© 2009 Elsevier. All rights reserved. Received: Sep 15, 2008 Accepted: Feb 3, 2009 Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Dr Chai-Jan Chang, Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, 482 San-Ming Road, Hsiao-Kang, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected] ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SERUM LEPTIN AND ADIPONECTIN LEVELS WITH RISK OF INSULIN RESISTANCE AND IM...

Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) contributes to incretin effect of insulin secretion which is impaired in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to introduce a simple meal test for evaluation of GIP secretion and action and to examine GIP changes in Type 2 diabetic patients. Seventeen Type 2 diabetic patients, 10 obese non-diabetic and 17 non-obese control persons hav...

background: considering that serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (ggt) activity could reflect several different processes relevant to diabetes pathogenesis and the increasing rate of type 2 diabetes worldwide, the aim of this study was to assess the association between serum ggt concentrations and glucose intolerance, in the first-degree relatives (fdr) of type 2 diabetic patients. methods: in thi...

Due to the range of its constituents, colostrum has been considered as a supplement for various diverse purposes. This study was conducted to examine the effect of supplementary bovine colostrum on serum malondialdehyde (MDA), antioxidant activity (AOA) and glucose in a diabetic rodent model. Sixty male Wistar rats were divided into 10 groups of six rats each for 40 days as follows: non-diabeti...

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease with serious health consequences. The association between diabetes and periodontal disease is well documented. However, the progression and healing of endodontic infections in diabetic patients has not been adequately studied. Dental lesions are emerging as a significant problem in the diabetic patients because of the improving health conditions. The purpo...

Resistin and visfatin have been proposed as playing a role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance. We assessed the relationship between their serum concentrations and insulin resistance in lean, obese diabetic and obese non-diabetic. We explore their relationship with inflammatory markers and anthropometric parameters in obese patients. We measured serum resistin, visfatin levels in obese di...

background: to investigate the effect of cana2-edta and experimental diabetes (iddm) on zinc and carbohydrate metabolism and the activities of got, gpt and alkaline phosphatase. methods: forty male normal albino (wistar) rats of 8 weeks of age were fed with a basal diet. twenty rats were then intraperitoneally injected with alloxan to induce diabetes. then after one week ten rats from each grou...

BACKGROUND/AIMS some studies have reported controversial results when comparing the gastrointestinal transit between diabetic and healthy individuals. Therefore, we compared the gastrointestinal transit of radiopaque particles between diabetic and non-diabetic healthy individuals. METHODS abdominal radiographies were performed for 45 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and 35 healthy individual...