Objective: Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most common metabolic disorders which have several oral complications such as hypofunction of salivary glands. The aim of present study was to compare the unstimulated whole saliva (UWS) flow rate in diabetic type II patients and healthy peoples who admitted in Yazd Diabetic center. Materials and Methods: In this analytic-observational study, 78 patie...

Diabetic foot ulcer is among the commonest complications of diabetic mellitus, attributing to a significant number morbidity and mortality in patients, enormous economic loss families country.

OBJECTIVE: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX) leads to some problems in the eye surgery specially cataract surgery. As the prevalence of eye problems is high in diabetic patients, we meant to assess the prevalence of PEX in diabetic patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 400 type 2 diabetic patients aged 50 or above who referred to Yazd Diabetes Research Center were sele...

The study included nineteen control subjects and fifty-nine diabetic patients. The diabetic patients were divided according to the treatment they received. Fasting blood glucose was markedly increased in all three groups, while low serum vitamin A, C and E levels were observed in diabetic patients as compared to control subjects.

Abstract Objective: Prevalence of tooth loss is higher among diabetic patients in comparison with non-diabetic patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the relationship between socket blood sugar and post-extraction complications in type II diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 80 diabetic and 80 non-dia...

background: in view of the current high prevalence of diabetes mellitus (dm) and osteoporosis, today there is great inter est in studying the possible association between these two disorders. the aim of this study was to determine the association be tween type-2 dm, and bone mineral density (bmd) in iranian women. methods: bmd was determined in the femoral neck and at the l2-l4 level (dexa) 0f ...

conclusions in conclusion, the ace and pparg genes do not have a key role in conferring risk for diabetic nephropathy. results ace id genotypes followed hardy-weinberg equilibrium in both cases and controls. but p12a genotypes deviated from hardy-weinberg equilibrium in diabetic controls. chi2 test was applied for the analysis of genotypic distributions in genotypic and dominant models. odds ra...

purpose: to evaluate the success rate of nd:yag laser membranotomy in patients with diabetic premacular hemorrhage. methods: this interventional case series included 24 eyes of 22 patients referred to retina clinic of farabi eye hospital, tehran, iran during 2000-2007 with chief complaint of sudden loss of vision and clinical diagnosis of premacular hemorrhage due to proliferative diabetic reti...

fasting serum chromium, total cholesterol hdl-cholesterol, ldl-cholesterol, triacytglycerot and blood sugar were determined in fifty two diabetic patients with no other organic diseases anil compared with those obtained from a control group including fourty two healthy volunteers matched for age, sex ami body mass irutex (bmi). fasting serum chromium and hdl-cholesterol were significantly lower...