Recent reports have suggested that determination of glycosylated hemoglobin may serve as a clinical aid for long-term blood glucose control in diabetes mellitus. We describe a simple procedure for measuring it by ion-exchange chromatography. Hemolysates were subjected to Bio-Rex 70 chromatographic separation on small columns. Percentages in the normal group ranged from 4.7 to 8.8% of total hemo...

Arch and colleagues in their 24 October 2016 paper in Trials focus on the issue of centralised versus local measurement of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) in clinical trial settings. Resolution of the debate is important: while local HbA1c measurement is less costly, and would thereby ease the stretched funding situations for clinical trials worldwide, it cannot be implemented at the expense of cl...

Mauro Panteghini* and W. Garry John on behalf of the IFCC Scientific Division 1 Centre for Metrological Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (CIRME), University of Milan, Milan, Italy 2 Department of Clinical Sciences ‘‘Luigi Sacco’’, University of Milan, Milan, Italy 3 Clinical Biochemistry, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and School of Medicine Health Policy and Practice, UEA, Norwich...

objective: this study was performed to compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: short message service (sms) versus telephone call on glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c) in type 2 diabetes. material and methods: this semi-experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned into two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and short message service (n...

background: there is growing evidence that diabetes mellitus (dm) is an important risk factor for tuberculosis (tb). a significant number of dm patients have poor glycemic control. this study was carried out to find the impact of poor glycemic control on newly diagnosed smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus in a tertiary care hospital. methods: in a hospit...

abstract sleep disturbances have been shown to be associated with diabetes control, but the relation between planned wakings or napping with glycemic indices has not been evaluated yet. this study evaluated the relation between sleep quality, duration, and pattern, including daytime napping of people with diabetes and their glycemic control. a cross-sectional correlation research design was use...

An affinity-chromatographic method for determination of glycosylated hemoglobin (Anal. Lett. 14: 649-661, 1981) is compared with the thiobarbituric acid colorimetric (I) (Clin. Chem. 27: 669-672, 1981) and the ion-exchange liquid-chromatographic (II) (Diabetes 29: 623-628, 1980) methods. A correlation of 0.98 was obtained for the affinity method vs II and 0.97 for affinity vs I (n = 51). The wi...

Objective: This study was done to determine the association between lipid levels and diabetic Indices in confirm patients of myocardial infarction with versus without diabetes mellitus type II. Methodology: Two hundred acute having ST-segment elevation II were enrolled. Lipid indices measured, correlations among them analyzed. Results: Positive found triglycerides fasting blood sugar, low densi...

Cigarette smoking has been causally linked to atherosclerotic heart disease. The mechanism by which cigarette smoking causes heart disease has not, however, been determined. Nicotine has been shown to lead to increases in plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine following smoking. Catecholamines have been shown to lead to increases in blood glucose. This paper demonstrates that cigarette smoking i...