abstract background: hope is the most important factor in diabetic patients’ life. the level of hope may be changing among these individuals as a result of chronic nature of diabetes and its complications. when the level of hope increases among these patients, they can resist against physical and psychological complications of diabetes more, accept the treatment better, enjoy life more, and ada...

BACKGROUND Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is common in diabetics and predisposes these patients to more severe urinary tract infections (UTIs). Reports on the prevalence and etiology of ASB especially in developing countries appear contradictory. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and etiology of ASB and antimicrobial resistance of urinary isolates in diabetics and non-diabetics. METHOD...

Background: To evaluate if the risk for developing atrial fibrillation after lung surgery is higher for diabetics than non-diabetic patients and whether diabetic status prolongs the length of in-hospital stay. Objective: To compare the outcome of amiodarone prophylaxis in diabetics and non-diabetics. Design: Subgroup analysis within a randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial. Results: Devel...

Diabetes mellitus leads to long-term complications involving multiple organs and systems of the human body. Among list complications, a relatively vascular complication increases morbidity condition. Patients with diabetes are influenced by various factors like hyperglycaemic state, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, metabolic condition obesity, all mentioned conditions also present platelet...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a well-known cause of sudden mortality. Due to autonomic imbalance, those patients who are suffering from ischemic heart disease and diabetes concurrently are at a greater risk of manifesting arrhythmias. Heart rate variability (HRV) can be utilised for assessment of autonomic nervous system. The purpose of this study was to identify the values of HRV in diabetic and non-...

diabetes mellitus is one of the common diseases leading to dialysis. in a cohort study, diabetic dialysis patients were compared with non-diabetic dialysis patients for one year about age, sex, cause and times of admission and rate of mortality. the study was done on 101 patients. at the end of the study, 88 patients remained. results were interprected by t-test and chi-square statistical analy...

background: diabetes mellitus, according to world health organization (who) is a silent epidemic which affects large number of people around the world and is directly related to the oral health status of the patients. objectives: to know the prevalence of common dental diseases such as dental caries, periodontal diseases (pyorrhea), and treatment needs in a group of adult diabetic patients in p...

Phenotype distributions of some genetic polymorphisms are reported in a sample of 721 diabetics and 515 non-diabetic, non-blood donor controls. Reference is also made, in the case of the ABO and Rhesus systems, to previously published results for blood donors resident in the Durham area. Non-insulin-taking diabetics show an increased frequency of blood group A1 (and A1 + A2) when compared with ...

PURPOSE To compare the levels of calcium and phosphorus in the aqueous humor and serum of diabetics and non-diabetics. METHODS We divided patients into two groups: seventy-six non-diabetic cataract patients and fifty-two diabetic cataract patients. The diabetic group was divided again into three subgroups: twenty-six patients with no diabetic retinopathy, thirteen patients with non-proliferat...