OBJECTIVES To evaluate the applicability of the 50-g glucose challenge test as a screening test for gestational diabetes mellitus in relation to pregnancy outcomes. METHODS A prospective study was conducted on 818 Saudi pregnant females who were randomly recruited from the Antenatal Clinics at King Abdulaziz University Hospital and New Jeddah Clinic Hospital, Jeddah. All females underwent a 5...

BACKGROUND The frequency of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is 0.6% -15% of pregnant woman. The modern trend towards the delay starting family is the main factor responsible for increase prevalence of GDM. This condition is associated with the adverse effect on mother and fetus, so it is important to find out the GDM by screening of all the pregnant women. OBJECTIVE To observe the feasibi...

background: reported data from developed countries showed that annually a high percentage of health budgets consume for controlling and treatment of complications in diabetes disease. early diagnosis of diabetes, education and health cares, not only prevent progress of disease and complications but also it is cost effective. methods: for gestational diabetes screening, all pregnant women attend...

This paper introduces the in vitro test method of hypoglycemic components food-grade natural products. The specific steps and results experimental methods were introduced detail, including enzyme inhibition test, kinetics multispectral analysis, cell screening model molecular docking, dynamics test. Through above series tests, we can judge whether products have a lowering effect on blood glucos...

Background: Uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes in truckers can negatively affect their work performance. This paper analyses the first-year data of an eye care program for truckers to assess their need for hypertension and diabetes screening. Materials and Method: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected via eye camps for truckers held between July 2017 and June 2018. Truckers wh...

background tubercle bacilli most often are transmitted from one person by the airborne route. the aim of the present study was to determine the frequency of latent tuberculosis infection and active pulmonary tuberculosis among patients with chronic psychiatric disorders in hamedan. patients and methods in a cross sectional study, 215 patients with chronic psychiatric disorders were investigated...