Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease and maintaining a tight glycemic control is essential to prevent both microvascular and macrovascular complications, as demonstrated in previous studies. It is essential to monitor the glucose levels in order to achieve the targets. The blood glucose monitoring can be done by different methods: glycated haemoglobin A1c, self-monitoring of blood glucose (befo...

The aim of this paper is to discuss important issues for design and development of noninvasive blood glucometer. Noninvasive blood glucose monitoring could improve life quality of diabetes patients, enabling a better regulation of hyper and hypoglycemia conditions. Research to develop noninvasive glucose sensing technology is driven by the promise to provide in vivo glucose concentrations witho...

Any adult with diabetes in the tropics with hand cellulitis, infection and gangrene qualifies for tropical diabetic hand syndrome (TDHS). We reviewed a 39-year-old woman with a 3-week history of swelling of the left index finger following an insect bite. The swelling progressively increased in size, was very painful, and extended to the palm. There was no history or symptoms suggestive of chron...

The aim of this study was to assess the standards of care and patients' knowledge and practices at Benghazi Diabetes Centre, the largest diabetes registry in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. A sample of 805 attending patients was interviewed over 2 months in 2002. Overall, 48.3% had never had blood pressure checked and 14.2% had never had a fundus examination and none had ever had glycosylated haemo...

This study is to find effectiveness of combined aerobic and resistance training over aerobic exercise on blood glucose level to improve quality of life in type II diabetes.Thirty subjects randomly divided into two equal experimental and control group. Both groups were trained for 10 weeks; 3 days a week with duration of 60 minutes per session. The experimental group trained with aerobic exercis...

In this work, a novel glucose quantification strategy is presented in self-powered biosensing device. The analyte the sample oxidized an enzymatic fuel cell and generated charge transferred to capacitor. built-up capacitor voltage at specific time can be directly correlated with concentration of analyte. An electro-fluidic switch placed on paper-based microfluidic channel connects minimalistic ...

The aim of this study was to determine the anticholesterol activity stem extract Uncaria cordata (Lour.) Merr. on total cholesterol levels in male mice (Mus musculus). Before carrying out test, phytochemical tests were carried content secondary metabolites stems. Furthermore, test vivo using mice, induced by high-fat diet (PTL) form beef brain, quail egg yolk and propylthiouracil increase until...

[Purpose] This study was performed to investigate the effects of yogic exercises on life stress and blood glucose levels in nursing students. [Subjects and Methods] The study was a randomized controlled trial. Twenty-seven undergraduate nursing students were randomly selected, with 12 assigned to an exercise group and 15 assigned to a control group. The yogic exercises intervention was undertak...