Abstract Introduction There is evidence of the existence quantitative changes in microbiome, including Bifidobacterium spp., due to some chronic diseases, such as liver cirrhosis, inflammatory bowel obesity, or celiac disease. Materials and Methods We aimed examine number total bacteria present colon patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) 2 (T2DM), well healthy subjects. DNA was extracted from pa...

Objective: This study aims to determine whether HbA1c level has a correlation with vascular endothelial growthfactor (VEGF) serum in diabetic retinopathy (DR) patients.Methods: is an analytical cross-sectional of patients DR due type 2 diabetes, purposivesampling technique. Patients were grouped into non-proliferative (NPDR) and proliferative (PDR). HbA1cand VEGF levels assessed by taking the p...

Diabetes mellitus has been linked with an increased risk for oral diseases, especially periodontal diseases (Oliver & Tervonen 1994, Yalda et al. 1994). Further investigations have, however, shown that this risk is not equal in all patients with diabetes. These studies explored the relationship between the diabetic status and periodontal diseases, dental caries and salivary factors. In a group ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of first morning urinary volume (collected on three different non-consecutive days), fasting blood glucose (determined on the first and third days of urine collection), and glycosylated hemoglobin (determined on the first and third days of urine collection) on the albumin concentration in first morning urine samples collected on three diff...

OBJECTIVE We have investigated the effects of cholinergic modulation with pirenzepine and pyridostigmine and of GH pretreatment on the subsequent GH response to a maximal stimulatory dose of GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) in patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). We have also investigated the relationship between the differences in metabolic control and other parameters of disea...

OBJECTIVE We wished to study alterations in serum insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and its binding proteins in subjects with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and possible relations with metabolic and GH secretory status, before and after cholinergic modulation. In addition, we have investigated whether cholinergic modulation exerts any effects on IGF-I secretion, independently of ...