prevalence of albuminuria in subjects with ifg and igt was evaluated in the present study. patients and methods in this study three groups of s...