The purpose of this study was to survey staff nurses on their perceived and actual level of knowledge of diabetes mellitus. A convenience sample of 184 professional staff nurses from both inpatient and outpatient settings of a large research-teaching hospital was surveyed. The Diabetes Self-Report Tool (Cronbach's alpha = .91) was used to assess staff nurses' perceptions of knowledge of diabete...

A low-grade systemic inflammation is concomitant in diabetes. There is a pathophysiological relation between gestational diabetes mellitus and type 2 diabetes mellitus, which was further supported by significantly elevated risk of type 2 diabetes in women with a history of previous gestational diabetes mellitus. We investigated the relation between low-grade systemic inflammation expressed as C...

during last decades many researchers have focused on the conditions associated with bell's palsy including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and viral infections. this study was performed to evaluate correlation of diabetes mellitus and bell's palsy and some relevant features not discussed in the literature in an iranian population. the presence of diabetes mellitus was evaluated in a total numb...

Against the background of aging population and rise in incidence diabetes mellitus, there is an increase complications, including those related to central nervous system. Today, mellitus remains a socially significant nosology, since therapy long-term complications ineffective due insufficient study mechanisms multifactorial pathogenesis. The purpose this literature review summarize modern scie...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 objectives: there is an association between viral infection and development of diabetes mellitus. this study aimed to investigate the role of rubella virus, cytomegalovirus and coxsackievirus in patients with type 1 (t1d)and type 2 (t2d) diabetes mellitus in respect to the glycemic control and immune response presented by ...

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...