In order to optimize the quality of our care, we have used the Ames Memory Glucometer in our computerized management of 17 insulin-dependent diabetic pregnancies. Patients measured their own blood glucose levels on 4.5 +/- 1.2 (SD) occasions per day, and six of them transmitted their blood glucose measurements telemetrically from home into a hospital-based computer on a total of 42 occasions. W...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease of the carbohydrate metabolism that, when not rigorously controlled, compromises systemic and organ integrity, thereby causing renal diseases, blindness, neuropathy, arteriosclerosis, infections, and glandular dysfunction, including the salivary glands. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the qualitative and quan...

AIM To study the relation between adiponectin level with glycemic control and complication of diabetes. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 40 female adolescent type 1 diabetic patients and 40 healthy volunteers of the same age and sex. Blood sample was taken for assessment of glycosylated hemoglobin, lipid profile and adiponectine. Urine sample was taken for assessment of albumin/creatin...

AIM To evaluate intrarenal resistivity index (RI) and different biomarkers of diabetic nephropathy (DN) with clinical signs of DN and its progression over time as early detection of DN. PATIENTS AND METHODS This longitudinal study included 48 type 1 diabetic patients who were studied at baseline and after three years. A blood sample was taken for assessment of glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1),...

A diabetes protocol characterized by self-monitoring of blood glucose was introduced in four general practices with the aim of making the frequency of consultations dependent on the metabolic regulation and emphasizing body weight reduction. The feasibility of the programme was investigated and the results after 1 year were compared with those of conventional care in four control practices. In ...

Serial electroencephalographic recordings were made in 70 diabetic children and findings were related to age at electroencephalography and at diagnosis, duration of diabetes, daily insulin dose, long term metabolic control assessed by glycated haemoglobin A1 (HbA1) concentrations, and severe hypoglycaemic episodes. Abnormalities were found in 18 (26%) of diabetic children, and in only five (7%)...

The metabolic control, assessed from the mean daily glucosuria, mean daily glucosuria index based on home tests, and mean haemoglobin A1 (HbA1) concentrations during 1980, and the influence of various factors on the control were analysed in 177 diabetic children and adolescents. The mean daily glucosuria was 21% of the carbohydrates in the subscribed diet, and the mean glucosuria index 55%. The...

Maternal haemoglobin Al, (HbA,,) values were measured before the end of the 15th week of gestation in 142 pregnancies in women with insulin dependent diabetes. In pregnancies complicated by fetal malformations (n=: 17) the mean initial HbAl, value was 9 5 (SD 1 8)% of the total haemoglobin concentration, which was significantly (p <0 001) higher than in pregnancies without malformations (8 0 (S...

We investigated the effect of aging on the level of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1) in healthy subjects and diabetic patients. On the basis of our findings in this study, and using the HbA1c level as an index to long-term plasma glucose control, we compared it with the levels of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and post-prandial plasma glucose (PPG) in different age groups subjected to different the...