PATHOGENESIS OF TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

 Before the discovery of insulin, type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) was a disease with acute evolution, leading to death shortly after diagnosis. During the first years of insulin therapy, the medical world was optimist...

SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY TO CORRECT OBESITY AND ASSOCIATED CO-MORBIDITIES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

Obesity has become a serious health problem and it is a major risk factor for the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has revealed to be effective...

DIABETES MELLITUS EPIDEMIOLOGY

The worldwide diabetes epidemics is evolving proportionally with the overweight/obesity epidemics. 246 million people with diabetes (type 2 diabetes constituting about 90%) were registered worldwide in 2007. It was estim...

CORRELATIONS BETWEEN PRO-INFLAMMATORY MARKERS AND GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN IN TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS

Background and Aim. Markers of inflammation are predictive of diabetic macrovascular complications. In type 2 diabetes, inflammation might be responsible for enhancing insulin resistance and may contribute to the reducti...