objective: to determine the level of lipoprotein (a) in diabetic patients comparing to control group. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on the patients referred to endocrinology clinic of bu ali-sina hospital in 2009. 180 subjects including 90 diabetic and 90 healthy subjects as control group enrolled in this study. all diabetic patients had glycemic control. we me...

diabetic retinopathy is a common complication of type ii diabetes mellitus and carries with it the threat of blindness. accurate information regarding the incidence of diabetic retinopathy and associated risk factors is important in the prevention of its development and of the visual impairment caused by this complication. this study was designed to determine the prevalence of diabetic retinopa...

background diabetes is one of the most serious metabolic disorders to affect different organs in the body. patients with diabetes are hence at risk of developing other problems. urinary tract infections (uti) are one of the problems that occur more commonly in diabetic patients than in others. there are several risk factors that lead to the incidence of uti in diabetic patients. conclusions we ...

objective: the risk of cardiac death in diabetic patients is 3 times more than non-diabetics. but it is not determined who need cardiac screening. about 41% of diabetic patients with silent ischemia are missed. the carotid intima-media thickness (cimt) and ankel brachial index are two independent,simple and non invasive method in vascular complications diagnosis in diabetic patients.the aim of ...

background: to extract utility values of diabetic retinopathy on a perfect health and perfect vision scales for iranians with both types diabetes. methods: in this investigation, 150 untreated patients with diabetic retinopathy consecutively were examined and interviewed in farabi eye hospital, tehran, iran, a tertiary referral center in the iranian health care system. utility values based on p...

patients afflicted by diabetes mellitus (dm) usually have more infections than those without dm. the course of the infections is also more complicated in this group of patients. one of the possible causes of increased infections prevalence is a deficiency in the immunity. besides some decreased cellular responses in vitro, no disturbances in adaptive immunity in diabetic patients have been desc...

purpose: to evaluate color vision in patients with type ii diabetes mellitus without diabetic retinopathy and compare the results with those of age- and sex- matched normal individuals. methods: this descriptive, comparative study was conducted on 100 diabetic patients without any sign of retinopathy and 100 age- and sex-matched normal subjects. color vision was evaluated using ishihara and far...

Diabetic neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes. The objective our study to evaluate the prevalence diabetic via DN4 questionnaire in patients and identify factors associated with neuropathy. We included 231 patients. average age was 45.77 years, 67.1% women, 36.8% type 1 63.2% 2 diabetic, duration diabetes evolution 7, 21 years old. HbA1c 10.4%. 28.1%, it more frequent unbalanced pati...

background: helicobacter pylori infection is one of the most common chronic bacterial infections. there is challenge on the real rate of prevalence of h. pylori in diabetic patients. this study was done to assess the prevalence of h. pylori infection in children suffering from type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. methods: in this case-control study, 80 diabetic patients (as the target gr...

diabetes mellitus is one of the common diseases leading to dialysis. in a cohort study, diabetic dialysis patients were compared with non-diabetic dialysis patients for one year about age, sex, cause and times of admission and rate of mortality. the study was done on 101 patients. at the end of the study, 88 patients remained. results were interprected by t-test and chi-square statistical analy...