background: information regarding the frequency and severity of eye involvement in diabetic patients and its risk factors can be useful for prevention and treatment. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy and its associated risk factors in diabetic patients who referred to teaching hospitals in babol, mazandaran.  methods: in this study a total of 1562 patients wit...

OBJECTIVE Family history of type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes in youth, which is increasing. This investigation aimed to evaluate the impact of family history of type 2 diabetes on insulin secretion relative to insulin sensitivity in healthy children. beta-Cell compensation for insulin sensitivity was calculated as the product of insulin sensitivity x first-phase insuli...

AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of the study was to assess the impact of family history of diabetes, obesity and lifestyle factors particularly physical activity on glucose intolerance in a selected south Indian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Chennai Urban Population Study (CUPS) is an epidemiological study involving two residential areas in Chennai in South India representing the middle and ...

There is a strong familial predisposition to type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. The authors evaluated the association between a family history of these diseases and a large panel of cardiovascular risk factors in 1,431 Mexican American subjects who were enrolled in the San Antonio Family Heart Study in San Antonio, Texas. The baseline phase of the study covered 1992-1996...

AIMS To investigate the importance of a maternal and paternal family history of Type 2 diabetes and their combined association with plasma leptin and adiponectin levels in overweight Latino children with a family history of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). METHODS This cross-sectional study investigated the combined association of a maternal and paternal family history of T2DM with leptin and adiponec...

A family history of diabetes is a major risk factor for the disease. As such, it is often included in a variety of tools designed to detect either people at risk of diabetes or people with undiagnosed diabetes. One of the reasons to screen for diabetes is that it has a prolonged asymptomatic phase, which includes impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, and the early stages of diab...