- to compare colonization of group b streptococcus (gbs) in diabetic and non-diabetic pregnant women. in this prospective study 50 pregnant women with diabetes mellitus (both pregestational and gestational) and 43 pregnant women without diabetes between 33 and 37 weeks' gestation were evaluated. three samples for group b streptococcal culture detection were obtained from each subject in the fol...

OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that the genetic susceptibility to non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus is the same as that to insulin dependent disease and to see whether glucose intolerance is associated with specific HLA haplotypes. DESIGN Population based study of men in 1989 first tested for glucose tolerance in 1984. HLA haplotypes, including HLA-A, C, B, DR, and DQ, were defined s...

objective: serum leptin concentration reflects the body fat mass. there is controversial reports about the insulin effect on serum leptin concentration. we wanted to examine the effect of insulin therapy on serum leptin in children with new onset type i diabetes. materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in children's medical center on 34 children who had new onset type i dia...

INTRODUCTION Microalbuminuria in type 1 diabetes is the earliest manifestation of diabetic microangiopathy (nephropathy). To date, the pharmacological approach to microangiopathy has not been shown to be useful. By using aminaphtone to control nephrologic complications of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus we first obtained a significant improvement in microalbuminuria confirming this new phar...

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From the School of Nursing (Drs Boehm, Schlenk, and Ronis and Ms Powers) and the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, School of Medicine (Ms Funnell), University of Michigan, and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (Dr Ronis), Ann Arbor, Michigan. Correspondence to Susan Boehm, PhD, Associate Professor and Dean, Student Affairs, The University of Michigan, School of Nursing, 400 Nort...