Aim: Many diabetic patients insist on fasting in Ramadan despite the potential risks of hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis and diabetic hyperosmolar coma. These patients represent a challenge not only for themselves, but also for the professional care providers during this period that lasts a full month. Aim of this review to provide health care practitioners with new data publi...

PURPOSE To report the progress (after 9-year follow-up) of a study designed to determine whether improved glucose control in patients with newly diagnosed non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is effective in reducing the incidence of clinical complications. DATA SOURCE A multicenter, randomized, controlled trial of different therapies for NIDDM. After initial diet therapy, 4209 asy...

Calorie restriction (CR) and fasting affect lifespan, disease susceptibility response to acute injury across multiple animal models, including ischaemic injuries such as myocardial infarction or kidney hypoxia. The cargo function of circulating extracellular vesicles (EV) respond changes in host physiology, exercise, injury, other interventions. Thus, we hypothesised that EVs induced following ...

muslims all over the world fast in the holy month of ramadan. fasting means abstinence from drinking any liquids, eating, smoking and taking anything parenterally.  it is intermittent in nature from the start of dawn to end at dusk. fasting has various physiological effects on different biological parameters of the human body. previous studies that look at effect of ramadan fasting on blood pre...

Background and Objective: What distinguishes a poison from remedy is dose. The safety of plant-derived bioactive compounds has become global concern. present study investigated the dose response aqueous extract Dialium guineense stem bark using Wistar rats. Methods: Adult male rats (n=30) weighing 160-180 g (mean weight =170 ± 20 g) were randomly assigned to six groups five each. medicinal plan...

Background: To evaluate the efficacy of adding the glutazone to maximum dose of sulfonylurea and metformin in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes. Methods: Ninety six patients with type 2 diabetes who had failed medical therapy with maximal-dosage of metformin and glibenclamide received glutazone. Fasting blood sugar (FBS), 2 hours postprandial (2hpp) glucose, hemoglobin A1C, chol...

background: to evaluate the efficacy of adding the glutazone to maximum dose of sulfonylurea and metformin in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes. methods: ninety six patients with type 2 diabetes who had failed medical therapy with maximal-dosage of metformin and glibenclamide received glutazone. fasting blood sugar (fbs), 2 hours postprandial (2hpp) glucose, hemoglobin a1c, choles...

ramadan is a holy month for muslims and fasting in this month is the rule for any healthy matured person. nutritional and behavioral changes occurred during ramadan fasting may lead to several physiological change, such as blood pressure (2). studies evaluated the effects of ramadan fasting on blood pressure in hypertensive patients, are scarce and reported inadequate results. in this paper a s...