as diabetes and obesity rates continue to climb at astronomical rates in the middle east, future generationsare at an even greater risk for diabetes and the associated complications. many factors are at play and it isclear that creative solutions are needed to retool provider resources in the middle east towards preventionof diabetes and its complications while leveraging technology to maximize...

introduction: diabetes is one of the usual medical problems that had an important negative effect on patient’s health. researches demonstrate that there is a wide gap between recommended medical actions and received care by patients with diabetes. the aim of study was to assess the quality of care provided to patients with type 2 diabetes. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was carr...

background: the purpose of this study was to describe the first attempts and performance of health system in iran in training specialist nurses in the field of diabetes- related care and education. materials and methods: this was a qualitative content analysis. three diabetes management planners in the ministry of health and medical education, three provincial executive authorities of diabetes ...

type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with increased inflammation and accelerated atherosclerosis. the association of the pro-inflammatory and potentially pro-atherosclerotic molecule, pregnancy associated plasma protein-a (papp-a) with diabetes and vascular diseases remains to be further established. a total of 107 patients with type 2 diabetes and 101 healthy controls participated in this st...

diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic diseases in nearly all countries. it is difficult to treat and expensive to manage. the development of type 2 diabetes is strongly related to lifestyle factors, thus it might be a preventable disease. observational studies and intervention trials have shown that physical activity, weight loss and dietary intake including whole grain, dietary f...

background: the study aim was to reports detailed characteristics of nutrition research in field of diabetes, and recognize knowledge gap in nutrition science in diabetes in iran. methods: online databases of pubmed, web of science and scopus as well as national databases including sid, iranmedex, and magiran were searched up to 2015 to identify eligible articles. finally, 378 articles were inc...

diabetes is characterized by a nitric oxide deficiency at the wound site. diabetes is a factor that influences all stages of wound healing. in animals with acute experimental diabetes induced by streptozotocin (stz), the early inflammatory responses after wounding is impaired, fibroblast and endothelial cell proliferation is reduced as well as accumulation of reparative collagen and gain in wou...

to describe and compare the clinical outcome of infants born to mothers with gestational and pregestational diabetes mellitus, this study was conducted between january 2000 to january 2002 in tehran vali-e-- -asr hospital. among 4472 deliveries, we found 107 infants born to diabetic mothers out of whom 6 were twins. the prevalence of diabetes in total deliveries was 2.39%. mean age of gestation...

during last decades many researchers have focused on the conditions associated with bell's palsy including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and viral infections. this study was performed to evaluate correlation of diabetes mellitus and bell's palsy and some relevant features not discussed in the literature in an iranian population. the presence of diabetes mellitus was evaluated in a total numb...

abstract objective: this study was carried out for investigating the religion orientation relationship with coping with diabetes in type 2 diabetic patients in yazd, iran. the present study is a kind of scientific-comparative description. the research subjects comprised of all type 2 diabetic patients admitted to the hospitals in yazd. materials and methods: the study sample was consisted of 16...