The aim of this article is to review health-related aspects of Ramadan fasting in normal individuals and diabetics. During fasting days of Ramadan, glucose homeostasis is maintained by meal taken bepore dawn and by liver glycogen stores. Changes in serum lipids are variable and defend on the quality and quantity of food consumption and changes in weight. Compliant, well controlled type 2 diabet...

Infections tend to occur more commonly and with more severity in people with diabetes than in non diabetics. Local and systemic immunological defects are likely to be responsible for high infection rates in diabetics. Hyperglycaemia in poorly controlled diabetes provides a good environment for vast number of microorganisms including bacteria, virus and fungi. Moreover, active infection in diabe...

Ergothioneine concentrations in the blood of 113 patients with diabetes mellitus and 22 non-diabetic individuals were measured by high performance liquid chromatography. There is no statistically significant difference between the mean ergothioneine concentrations of the diabetic and non-diabetic populations but there are several significant differences within the diabetic population. Male diab...

The relationship of limited joint mobility and finger joint contractures in diabetics to age of onset, duration, and control of diabetes has not been established. We measured the mobility of metacarpophalangeal, wrist, elbow, and ankle joints and assessed the prevalence of finger joint contractures in 254 young diabetics and 110 controls. The presence of microvascular disease was assessed by op...

OBJECTIVE To compare the severity of carotid artery disease in diabetic and non-diabetic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. METHODS From January to June 2008, 379 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass surgery were preoperatively evaluated for the presence of carotid stenoses by duplex scanning. Patients were divided into two groups, Group I, 156 (41.2%) diabeti...

Background and Aim: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (T2DM) often co-exist together. NAFLD has a prevalence of 70% among T2DM patients. Both are manifestations metabolic syndrome. is also one the strongest risk factors for faster progression NAFLD. Liver fibrosis can be assessed using vibration controlled transient elastography (VCTE) early identification at-ris...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus has been established as a risk factor for stroke. Diabetes increases the risk of stroke in younger patients and diabetics are more likely to have an ischemic stroke. There are numerous studies on microvascular complications but there are only a few studies on strokes in diabetics. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the impact of diabetes on the pattern of...

A total of 224 diabetics and 221 non-diabetics (control) were involved in this study, to determine the relative incidence of diabetes mellitus in ABO/Rhesus blood group. The current criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus were applied in differentiating the diabetics from the non-diabetics. Blood group, fasting blood sugar (FBS) and random blood sugar (RBG) were determined using standar...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to to analyze the effect of Type 2 diabetes on tooth mortality, implant treatment and prosthetic status. MATERIALS AND METHODS 275 Type 2 diabetics and 300 non-diabetics, aged 40-80 years were selected for analysis. The assessment of number of teeth, missing teeth, fixed prostheses (bridge pontics), implants using panoramic radiographs and dental records ...

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to compare the Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and Non-Diabetics in terms Periodontal Disease Index (PDI). METHODOLOGY: This comparative cross-sectional recruited 105 subjects, 56 participants with periodontal disease 49 non-diabetics (comparison group) having disease. Non-probability purposive sampling method used for selecting participants. conducted at...