objective: cardiovascular complications are the major cause of reduced lifetime in diabetic patients. given that physical activity can play an effective role in reducing these complications, the current study was conducted with the aim of examining the effects of 8 weeks of aerobic exercise on some cardiovascular risk factors in women with type 2 diabetes. materials and methods: twenty women wi...

Type I and type II diabetes mellitus, characterized by increased blood glucose levels, affect almost half a billion people around the world [...]

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a health concern which leads to complications such as retinopathy. Pakistan has 6.9 million people living with DM and this toll will be doubled by 2025. Objective: To determine serum IL-6 and IL-17 of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with retinopathy. Methods: In this cross-sectional casecontrol study, 212 subjects enrolled which were categorized in...

Variation at the variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) minisatellite 5 of the insulin gene (I N S) is associated with several phenotypes, including type 1 diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, and birth weight. Case-control studies have suggested that class III VNTR alleles are also associated with type 2 diabetes, but results have been inconsistent and may reflect population stratification. To e...

Introduction: Antioxidant agents have beneficial effects in diabetes mellitus. Daucus carota seeds extract has been shown to possess antioxidant activity. In this study, the effect of the methanolic extract of Daucus carota seeds on carbohydrate metabolism and morphology of pancreas was investigated in type I diabetic male rats. Methods: Type I diabetes mellitus was induced in male Wistar ...

Objective: Social determinant of health (SDH) are different from medical care and services. These factors themselves are affected by social policies, and they influence health more than medical care and services do. Due to the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases especially diabetes in Yazd, and assuming the effect of SDH, the present study was conducted in order to examine the relat...

abstract background: better control of blood sugar and reduction of diabetes complications through insulin therapy could convince people to choose this method. however, patients might refuse insulin therapy due to its painful injection, limitations in daily activities, and hypoglycemia. thus, insulin therapy could have both positive and negative effects on patients’ quality of life (qol). there...