OBJECTIVES To examine the difference in outcome between percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), to see if it has changed over the years in diabetics deemed eligible for both treatments; and to contrast the long-term mortality findings with those in non-diabetics. DESIGN Meta-analyses using data from randomised controlled trials found by searches on...

Fructose raises blood glucose and lactate levels in normal as well as diabetic man, but the tissue origin (liver and/or kidney) of these responses and the role of insulin in determining the end products of fructose metabolism have not been fully established. Splanchnic and renal substrate exchange was therefore examined during intravenous infusion of fructose or saline in six insulin-deficient ...

Review of the literature reveals much confusion over the relation between cataract and diabetes in the older age-groups. Table I shows that in ophthalmoscopic surveys cataract has as often as not been found to be commoner in non-diabetics than in diabetics. Surveys of patients who have had a cataract extracted have, on the other hand, shown an overall proportion of diabetics that is higher than...

The influence of exercise on leg and splanchnic exchange of substrates was examined in eight insulin-dependent diabetics 24 h after withdrawal of insulin and in eight healthy controls studied at rest and after 40 min of bicycle ergometer exercise at 55-60% of maximal capacity. In four of the diabetic subjects, basal arterial ketone acid levels were 3-4 mmol/ liter (ketotic diabetics) and in the...

The pulse wave velocity from the origin of the aorta to the radial artery was measured in diabetics, in order to determine whether it is related to the fasting levels of serum triglycerides and total serum cholesterol . A high degree of negative correlation was found between the expansibility of arterial wall and serum triglyceride levels in well controlled diabetics as well as poorly controlle...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to compare mortality and clinical events following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) between nondiabetics and diabetics with and without proteinuria. BACKGROUND Diabetics have increased rates of late myocardial infarction, repeat revascularization and mortality when compared with nondiabetics following PCI. Proteinuria is a marker for diabetic nep...

OBJECTIVES We sought to assess the impact of diabetic retinopathy on long-term outcome among patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary artery disease (MVD) following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). BACKGROUND For diabetics, CABG is the preferred revascularization strategy. Diabetic retinopathy is a major microvascular complication of diabetes, and its severity is directly r...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus has worse outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention. AIM We assessed stent thrombosis (ST), major adverse cardiac events (MACE), and major bleeding rates at 1 year after implantation of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) in patients with diabetes mellitus in a large multicenter registry. METHODS From May 2006 to April 2008, 15,147 unselected consecutive patie...

Background: One of the complications diabetes is Peripheral neuropathy that becomes source frailty and indisposition. Metabolic malfunction root cause in target nerve damage. Aim: To evaluate electrophysiological case research with respect to effect diabetics on nerves link it along blood sugar Methods: Assessment related upper limb was carried out for motor by aid computerized system surface e...