background: the growing number of people with diabetes mellitus and its complications shows the need to focus on ways to control diabetes mellitus through improving lifestyle, dietary patterns and physical activity. this systematic review assesses the effects of healthy dietary patterns on managing hyperglycemia, insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus type 2. methods: the main keywords used i...

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...

diabetes mellitus (dm) is a major public health problem. objective of current study was to know the demography, clinical characteristics and etiology of youth diabetes mellitus (dm) in kashmir, north india. methods: a prospective hospital based study, carried out in the department of endocrinology, skims srinagar, kashmir india over the period from 2008 july - september 2010. setting: a teachin...

the number of people with diabetes mellitus is increasing and cataracts are one of the most common causes of visual impairment in these patients. advances in cataract surgery have generally resulted in favorable surgical outcomes. however, surgery may not be safe and effective in individuals who were previously not candidates for surgery or who had limited visual prognosis. many questions remai...

Context Multiple consensus statements decree that women with diabetes mellitus should have comparable birth outcomes to women without diabetes mellitus; however, there is a scarcity of contemporary population-based studies on this issue. Objective To examine temporal trends in obstetric interventions and perinatal outcomes in a population-based cohort of women with type 1, type 2, or gestatio...

background: the clinical symptoms of diabetes mellitus in oral cavity are xerostomia, pathological changes in periodontal tis­sues and caries. it has been suggested that the determination of salvia`s components in diabetic patients may be useful in de­scribing and further understanding the oral findings in this condition. the aim of this study was to detect differences be­tween the salivary alb...

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...