background chronic renal failure is an important and common complication of diabetes mellitus; hence, renal transplantation is a frequent and the acceptable treatment in patients with diabetic nephropathy requiring renal replacement therapy. on the other hand, renal transplantation and its conventional treatment can lead to increased diabetes outbreak in normoglycemic recipients. also, uncontro...

background: gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is a common obstetrical complication with both maternal and fetal side effects.objective: this study was performed to determine the complications in neonates of mothers with gdm receiving insulin vs. dietary regimen.materials and methods: in this prospective cohort study, 140 neonates of mothers with gdm attending javaheri hospital of azad univers...

background and aims. the aim of this study was to establish a relationship between salivary glucose levels and candida carriage rate in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and assess the growth characteristics and acid production of candida in glucose-supplemented saliva. materials and methods. a total of 90 subjects, 30 with controlled type 2 diabetes, 30 with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and 30...

background and objectives: type 2 diabetes is the most prevalent form of diabetes mellitus and is associated with a variety of complications. homocysteine is an important independent risk factor for atherosclerotic diseases in both diabetic and non diabetic subjects. the association between these two is still unclear. the aim of this study was to assess the serum homocysteine levels in uncompli...

Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), a micro vascular complication of diabetes mellitus accounts for three quarter of cases of moderate visual loss due to diabetic eye disease. This entity represents a significant burden with increasing incidence and prevalence of diabetes in the Indian subcontinent, and availability of limited public health resources. In chronic poorly controlled diabetics with assoc...

during last decades many researchers have focused on the conditions associated with bell's palsy including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and viral infections. this study was performed to evaluate correlation of diabetes mellitus and bell's palsy and some relevant features not discussed in the literature in an iranian population. the presence of diabetes mellitus was evaluated in a total numb...

background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most important cardiovascular risk factors. objectives: this study was performed to assess the relationship of diabetes with gender, education, and marital status in an iranian urban population. methods: a total of 892 men and women aged 30-85 were recruited using a cluster-stratified sampling method from an urban population. using a questionna...

The incretin class of anti-hyperglycemic agents, including glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and dipeptidyl peptidase-inhibitors, is an important addition to the therapeutic armamentarium for the management of appropriate patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus as an adjunct to diet and exercise and/or with the agents metformin, sulfonylureas, thiazolidinediones, or any combination there...

Diabetes in pregnant women may be pregestational, where the diabetes, type 1 or type 2 was diagnosed before pregnancy, or hyperglycemia can be first recognised during the pregnancy that comprise two distinct categories gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and previously unrecognised prepregnancy diabetes, so called »overt« diabetes (1) . Women who are in poor glycemic control during the period o...