objective: serum leptin concentration reflects the body fat mass. there is controversial reports about the insulin effect on serum leptin concentration. we wanted to examine the effect of insulin therapy on serum leptin in children with new onset type i diabetes. materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in children's medical center on 34 children who had new onset type i dia...

  Purpose: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which widely affects individual health and   social performance. The purpose of this study was to compare the mental health of patients   with type I diabetes and non-diabetic individuals.   Materials and Methods: This was a comparative after-the-fact study conducted in 2011. The   participants included 50 patients with type I diabetes who were ...

background because il2ra is considered a predisposing factor in the incidence of both type i diabetes and multiple sclerosis (ms), and considering that both are autoimmune diseases, some studies suggest a correlation between type i diabetes and ms. objectives the aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of type i diabetes among people with ms. patients and methods the study subjects comp...

background: type-i diabetes is an autoimmune inflammatory disease in which pancreatic ß-cells are selectively destroyed by infiltrating cells. tnf-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (trail) is a type-ii membrane protein of the tnf superfamily which is expressed in different tissues, including pancreas and lymphocytes. in humans, trail interacts with four membrane receptors. trail-r1 and trail-r2...

Type I diabetes mellitus is a common chronic disease in adolescents. According to statistics, 12,243 diabetic Muslims fast in thirteen Islamic countries, 43% of whom have type I diabetes. This longitudinal study was conducted on volunteer adolescents with type I diabetes aged 13-18 years for 15 days using the census method. Three days before Ramadan and during the last three days of the study p...

type i diabetes mellitus (dm) is frequently associated with autoimmune thyroid disease (atd). association of atd and type i dm has been described with varying frequencies but there is still debate about the situation in the iranian population. we investigated the prevalence of anti thyroid peroxidase (anti-tpo) antibodies and atd in children and adolescents with type i dm. a total of 145 patien...