The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of green tea catechin on prostaglandin synthesis of renal glomerular and renal dysfunction in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 100 +/- 10 g were randomly assigned to one normal group and three groups with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. The diabetic groups were classified to a catechin-free d...

PURPOSE A causal relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and pancreatic cancer is well established. However, in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC) who receive palliative chemotherapy, the impact of DM on the prognosis of APC is unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively enrolled APC patients who received palliative chemotherapy between 2003 and 2010. The patients were s...

ment (HT) in a group of women with diabetes mellitus type II (DM) on menopause compared with nondiabetic patients. Methods: The analysis included 163 women 94 without HT (22 DM), and 69 with HT (16 DM), followed-up for two years. The descriptive data were socio-demographic, BMI, dietary habits, alcohol consumption, smoking, menopause symptoms before and after HT, with or without HT. Lab tests w...

Alfalfa was harvested as second-cutting regrowth herbage, ensiled either at low DM (direct-cut) or high DM (wilted), untreated or treated with .82 or .66% anhydrous NH3 (percentage of DM), respectively, and offered to four Holstein heifers. Silages low in DM had more gross energy and more NDF in DM than silages high in DM. Ammonia treatment increased total, soluble, rumen-insoluble, and NH3 N f...

BACKGROUND It remains unclear if the risk for cardiovascular (CV) mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is equivalent to that in patients with a history of cardiac disease in Asian populations. The aims of the present study were to investigate whether or not non-heart disease (HD) DM subjects have a similar risk of CV mortality as HD patients without DM (non-DM HD), and whether or n...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to observe (i) changes in fasting blood glucose (FBG) in tuberculosis (TB) patients before and during anti-TB treatment, (ii) whether FBG levels were stable or unstable and (iii) baseline characteristics associated with an unstable FBG. METHOD TB patients consecutively attended six clinics or hospitals. FBG measurements were made at months 0, 2 and 6. Data analysis was perf...

BACKGROUND The mid-term prognostic significance of ECG-gated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) remains unclear in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). In the present study rates of future cardiac events (nonfatal acute myocardial infarction (AMI), cardiac death (CD) and severe heart failure (HF) requiring hospitalization) were compared in patients with and with...

BACKGROUND Historically, studies exploring the association between type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and cancer lack accurate definition of date of DM onset, limiting temporal analyses. We examined the temporal relationship between colon cancer risk and DM using an electronic algorithm and clinical, administrative, and laboratory data to pinpoint date of DM onset. METHODS Subjects diagnosed with ...

BACKGROUND Increased oxidative stress might contribute to diabetic (DM) neuropathy, so the effects of long-term treatment with fluvastatin (FL) on myocardial oxidative stress and cardiac sympathetic neural function were investigated in diabetic rats. METHODS AND RESULTS FL (10 mg . kg(-1) . day(-1), DM-FL) or vehicle (DM-VE) was orally administered for 2 weeks to streptozotocin-induced DM rat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diabetes mellitus (DM) has been proposed as a risk factor for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), but this remains controversial. We investigated the association between DM and CTS using both ultrasonography (US) and nerve conduction study (NCS) data. METHODS We analyzed a prospectively recruited database of neuromuscular US and medical records of subjects who had undergone N...