Patients affected by diabetes show an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality that reduces their life expectancy by 5–15 years (depending on the age at diagnosis). An 18-year follow-up study from Finland demonstrated a similar impact of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on cardiovascular mortality, with an increased risk of 5.2 and4.9 times for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, respecti...

Siniscalchi’s Sign*.......................................................................................................................1 Bedside Recognizing, in one Second, Diabetic Constitution, its Inherited Real Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. .....................................................................................................................

HLA class II genes are strongly associated with susceptibility and resistance to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The present study reports the HLA-DRB1 genotyping of 41 IDDM patients and 99 healthy subjects from the Southeast of Brazil (Campinas region). Both groups consisted of an ethnic mixture of Caucasian, African Negro and Amerindian origin. HLA-DRB1*03 and *04 alleles were fou...

Hypoglycemia is well-recognized to limit the degree of glycemic control possible for many individuals for diabetes. Although the likelihood of hypoglycemia increases as A1c levels decrease in type 1 diabetes, insulin-treated type 2 diabetic persons with higher A1c appear paradoxically to have more hypoglycemia which may explain, in part, the adverse outcome reported in the ACCORD study. Approac...

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1. Whether an alteration in cell membrane cation transport after exposure to insulin and angiotensin II (two important growth promoters that have been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and hypertension) is present in cells from non-insulin-dependent diabetes patients with microalbuminuria, a known risk factor for cardiovascular and renal disease, is unknown. We therefo...

OBJECTIVE to assess the relationship between serums vitamin D level and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children. METHODS the following electronic databases were searched until Sep 2014 to identify relevant studies that assessed the relationship between serum vitamin D with T1DM: PubMed\EMbase\Medline\Central Register of Controlled Trials\CBM\Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI...

The present study was conducted to assess the reciprocal effects between the psychosocial contexts of diabetes and older adulthood. Data were collected from 191 community-dwelling adults over the age of 60 with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Results indicate that older adults with diabetes reported higher rates of selected chronic illnesses, lower self-rated physical health, and highe...

OBJECTIVE Hypoglycemia has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and all-cause mortality. This study assessed whether, in a nationally representative population, there is an association between hypoglycemia, the risk of CV events, and all-cause mortality among insulin-treated people with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This retros...

"Insulin will never be a success in the treatment of diabetics without the aid of the general practitioner."(1) These words, written by Elliott P. Joslin, MD, in 1923, still ring true today. After the first successful insulin injection was administered on January 23, 1922, to Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus at Toronto General Hospital, it did not take long ...