In patients without a history of diabetes mellitus, increased levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) are associated with higher cardiovascular risk. The relation between undetected diabetes and clinical outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention is unknown. To investigate whether these patients may have an increased risk of periprocedural myocardial infarction (PMI), the most frequent adve...

OBJECTIVES To describe the baseline characteristics and management of patients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM) hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to assess the influence of DM on hospital outcomes and hospital mortality. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We analyzed data from a 6-month observational study (Kuwait Acute Coronary Syndrome Registry) of unselected patients admitte...

BACKGROUND Body weight, body mass index, fibrinogen concentration and relative plasma viscosity can contribute to the development of hypertension in diabetics. This study compares body weight, body mass index, fibrinogen concentration and relative plasma viscosity between hypertensive diabetics, normotensive diabetics and healthy controls. METHODS The present study was carried out on normoten...

OBJECTIVE To compare the visual outcomes of phacoemulsification surgery with intraocular lens (IOL) in persons with and without diabetes at end of follow-up. METHODS This was a comparative, cross sectional, observational study with Non-probability, purposive sampling. After approval from "Research Ethical Committee of Isra Post-graduate Institute of Ophthalmology Karachi, 92 patients with cat...

Transient electromagnetic fields (dirty electricity), in the kilohertz range on electrical wiring, may be contributing to elevated blood sugar levels among diabetics and pre-diabetics. By closely following plasma glucose levels in four Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics, we find that they responded directly to the amount of dirty electricity in their environment. In an electromagnetically clean enviro...

Background: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has become a major health problem worldwide. American Diabetes Association has considered HbA1C levels ≤ 6.5 % as the prime target for glycemic control and as a diagnostic criterion for DM. Anemia is common in DM (8-66%). Studies on alteration of HbA1C in IDA have conflicting results. Objectives: To identify and compare the effect of IDA on HbA1C levels among ...

Objective: To study the level of serum alkaline phosphatase in diabetic patients with periodantitis and compare to control group. Material and Methods: This study was carried out in Pathology Department Gomal Medical College Dera Ismail Khan, from Jan. 2006 to June 2007. Subjects of type-2 diabetes mellitus having periodontitis (group A), diabetics without periodontitis (group B), non-diabetics...

BACKGROUND South Asians have a high tendency to develop type 2 diabetes even at low BMI. We evaluated serum leptin levels in a group of non-obese type 2 diabetics. METHODS An observational study conducted on 90 subjects, 55 with Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and 35 normal controls (non-diabetics). BMI, waist circumference, serum leptin, and serum glucose were measured. The correlation between the...

SYNOPSIS The fibrinolytic response of 30 diabetic patients and 35 non-diabetics to 0-5 mg. subcutaneous adrenaline was measured, using the dilute clot lysis test. With the exception of two patients out of six who were taking phenformin, who had a depressed response, the diabetics showed a similar increase in fibrinolytic activity to the non-diabetics. The diabetics in this series did not tend t...

Diabetics have greater prevalence of heart disease such as ischaemic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure [1, 2, 3]. The diabetic state shows many metabolic abnormalities which adversely influence atherosclerosis causing coronary artery disease and peripheral vascular disease. The overall prevalence of CAD as assessed by various tests including ...