conclusions consumption of walnut oil (15 g/day for three months) was shown to improve blood glucose level but, no changes were noted for bodyweight and blood pressure in type two diabetic patients. results the two groups were not significantly different for sbp, dbp, body weight, and body mass index. hba1c level decreased significantly in the experiment group by 7.86% ± 21.97 (p = 0.005) from ...

conclusions our study showed that arm is a useful approach in determining which combinations of variables or predictors occur together frequently, in people who will develop diabetes. the arm focuses on joint exposure to different combinations of risk factors, and not the predictors alone. background type 2 diabetes, common and serious global health concern, had an estimated worldwide prevalenc...

objective(s): the object of the study is to examine the effects of δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (thc) against oxidative stress in the blood and excretion of thc metabolites in urine of type 2 diabetic rats. materials and methods: the control (n=8), thc control (n=6), diabetes (n=8) and diabetes + thc (n=7) groups were created. type 2 diabetes was induced by nicotinamide (na, 85 mg/kg) + streptozotoc...

abstract objective: it has been reported that adenosine deaminase (ada) is a good marker for insulin function but its clinical significance in type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) is not yet characterized. this study aims to assess the association of ada with glycated hemoglobin (hba1c) and uric acid (ua) in t2dm patients. materials and methods: the study population consisted of 120 subjects divided...

conclusions these findings suggest that apelin does not play any significant role in regulating the pain threshold in type 1 diabetes mellitus during exercise training. results plasma apelin level was higher (0.3 vs. 0.1, p < 0.0001) and the tail-flick latency was lower (2.2 vs. 3.8, p < 0.0001) in the d group than in the nd group. after the training program, plasma apelin levels decreased in t...

background: the aim of the present clinical trial was to investigate the efficacy of autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (bm-mscs) in glycemic control of diabetic patients without using any immunosuppressive drugs over a nine-month period. method: twenty-three patients with t1dm, at 5 to 30 years of age and in both sexes, participated in this study. this trial consisted of two phases;...

abstract background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the psychosomatic disorders that stress playing an important role in causing, severity, and long term situation. the present study conducted to determine the association of personality type a and b to type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients’ referring to diabetes center. methods: in the descriptive correlation study, 50 diabetic type 2 patien...

recent studies suggested the role of white blood cells (wbcs) in the pathogenesis and complications of type 2 diabetes. increased wbc counts predict mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd). in this study alterations in wbc subpopulations in diabetic patients with non-dialysis dependent ckd are investigated. this was a cross-sectional study  on 376 participants, including   272 d...

docosahexaenoic acid (dha), as an omega-3 fatty acid, in a natural ligand of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (ppars). regarding the combinative effects of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics and due to the lack of in vivo studies conducted using natural ligands of ppars, we aimed to evaluate the effects of dha supplementation on vascular function, telomerase activity, and pparγ-lxrα-abc...

patients and methods this prospective cohort study was performed on 90 diabetic type 2 patients with microalbuminuria, who were selected according to the consecutive sample selection method during 6 years. data were collected through regular and systematic measurements of serum albumin as the response variable and body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, the duration of diabetes,...