Conjunctive group therapy: A case study of an adult type I diabetes mellitus...
A 30-year-old woman diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus attended 2-year Conjunctive Group Therapy in parallel with medical treatment at a Greek state hospital. The study focuses on the patients...
View ArticleCould the antiglycemic role of vinegar be investigated in a double-blind trial?
We read with great interest the Mahmoodi et al.s (2013) article published in the January issue of the Journal of Diabetes and Endocrinology. The authors investigated some hematological and blood...
View ArticleQuality of life in diabetic and non diabetic patients on hemodialysis therapy
Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide public health problem and a chronic disease that deteriorates the quality of life (QOL). Diabetes is recognized as co-morbidity in patients of end stage renal...
View ArticleProtective effect of Commiphora wightii in metabolic activity of...
Herbal products are an affective move towards the treatment of diabetes and impeding its complications. However, there have been no reports to date on Commiphora wightii (EACWR) for the treatment of...
View ArticleMinocycline decreases blood glucose and triglyceride levels and reverses...
Increasing evidence suggests that oxidative stress and inflammation play major roles in diabetes mellitus and its complications. Furthermore, hyperglycemia increases the production of free radicals,...
View ArticlePulmonary artery hypertension and type 1 diabetes mellitus with suspected...
The objective of this study was to describe a constellation of rare pediatric disorders, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes (APS). This study present a brief...
View ArticleElevation of oxidative stress markers in Type 1 diabetic children
Childrens diabetes is represented by the Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). In T1DM, the persistence of hyperglycemia has been reported to cause increased production of oxygen free radicals through...
View ArticleHigh prevalence of central obesity in rural South-Western Nigeria: Need for...
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, and is now prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries. This study sets out to determine the prevalence of obesity as well as its predictors...
View ArticleDyslipidemia among diabetic patients in Southern Ethiopia: Cross-sectional...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common endocrine metabolic disorder and a leading cause of death worldwide. Dyslipidemia is a well-recognized manifestation of uncontrolled DM, because insulin has...
View ArticleEctopic growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) acromegaly secondary to...
Ectopic growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) secretion is a rare cause of acromegaly and accounts for 1% of cases. It is most commonly secondary to gastropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours and...
View ArticleReversal of Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism triggered by...
A 21-year-old male presented to us with delayed development of secondary sexual characteristics. Based on examination and investigations, a diagnosis of idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism was...
View ArticleThe utilization of HbA1c test in the screening and diagnosis of type 2...
This study aimed to assess HbA1c performance against single fasting blood glucose (FBG) for diagnosis of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) and impaired fasting glycaemia (IFG) among general medical...
View ArticleEffects of glycosylated hemoglobin levels on neutrophilic phagocytic functions
It is well established that diabetic patients with poor glycemic control have increased susceptibility to infections, but glucose levels have not been directly associated with this increase. The...
View ArticleVitamin D and Insulin resistance in gestational diabetes mellitus
This study was designed to demonstrate the relationship between 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) levels and insulin resistance (IR) in normal pregnancy and in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The...
View ArticleLower BMI cut-off than the World Health Organization-based classification is...
Universally, Body Mass Index (BMI) is used to diagnose obesity, and is associated with cardiovascular disease, as well as significant morbidity and mortality. Because the effect of obesity on health...
View ArticleLycopene attenuates diabetes-induced oxidative stress in Wistar rats
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the capacity of lycopene against diabetes-induced oxidative damage in Wistar rats. Thirty Wistar rats of both sexes, twenty-five of which were diabetic, were...
View ArticleHigh prevalence of central obesity in rural South-Western Nigeria: Need for...
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, and is now prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries. This study sets out to determine the prevalence of obesity as well as its predictors...
View ArticleDyslipidemia among diabetic patients in Southern Ethiopia: Cross-sectional...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common endocrine metabolic disorder and a leading cause of death worldwide. Dyslipidemia is a well-recognized manifestation of uncontrolled DM, because insulin has...
View ArticleEctopic growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) acromegaly secondary to...
Ectopic growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) secretion is a rare cause of acromegaly and accounts for 1% of cases. It is most commonly secondary to gastropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours and...
View ArticleReversal of Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism triggered by...
A 21-year-old male presented to us with delayed development of secondary sexual characteristics. Based on examination and investigations, a diagnosis of idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism was...
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