It is not known whether employees who have diabetes mellitus lose more time from work due to sickness than non-diabetic employees. A study was undertaken to compare sickness absence in 91 diabetic with 91 non-diabetic employees matched for sex, age, and occupation. Although sickness absence was greater in the diabetic group this was not significant. Mean sickness absence for the diabetic employ...

Objective: To determine the relationship between pre-existent hyperglycemia among patients with COVID-19 pneumonia requiring oxygen supplementation.
 Study Design: Cross-sectional study
 Place and Duration of Study: isolation wards, High Dependency Units, Intensive Care Units Mayo Hospital Lahore Pakistan, from Apr to May 2021.
 Methodology: Eighty-one but without a prior diagnos...

objective(s): diabetes mellitus is a public health problem and one of the five leading causes of death globally. in the present study, the effect of metformin with natural honey was investigated on glycemia in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. materials and methods: thirty wistar male rats were randomly divided into six groups including c: non ­diabetic rats received distilled water, ch...

BACKGROUND To investigate the efficacy and proposed mechanism of bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNCs) transplantation for diabetic and non-diabetic patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). METHODS One hundred and sixteen patients with STEMI who had successfully undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were divided into a diabetic group (n=51) and non-diabe...

BACKGROUND More than seventeen million Americans are afflicted with diabetes and these people have four times the rate of coronary heart disease (CHD) as non-diabetics. Furthermore, diabetic women have a 3.8 fold greater risk for CHD compared to diabetic men. Little is known why diabetic women are at an increased risk for CHD. It is possible that diabetic women with cardiovascular disease (CVD)...

Objective: To determine the differences in the inflammatory status between diabetic and non-diabetic patients and to evaluate the usefulness of C reactive protein, fibrinogen, and leucocyte count as predictors of death in diabetic patients with unstable coronary disease. Design: Nested case-control comparisons of the inflammatory status between diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Prospective co...

Materials and methods Diabetes was induced by streptozotocin (40 mg/kg) in virgin female Wistar rats. After diabetes status confirmation, rats were mated. The pregnant diabetic rats were divided in four experimental groups (n minimum=12 animals/group): Non-diabetic; Non-diabetic Treated; Diabetic and Diabetic Treated. Oral administration of leaves aqueous extract of Bauhinia holophylla was give...

AIM To evaluate the caries prevalence and related variables in Type 1 diabetic and non-diabetic children and among the diabetic children according to their metabolic status. METHODS Sixty-eight diabetic and 136 non-diabetic children, matching by gender and age (4-14 years) were enrolled. The diabetic children were divided: a) 20 children in good metabolic control (Hb1ac≤7.5) and b) 48 childre...

Diet is a major aspect of glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes, particularly among the elderly. The objective of this study was to describe the food habits of elderly diabetic subjects compared with non-diabetic ones and to examine the difference between their nutritional behaviour and nutritional recommendations. This study was based on the Three City (3C) community-based cohort. The food habi...