Cardiovascular diseases constitute a major clinical problem for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), being the most common cause of death in this population. It fully justifies the concept of a close collaboration between diabetologists and cardiologists for the optimal integrated management of diabetic patients with cardiovascular diseases in everyday clinical practice, which has bee...

BACKGROUND To analyse and compare the impact of cardiovascular risk factors and disease on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in people with and without diabetes living in the community. METHODS We used data of 1,905 people with diabetes and 19,031 people without diabetes from the last Spanish National Health Survey (years 2011-2012). The HRQoL instrument used was the EuroQol 5D-5L, based...

low plasma level of vitamin d is linked to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and peripheral vascular diseases. vitamin d deficiency is a worldwide problem that involves iranian population. to the best of our knowledge, this was the first investigation on venous thromboembolism (vte) subjects that assessed the correlation of vitamin d leve...

background: health is an important pillar of human life and the pistachio is among the nuts which have an impact on human health. the aim of this study was to review the effects of pistachios on human health. materials and methods: this was a review study. data were collected from pubmed and from among articles published from the year 2005 to 15 july 2015 using the keyword pistachio in combinat...

The practice of regular physical activity has been proposed as a determinant in many disciplines, from wellness to physiotherapy; fact, it reduces the risks cardiovascular diseases and diabetes [...]

non-communicable disease continues to be an important public health problem in india, being responsible for a major proportion of mortality and morbidity. demographic changes, changes in the lifestyle along with increased rates of urbanization are the major reasons responsible for the tilt towards the non-communicable diseases. in india, there is no regular system for collecting data on non-com...

introdouction: recent studies have reported the connection between increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes with the presence of chronic periodontitis. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between chronic periodontitis and triglyceride, high- and low-density lipoprotein (hdl and ldl), and glucose levels. materials and methods: a total of 102 individuals particip...

objective(s):in this study, we aimed at evaluation of electrophysiological and histopathalogical characteristics of statin-induced muscle injury as well as clinical features of patients who develop this condition in terms of frequency and pattern of evolution. materials and methods: forty patients (age 39-74 years) including 25 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus, 9 with cardiovascular disea...