Background: Diabetes mellitus is a leading public health problem with increasing incidence and long term complications such as diabetic nephropathy, diabetic neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy etc. These complications are mainly a consequence of macrovascular and microvascular damages of the target organs.The presence of an extensive microvascular circulation and abundant connective tissue in the...

The objective of this study is to determine the level of hyperkalemia in Saudi patients of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. In the present study, 362 male and female known diabetic patients of type 1 and type 2 and 158 non diabetic control subjects visiting Al Iman and Prince Salman hospitals of Riyadh were studied from November 2004 to July 2006. 12.6% type 1 and 18.5% of type2 diabetics i...

BACKGROUND We report data showing the incidence of new coronary events in diabetics with prior myocardial infarction (MI), nondiabetics with prior MI, diabetes with no coronary artery disease (CAD), and nondiabetics with no CAD who were treated with and without statins. METHODS We investigated-in an observational prospective study of 274 diabetics and 386 nondiabetics with peripheral arterial...

The relationships between insulin secretion, insulin action, and fasting plasma glucose concentration (FPG) were examined in 34 southwest American Indians (19 nondiabetics, 15 noninsulin-dependent diabetics) who had a broad range of FPG (88-310 mg/100 ml). Fasting, glucose-stimulated, and meal-stimulated plasma insulin concentrations were negatively correlated with FPG in diabetics but not in n...

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Frequent abnormalities of left ventricular function were detected in 212 established diabetic patients using non-invasive techniques. Diabetics without angina or heart failure (n = 185) were significantly different from normal subjects (n = 50) in beat-to-beat variation, ratio of pre-ejection period to left ventricular ejection time, pre-ejection period index, isovolumic relaxation time, and in...

Both community acquired pneumonia (CAP) and diabetes mellitus are common in Bangladesh. Though hospitalization of diabetic patients with CAP is increasing, data regarding their clinical presentation, microbial characteristics, antimicrobial susceptibility and outcome are lacking. This study was aimed at finding any difference in clinical presentation, bacterial causes, antimicrobial susceptibil...

BACKGROUND Elevated B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a hallmark in heart failure (HF). Diabetic patients with chronic HF seem to have higher BNP than nondiabetics. We studied, in acute HF, if BNP levels are different between diabetics and nondiabetics. METHODS From a prospectively recruited population of acute HF patients, we selected a convenience sample. In pair-matched analysis, each di...

INTRODUCTION The QT interval on the resting electrocardiogram (ECG) expresses the myocardial depolarisation and repolarisation time. Elevated values of QT dispersion (QTd) are associated with cardiovascular mortality in diabetics. Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is a common complication of diabetes that is also associated with increased morbidity and mortality. However, there are no data in ...