The study investigated the effects of type 2 diabetes mellitus on salivary flow and composition in humans compared to healthy sex and age matched controls. Forty adult human subjects divided into 20 diabetic and 20 non-diabetic healthy subjects were included. Saliva samples were collected and analysed for glucose, total protein, calcium, sodium, potassium, chloride and bicarbonate. Salivary flo...

background: diabetes mellitus is a serious public health problem worldwide and particularly in developing countries. in algeria, this metabolic disorder occurs with a wide variety or atypical forms that linked to multiple risk factors including local habits and traditions. this study aimed to determine the impact of risk factors (metabolic syndrome, social, cultural, physical activity, family h...

introduction: due to the relation between structure and function of renal glomeruli, the study of glomeruli is very important to the understanding of initiation and progression of diabetic glomerulopathy. it seems that glomeruli disappear during the course of diabetic nephropathy without leaving recognizable corpuscles. this study was aimed to show diabetes mellitus effects on changes in renal ...

Background: Growth problems represent an important complication in children and adolescent with Type1 diabetes mellitus poor metabolic control seems to impact their growth velocity. Aim: assess the nutritional status type 1 mellitus, relation selected patients' variables. Methods: a case-control study has been carried out of sixty-one patients mellitus; eighty-two age sex matched healthy as gro...

Diabetes mellitus remains an incurable disorder in spite of intense research. As result of limitations and unmet goals associated with the use of anti-diabetic drugs, an increased number of diabetic populations globally now resort to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) such as herbs and other natural products. There has been a renewed interest in the use of honey in the treatment of di...

To detect the serum concentrations of secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) in patients with diabetic nephropathy and SPARC mRNA and protein expressions in renal tissue of db/db mice (C57BL/KsJ, diabetic nephropathy mice), thus preliminary exploration on the role of secreted protein acidic riches in cysteine in the development of diabetic nephropathy were carried out. Serum SPARC...

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease that is defined by relative or absolute deficiency of insulin secretion. Diabetic kidney disease seems to be one of the most frequent complications of diabetes mellitus. Based on evidence, increased free-radical formation and/or diminished antioxidant defenses induce oxidative stress that is implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease. It i...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of sub clinical diabetic neuropathy in Saudi diabetics and the risk factors associated with symptomatic diabetic neuropathy. METHODS A prospective study of Saudi diabetics attending King Abdulaziz University Hospital out patient clinic from January 1998 until April 1999. Detailed information of each patients` age, sex, body mass index, type and duration o...

Diabetes mellitus is a progressive disease. Most investigators have focused on glomerular changes in diabetic kidney and non-glomerular alterations have been less attended. The present study has been conducted to find early non-glomerular histological changes in diabetic renal tissue. Twenty male Wistar rats weighting 200-250 g were used for the diabetic group. Diabetes mellitus was induced by ...

The aim was to assess the relationship between eNOS 4a/b and -786T/C polymorphisms with coronary artery disease (CAD), obesity and diabetes mellitus. Total number of 1313 patients underwent coronary angiography, 939 had significant CAD (stenosis of > or = 1 coronary artery > or = 50%), 222 had smooth coronary arteries. Patients with insignificant atherosclerosis were excluded, the study finally...