presence of maternal diabetes mellitus (dm) during pregnancy has important consequences for both mother and child. to determine maternal and fetal/neonatal complications of gestational dm and compare them with pre-gestational dm, a prospective study was performed in 100 diabetic women delivered in our hospital from january 2001 to april 2002. pregnancy outcome in 27 women with gestational dm an...

the clinical potentials of stem cells in cell-based therapies have raised great hopes in diabetes mellitus as well. however, there are complex ethical, legal, and socio-cultural issues surrounding the subject. in this paper, we intend to review in brief the main ethical issues for endocrinologists and other clinicians who are interested and work in the field of cell therapy and research.

epidemiology studies have demonstrated inconsistent associations between type 2 diabetes mellitus and the risk of malignant melanoma. to this end, the aim was to perform a meta-analysis of cohort studies.medline, pubmed, embase and the cochrane library were searched up to february 2014. cohort studies addressing the relative risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus on malignant melanoma were included i...

use of medicinal plants for attenuation of hyperglycemia and restoration of lipids disorder to normal level is clinically very important. the aim of present study was to evaluate the effects of berberis integerrima bge. fruit aqueous extract (bifae) on blood glucose and lipid profile in streptozotocin (stz) - induced diabetic rats. the stz-induced diabetic rat were treated by fruit aqueous extr...

introduction: measurement of diabetes management effectiveness includes the process of care and its quality, health outcome and response to care before everything; it needs a conceptual framework about this universal disease. minimum data set (mds) of diabetes make this framework by using standard data element with unique definition and effectiveness indicators preparation of diabetes managemen...

abstract         background and objective: the current challenge of diabetes mellitus is to prevent its complications. these complications are directly associated with hyperglycemia in diabetics. the hba1c measurement is essential for long-term glycemic control. synchronization of hba1c measurement is important in order to avoid discrepancies between results reported by laboratories. this study...

abstract          background and objective: according to iranian, asian, indian, and chinese traditional medicine, basil is used in the treatment of different diseases. in this study, the effect of basil on lowering the blood glucose was examined in healthy and diabetic rats.         methods: sixty wistar rats were divided into a control group(n=10), a basil receiving group (n=20) and a diabeti...

conclusions vitamin d repletion for 12 weeks increased serum vitamin d concentrations and improved β-cell activity in vitamin d-deficient type ii diabetes with no significant changes in hba1c or insulin sensitivity. results median [iqr] 25(oh)d levels increased significantly in the vitamin d group as 58.1 [48, 67.3] nmol/l (p = 0.002). there was no significant difference in the change of hba1c ...

background and objective: cardiovascular disorders continue to constitute major causes of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients. in this study, the effect of chronic administration of tribulus terrestris (tt) feeding was studied on aortic reactivity of streptozotocin (stz)-diabetic rats and some underlying mechanisms were investigated.    materials and methods: male diabetic rats receive...

diabetes mellitus is a progressive disease. most investigators have focused on glomerular changes in diabetic kidney and non-glomerular alterations have been less attended. the present study has been conducted to find early non-glomerular histological changes in diabetic renal tissue. twenty male wistar rats weighting 200-250 g were used for the diabetic group. diabetes mellitus was induced by ...