Researchers sought to examine whether there are patterns of oral hypoglycemic-agent adherence among primary-care patients with type 2 diabetes that are related to patient characteristics and clinical outcomes. Longitudinal analysis via growth curve mixture modeling was carried out to classify 180 patients who participated in an adherence intervention according to patterns of adherence to oral h...

Untreated anemia can caused significant cardiac and kidney damage. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency of anemia and hyperglycemia treatment in type 2 diabetes and their impact on kidney and heart impairment. The study is clinical retrospective and prospective and it was conducted in Clinic of Endocrinology, Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Diseases, University Clinical Cente...

OBJECTIVE Report the results of hyperglycemia in the patients with acute cerebral infarction. MATERIAL AND METHOD A retrospective review of 231 patients who presented with the syndrome of acute cerebral infarction at Ratchaburi Hospital from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2004. Patients data, diagnosis, blood glucose, and underlying disease were collected from medical records (n = 231). RE...

Methods of 1-[2-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-R(1)-phenyl]-3-R(2)-phenyl(ethyl)ureas and R(1)-tetrazolo[1,5-c]quinazolin-5(6H)-ones synthesis were designed. IR, LC-MS, (1)H NMR, and elemental analysis data evaluated the structure and purity of the obtained compounds. Different products, depending on the reaction conditions, were distinguished and discussed. The preliminary hypoglycemic activity of 36 synt...

Metastasis is an intricate process by which a small number of cancer cells from the primary tumor site undergo numerous alterations, which enables them to form secondary tumors at another and often multiple sites in the host. Transition of a cancer cell from epithelial to mesenchymal phenotype is thought to be the first step in the progression of metastasis. Recently, the recognition of cancer ...

The hypoglycemic effects of the fruit extract of C. metuliferus was investigated in normoglycemic and alloxan-induced hyperglycemic rats. The results showed that there was an insignificant (P > 0.05) decrease in the blood glucose concentration of normoglycemic rats treated with oral doses of 1000 and 1500 mg/kg of the extract. On the other hand, 500 mg/kg of the fruit extract produced an insign...

Medicinal herbs, used in indigenous medicines in crude forms for the management of diabetes mellitus, contain both the organic and inorganic constituents. The aim of the study was to find out the hypoglycemic effect of Ficus racemosa in a group of diabetic subjects taking oral hypoglycemic drug. Twenty five of each, male and female, diabetic patients, selected from Fatima Jinnah Medical College...

We describe an analysis for metformin in plasma and urine by use of cation-exchange "high-performance" liquid chromatography. The assay requires only 0.5 mL of sample and involves pretreatment with trichloroacetic acid containing an internal standard (1-propylbiguanide), followed by centrifugation and injection into the chromatograph. The column eluent is monitored at 230 nm. Metformin and 1-pr...

A case of intoxication from the oral hypoglycemic drug metformin is presented. A number of published liquid chromatographic methods were combined to enable a simplified analysis of metformin in both antemortem and postmortem specimens. The method involved direct injection of a protein-free filtrate into the liquid chromatograph. The method was sufficiently sensitive to detect therapeutic use of...

INTRODUCTION Medical nutrition therapy is integral to total diabetes care and management. Diet is the one of the treatment common to all diabetics and in the mildest cases is all that is needed to restore carbohydrate tolerance to normal. Dietary control plays a role in any of the three ways currently used in the management of diabetes which are as follows: • Diet alone • Diet and oral hypoglyc...