introduction: type ii diabetes is one of the most prevalent endocrine diseases in the world that results from a combination of insulin resistance and ß-cell failure. regarding importance of nutritional factors in management of diabetes, this study was designed to explore the effect of sesame oil on blood glucose and lipid profile in type ii diabetic patients at yazd diabetes research center in ...

background: telenursing includes every nursing and care-giving services conducted remotely. in telenursing, telephone as a device, which is available for most of the people, is being used increasingly. in a telephone-based system, patients are being contacted by health care providers on regular bases and they would be provided with some information about their illness and their treatment method...

background: patients with diabetes mellitus type ii suffer from hyperglycemia because they are not able to use the insulin that they produce, often due to inadequate function of insulin receptors. there are some evidences that this deficiency is inherited in a dominant autosomal manner and leads to the malfunction of the pancreatic beta cells resulting in insulin excretion disorders. in this st...

background: a person's beliefs can influence the progression of his/her disease; and battling an illness can trigger severe anxiety about death. this study aims to compare the attitude toward death between healthy people and those suffering from diabetes and cancer. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 300 individuals were selected by convenient sampling method. three groups were matched by gen...

objective: diabetes mellitus (dm) is a common metabolic. one of the unknown complications of dm is cognitive disorders. different types of cognitive impairment caused by dm may affect the quality of life, self-management of diabetes, and glycosylated hemoglobin. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of cognitive impairment and its relationship with glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c), diabet...

abstract introduction: there is limited knowledge available on the metabolism of glucose in the brain, an insulin insensitive organ. insulin receptors hybridize with insulin like growth factor receptor (igf-i) to transduce the signals in different areas of the brain. in this article we aimed at investigating whether the expression of igf-i receptor and igf-i binding proteins (igfbp1) is changed...

Background: Resistin and ghrelin are hormones that have roles in the glucose and lipid homeostasis and weight regulation. Human studies regarding resistin and ghrelin in diabetic patients are scarce, especially in the cases of normotensive and non-obese patients. This study was designed to illuminate some of the missing points.Methods: Eighty diabetic patients and eighty healthy individuals par...

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...