BACKGROUND The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing in Malaysia, with most patients poorly controlled. Hence, this study aimed to determine nutritional and metabolic status as well as blood pressure of Malaysian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and identify associated risk factors for poor glycemic control. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 104 type 2 diabetic patients were recrui...

Poor glycemic control is associated with unfavorable outcome in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), irrespective of diabetes mellitus. However a complete assessment of glycemic status may not be fully described by glycated hemoglobin or fasting blood glucose levels, whereas daily glycemic fluctuations may influence cardiovascular risk and have even more deleterious eff...

BACKGROUND To determine whether the alleles that influence type II diabetes risk and glycemic traits also influence prostate cancer risk. METHODS We used a multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) genotypic risk score to assess the average effect of alleles that increase type II diabetes risk or worsen glycemic traits on risk of prostate cancer in 19,662 prostate cancer cases and 19,715...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of and factors associated with suboptimal glycemic and blood pressure (BP) control in a Malay population with diabetes mellitus in Singapore. METHODS The Singapore Malay Eye Study was a population-based survey of 3280 Malay individuals (78.7% response rate) aged 40 to 80 years. Diabetes was defined as a nonfasting glucose level of 200 mg/dL or greater, use ...

BACKGROUND The poor glycemic status seems to be an important factor affecting implant complication rates, including peri-implant bone loss. PURPOSE This trial evaluated the influence of glycemic control of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients on implant stabilization and on the levels of bone markers in peri-implant fluid during the healing. MATERIALS AND METHODS Systemically healthy pa...

Background: Although the results were conflicting, the Paleolithic diet (PD) was proposed to be effective in improvement of metabolic status. We aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on the randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) evaluating the effects of PD on glycemic markers. Methods: Online databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were searc...

Sumac (Rhus coriaria L.) is used as an herbal remedy in traditional medicine. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of sumac (Rhus coriaria L.) on serum glycemic status, apolipoprotein (apo) B, apoA-I and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in type 2 diabetic patients. This double blind randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 41 type 2 diabetic volunteers randomly assign...

BACKGROUND Previous epidemiological investigations of associations between dietary glycemic intake and insulin resistance have used average daily measures of glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL). We explored multiple and novel measures of dietary glycemic intake to determine which was most predictive of an association with insulin resistance. METHODS Usual dietary intakes were assessed ...

Erythrocytes were fractionated, by centrifugation, on the basis of cell density, which is proportional to cell age. Glycated hemoglobin (Hb A1c) in the fractionated cells was measured and compared with the Hb A1c in whole blood and with the fructosamine concentrations in plasma of normal and diabetic subjects. In normal subjects, Hb A1c increased according to the age of the erythrocytes, but hy...