Background: Obesity is an independent risk factor for Type2 Diabetes and is rising in prevalence throughout the developed and developing countries This study aims to find the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Obese Patients compared to non-obese patients who attended Medicine and Diabetology departments of various hospitals in South Kerala during the period June 2010 to May 2013. Materials and...

This paper presents an intelligent expert based system neural network for the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes patients, given the variable, NPGNumber of times pregnant, PGL-Plasma Glucose concentration a 2 hours in an oral glucose tolerance test, DIA-Diastolic blood pressure(mmHg),TSF-Triceps skin fold thickness (mm), INS-2-Hour serum insulin (mu U/ml), BMI-Body mass index (weight in kg/(height in...

Genetic factors play very important roles in the onset and progression of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the genetic factors correlating with T2DM onset have not as yet been fully clarified. We previously found that copy number losses in the subtelomeric region on chromosome 4p16.3 were detected in early-onset Japanese T2DM patients (onset age <35 years) at a high frequency. Herein, ...

Diabetes is the single most important metabolic disease which causes death and disability world-wide. Global presence of type 2 diabetics in the year 2000 is 171 million which is likely to be 366 million in the year 2030. India has the highest prevalence of diabetics in the world with 32 million and expected to increase to 80 million by 2030 accounting for almost 1/6th of world diabetic populat...

Mucormycosis (Black fungus) is a designated as rare, rapidly progressive fatal disease of immunocompromised caused by saprophytic fungus family mucorales. Early diagnosis with prompt medical and surgical treatment the only tool available. Rhino-orbito-cerebral most common subtype. In India we saw sudden rise in mucormycosis cases during second wave COVID 19. This necessitated systematic review ...

The present study was conducted to perform the cultural adaptation, translation and validation of Diabetes Empowerment Scale-5 (DES-5) instrument in Hindi language for use in Indian type 2 diabetic patients. Validated English version of DES-5 instrument was selected. Instrument was subjected to forward and back translation to generate final version in the Hindi language. The instrument consists...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of poor glycaemic control on the prevalence of erectile dysfunction among men with type 2 Diabetics aged 27 to 85 years. DESIGN The databases Embase classic+Embase, Global health, Ovid Medline and PsychINFO, were searched for relevant studies in June 2014 using the keywords: (Diabetes Mellitus OR diabetes mellitus type2 OR DM2 OR T2DM OR insulin resistance) A...