diabetic self-management is important for controlling the diabetes complications and promoting health-related quality of life in these patients. the objective of this study was to examine a hypothetical model regarding influences of sociostructural determinants, collaborative decision-making and patient's beliefs system on diabetes self-management.in a cross-sectional descriptive study from dec...

the biobreeding- diabetes prone (bb-dp) rat spontaneously develops an autoimmune diabetic syndrome that is dependent on the rt1 u major histocompatibility complex (mhc) haplotype and homozygosity for an allele at the lymphopenia (lyp) locus. lyp mutation is responsible for a peripheral t -lymphopenia. there are other genetic loci contributing to diabetes susceptibility in this strain. bb rats c...

objective: type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic and progressive disease that has reached the epidemic level around the world. in malaysia, according to the third national health and morbidity survey (2006), the prevalence of diabetes has increased to 14.9% from 8.3% in 1996. co-morbid psychological factors such as depression, anxiety, and stress have been shown to be high among type 2 diabetic...

abstract background and objective: diabetes mellitus is associated with cardiomyopathic changes, can be mediated by an oxidative stress. we aimed to study the effects of regular aerobic training and arbutin supplementation on total oxidant status (tos) and total antioxidant (tas) status in the cardiac tissue of diabetic rats. material and methods: fourty-two male wistar rats with an average wei...

background: about 80% of deaths in 350 million cases of diabetes in the world occur in low and middle income countries. the aim of this study was to determine the status of diabetes socioeconomic inequality and the share of determinants of inequalities in kurdistan province, west of iran, using two surveys in 2005 and 2009.   methods: data were collected from non-communicable disease surveillan...

abstract background and aims: diabetes is a major killing recognized as a silent epidemic globally problem. india has the highest number of diabetes cases in the world causing huge morbidity and economic losses to the country. there were 66.8 million adults suffering from with diabetes in india in 2014, which is expected to rise by 63% to 109 million by 2035. diabetes led to at least usd 612 bi...

How did Iraq’s ethnic and religious minorities survive the Islamic State (ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah, IS) occupation of Ninewa Governorate? Existing accounts wartime survival either essentialize social identity or ignore it altogether by reducing to cost-benefit calculations political opportunism. Against conventional wisdom, this article argues that individuals conflict drawing on repertoires – co...

On the basis of unknown and little-known materials, peculiarities functioning urban armed forces SB have been revealed. It has established that in many areas covered by OUN network, first began to be created fall 1941 as a means force against local wires German Soviet agents. The main tasks were set before them years activity (reconnaissance, occasionally sabotage terrorist operations) are high...

the islamic fast during the month of ramadan is strictly observed worldwide by millions of muslims. ramadan is the 9th month of the islamic lunar calendar and fasting during ramadan is the religious duty of all healthy adult muslims. a whole month of intermittent fasting, from dawn to dusk, every year is particular only to islam and considering that islam has over 1.5 billion followers worldwid...

a storke is the sudden onset of focal neurologic deficit from a vascular mechanism and is the 3 rd cause of death in developed countries. this study was carried out to evaluate the known risk factors of stroke and their effect on the onset of it in shahid behesti hospital in kashan in 1998. the descriptive strategy of this study was conducted on 300 patients with cva, that their illness was doc...