objective: gestational diabetes influences mother’s health and is accompanied by severe complications. relaxation is a complementary method for managing this disease. hence, the current study aimed to evaluate the effect of relaxation on blood sugar and blood pressure changes of women with gestational diabetes. materials and methods: in present randomized control trial, 58 patients with gestati...

conclusions the lower levels of sugar in crushed fingers compared to healthy fingers can help to diagnose gangrene in crushed fingers. objectives the current study aimed to compare the blood sugar (bs) levels measured by the glucometer in healthy and crushed fingers to predict gangrene in patients referred to 15 khordad hospital in tehran, iran. methods this cohort study was conducted on 265 pa...

background and aims: artichoke (cynara scolymus l.) is a plant of the asteraceae family. this plant is used in herbal medicine. this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of artichokeextract on insulin, glucagon, glucose, alkaline phosphatase (alp), alanine amino transferase (alt) and aspartate amino transferase (ast) in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. methods: in this experimental s...

background : substantial evidence indicates that exposure to electromagnetic fields (emf) above certain levels can affect human health through triggering some biological responses. according to who, short-term exposure to emf at the levels present in the home/environment do not cause any apparent detrimental effects in healthy individuals. however, now, there is a debate on whether long-term ex...

objectives: inflammation is a common complication in patients treated with hemodialysis and increasing in inflammatory factors such as c-reactive protein (crp) is associated with increased cardiovascular disease and mortality in these patients. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of oral l- carnitine supplementation on serum crp concentration and fasting blood sugar (fbs) in...

background: based on some estimation more than two million peoples in iran are affected by type 2 diabetes. the present study was designed to evaluate the status of diabetes control among type 2 diabetes patients in kurdistan, west of iran and its associated factors. methods: in our cross sectional study conducted in 2010, 411 type 2 diabetes patients were randomly recruited from sanandaj, capi...

background: medicinal plants with biologically active components such as antioxidant and antidiabetic are useful sources of novel therapeutics. in iran, traditionally believed that the aqueous extract of berberry fruit (berberis integerima f.) improved health, especially in people with diabetes. objective: in this study, in vitro phytochemical and antioxidant activities of b. integerrima and b....