Showing papers in "Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice in 2007"

TL;DR: The findings suggest the applicability of ethnically specific cutoff points for WC in assessing central obesity in Koreans to predict increased risk of elevated triacylglycerol, reduced HDL cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, elevated fasting plasma glucose, or two or more of these factors.

TL;DR: IFG and IGT are associated with similar, high relative risk for incident diabetes, and the combined abnormality of IFG plus IGT is associated with the highest relative risk.

TL;DR: It is concluded that monocytes from type 2 diabetic patients have a pro-inflammatory profile and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3), the active form of Vitamin D, as an anti-inflammatory agent was able to modulate inflammation in these monocytes.

TL;DR: Vildagliptin is effective and well-tolerated in drug-naïve patients with T2DM and 100 mg vildAGliptin provides similar clinical benefit whether given as single or in divided doses.

TL;DR: Control of fasting hyperglycemia is necessary but usually insufficient for achieving HbA1c goals <7% and control of postprandial hyperglycesmia is essential for achieving recommended Hb a1c Goals <7%.

TL;DR: The aim of this review was to describe the main technologies for non-invasive glucose monitoring and the corresponding most relevant devices, and to overcome the limitations of previous reviews on this topic.

TL;DR: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and the contributing risk factors were estimated by performing a cross-sectional survey conducted earlier in the rural and urban areas of all the four provinces of Pakistan.

TL;DR: An overview is given to examine potential mechanisms for the roles of GSK3 in the development of insulin resistance and two isoforms, GSK2alpha and beta, which do not completely share their physiological roles are examined.

TL;DR: This review discusses different forms of prevention, and proposes first of all to target people with Impaired Glucose Tolerance with increasing activity and altering dietary factors and population-based measures to encourage increased physical activity and decreased consumption of energy-dense foods are important.

TL;DR: This study confirms the previously reported high prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its complications in the adult population of the United Arab Emirates and assess the degree of metabolic control in subjects with diagnosed DM.

TL;DR: The results indicate that hyperglycemia causes an increase in plasma visfatin levels and, as in people with T2DM but not with IGT, this increase gets more prominent as the glucose intolerance worsens.

TL;DR: In the Iranian population, the IDF definition for MES has a good concords with the ATP III definition and a low concordance with the WHO definition.

TL;DR: Clinical trials based on this background confirmed that fundamental treatment is in fact beneficial for the prevention and halting of this intractable disorder.

TL;DR: Improvements in patient management to promote tight control of glycaemia have helped to reduce the prevalence of microvascular complications, but cardiovascular diseases continue to be the leading cause of death in patients with type 2 diabetes.

TL;DR: The results show that the amount of time insulin is used and the procedure for injection both affect the development of lipohypertrophy.

TL;DR: The higher PAR due to the IDFdefinition, with only slightly lower CVD risk than WHO, and clinical utility of the IDF definition, indicates that it may be a useful tool for CVD prevention.

TL;DR: Knowledge regarding causes of diabetes, its prevention and the methods to improve health was significantly low among the general population and diabetic subjects had better knowledge about symptoms of diabetes and the preventive aspects.

TL;DR: The self-administered diabetes risk score of Oman could identify most individuals at high risk of having type 2 diabetes in community-based settings in Oman.

TL;DR: Physical inactivity and heavy smoking increased the metabolic syndrome incidence in men and women and low or no intake of alcohol was also associated with increased risk, but in women only.

TL;DR: Camel milk consumption and lifestyle have definite influence on prevalence of diabetes, and adopting such life pattern may play protective role in preventing diabetes to some extent.

TL;DR: The results obtained assign a novel, local effect to oligomeric procyanidins and contribute to the explanation of glucose-lowering effects of Pycnogenol observed in clinical trials with diabetic patients.

TL;DR: The present study suggests that AGE-RAGE interaction inhibits the glucose uptake through the overgeneration of intracellular ROS, thus indicating that it is involved in the development of obesity-related insulin resistance.

TL;DR: In this article, a diagnostic criteria for diabetic polyneuropathy (DP) for daily practice, usefulness of the abbreviated diagnostic criteria proposed by Diabetic Neuropathy Study Group in Japan was examined in 131 diabetic patients in admission and outpatient clinic.

TL;DR: Type 2 diabetes and IGT prevalence rates vary widely amongst the world's aboriginal populations, and the hypothesis that those populations with the very highest rates of type 2 diabetes appear to have progressed past the prediabetes stages in the natural history of this metabolic disorder is consistent.

TL;DR: Almost all studies report some advantage when using insulin analogues in type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and significant benefits, including PPG lowering with the rapid-acting analogues and the potential for reduction in cardiovascular risk should be investigated further.

TL;DR: Work stress and low emotional support may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in women, but not in men, according to a case-referent study nested within a population-based health survey conducted during 1989-2000.

TL;DR: Differences in the indices of obesity, that is BMI, WHR and waist girth, may in part explain the increased prevalence, which in turn may explain due to fast-expanded urbanization.

TL;DR: Coffee but not green tea consumption was inversely associated with metabolic syndrome, and there was a high frequency of metabolic syndrome in small coffee drinkers.

TL;DR: Serum adiponectin levels are associated with serum hsCRP, IL-6 and IL-10 levels, and results suggest that adip onectin might be associated with the metabolic syndrome through regulation of pro-/anti-inflammatory cytokines.

TL;DR: The empowerment group education did improve patients' confidence in diabetes knowledge with maintained glycaemic control despite the progressive nature of the disease.