conclusions: the prevalence of obesity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in yemen is high with respect to the yemeni population, especially in females. objectives: we conducted this study to assess the prevalence of obesity in yemeni patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. patients and methods: body mass index (bmi) of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who were 25-years-old or olde...

Background Diabetes mellitus type I (DMTI) is one of the most common endocrine and metabolic conditions in childhood. We aimed to assess the tissue Doppler imagining changes in children with DMTI compared to healthy children. Materials and Methods This case-control study was performed on 96 DMTI and 96 healthy children. The d...

autoimmune polyglandular syndrome (aps) type 2 is characterized by the presence of addison's disease, in association with autoimmune thyroid disease and/or type 1 diabetes mellitus. aps type 2 occurs most often in middle aged females and is rare in children. here an 11 year old boy is reported with addison's disease who developed symptom's of diabetes mellitus, goiter, malabsorption, macrocytic...

Background: Nephrotic syndrome and type 1 diabetes mellitus are two common chronic conditions in children. Co-existence of these conditions is an extremely rare finding. Case presentation: This report presents a 6-year-old boy who was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome five years ago and type 1 diabetes mellitus in infancy. Renal biopsy showed membranous glomerulonephritis, which is a rare h...

Diabetic nephropathy is the most common cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States, and accounts for 35% of all the patients with ESRD entering a dialysis program; 63% of patients with diabetic nephropathy have type II diabetes mellitus. Hypertension is a major risk factor for renal disease and is common in people with diabetes mellitus. Strategies for preventing the progressi...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a health concern which leads to complications such as retinopathy. Pakistan has 6.9 million people living with DM and this toll will be doubled by 2025. Objective: To determine serum IL-6 and IL-17 of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with retinopathy. Methods: In this cross-sectional casecontrol study, 212 subjects enrolled which were categorized in...

The study included 20 patients with diabetes mellitus type I (DM I) and 16 with type II (DM II) suffering from prolipherative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) for which they underwent vitrectomy. The quantity of VEGF and its receptors in the vitreous of investigated patients were measured by immunoassay and results compared between patients with DM I and II. The mean levels in the vitreous were signi...

In examining the pathophysiology underlying the development of hypertension in diabetes mellitus, it is important to draw clear distinctions between Type I and Type II diabetes. In patients with Type I diabetes, with a peak onset of disease early in the second decade of life, hypertension clearly represents the sequelae to the development of substantial renal lesions, especially in the glomerul...

diabetic retinopathy is a common complication of type ii diabetes mellitus and carries with it the threat of blindness. accurate information regarding the incidence of diabetic retinopathy and associated risk factors is important in the prevention of its development and of the visual impairment caused by this complication. this study was designed to determine the prevalence of diabetic retinopa...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine disorder of carbohydrate metabolism resulting primarily from inadequate insulin release (type I) or insulin insensitivity coupled with inadequate compensatory insulin release (type II). Oxidative stress is one of the complications of diabetes that increases in both types of diabetes and treatment with antioxidants can reduce the complications of dia...