abstract background and objective: diabetes mellitus is one of complications that thalassemia major patients face with. hence, blood glucose monitoring is of vital importance to these patients. because of high level of fetal hemoglobin in these patients, the measurement of hemoglobin a1c is not reliable and should be displaced by fructosamine test. material and methods: the current descriptive ...

estrogen might play an important role in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus type 2. estrogens inhibit diabetes via distinct mechanisms particularly by reducing both hyperglycemia and plasma insulin levels. estrogen exerts its physiological effects mainly through estrogen receptors including α and β types. estrogen receptors are found in many tissues that participate in the pathogenesis of ty...

To the Editor: We recently read with interest the article by Franklin et al 1 concerning the prevalence of masked hypertension (MH) in diabetes mellitus. Analyzing data from the IDACO (The International Database of Ambulatory Blood Pressure in relation to Cardiovascular Outcome) project, the authors revealed that 42.5% of the antihyper-tensive-treated diabetics had MH (normal clinic blood press...

Analyze the risk factors associated with incidence of Diabetes Mellitus in village Kubah Sentang, Pantai Labu subdistrict. This type research is quantitative descriptive a cross sectional design. The sample this study were all respondents who diagnosed Mellitus. Consists case 30 people. diabetes mellitus are gender, education and hypertension residents District. that not related to smoking obes...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether cognitive impairment in adults with diabetes mellitus is associated with worse glycemic control and to assess whether level of social support for diabetes mellitus care modifies this relationship. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. SETTING The 2003 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Mail Survey on Diabetes and the 2004 wave of the HRS. PARTICIPANTS Adults aged 5...

To estimate the indirect costs related to productivity losses attributable premature mortality by diabetes mellitus (DM) in Colombia, 1998-2017.

background: despite the effectiveness of drug therapy in diabetes management high rates of poor adherence persist. the purpose of this study was to determine the factors influencing the medication adherence and dietary regiment in type2 diabetic patients. methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 300 type2 diabetic patients referred to general internal medicine clinic, yazd shohdaye ...

Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous group of chronic disorders of carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolism characterized by high blood glucose levels due to relative or absolute deficiency of insulin (Eiselein et al., 2004). Hyperglycemia, the primary clinical manifestation of diabetes, is associated with the development of diabetic complications. Several studies have suggested that hypergly...