Diabetes

Prevalence and risk factors of chronic kidney disease in an african semi-urban area: Results from a cross-sectional survey in Gueoul, Senegal.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health priority worldwide; however, its prevalence and inci...

Pattern and predictors of urine protein excretion among patients with type 2 diabetes attending a single tertiary hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.

Testing for proteinuria is used to screen for diabetic nephropathy. However, significant proportion ...

Current state of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in Egypt.

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) continue to increase in number worldwide, especially in...

Lactate levels and risk of lactic acidosis with metformin in diabetic kidney disease patients.

Metformin as an oral antidiabetic drug (OAD) is not recommended in renal failure due to the presumed...

Comparison of machine-learning algorithms to build a predictive model for detecting undiagnosed diabetes - ELSA-Brasil: accuracy study.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE:: Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease associated with a wide range of serious...

Machine Learning and Molecular Dynamics Based Insights into Mode of Actions of Insulin Degrading Enzyme Modulators.

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common lethal neurodegenerative disorders ha...

Artificial Intelligence With Deep Learning Technology Looks Into Diabetic Retinopathy Screening.

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs.

IMPORTANCE: Deep learning is a family of computational methods that allow an algorithm to program it...

Renal Function in Type 2 Diabetes Following Gastric Bypass.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic surgery for obese patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) yields short- and long-t...

P673Improvement of arterial stiffness and myocardial deformation in patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus type 2 after optimization of antidiabetic medication.

BACKGROUND: Arterial stiffness is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The pur...

Risk Factors for Hearing Impairment among Adults with Diabetes: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).

AIM: The aim was to examine risk factors for hearing impairment among Hispanic/Latino adults with di...

Effect of on metabolic syndrome parameters in diabetic patients.

AIM: The aim of this study is to survey the effect of Helicobacter Pylori on metabolic syndrome para...

Metformin Alleviates Lipopolysaccharide-induced Acute Lung Injury through Suppressing Toll-like Receptor 4 Signaling.

Signaling AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), an energy sensing enzyme, has been implicated in cont...

Effects of Rosuvastatin Alone or in Combination with Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Adiponectin Levels and Cardiometabolic Profile.

BACKGROUND: Adiponectin is an important adipocyte-related protein that has been postulated to partic...

Plasma cytokine profiling to predict susceptibility to acute mountain sickness.

Extensive studies have been performed on acute mountain sickness (AMS), but biomarkers predicting AM...

A Multi-Technique Reconfigurable Electrochemical Biosensor: Enabling Personal Health Monitoring in Mobile Devices.

This paper describes the design and characterization of a reconfigurable, multi-technique electroche...

Are Serum Levels of F2-Isoprostane and Oxidized-LDL Related to Vitamin D Status in Type 2 Diabetic Patients? A Case-Control Study.

BACKGROUND: Considerable evidence suggests that oxidative stress affects diabetes mellitus (DM) and ...

Improved Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy on a Publicly Available Dataset Through Integration of Deep Learning.

PURPOSE: To compare performance of a deep-learning enhanced algorithm for automated detection of dia...

Management of type 1 diabetes in children is boosted by robots.

A survey from the University of Liverpool concludes that young patients are receptive to the use of ...

[The Protective Effect of Tanshinone IIA on Oxygen-glucose Deprivation and Reperfusion Injury of MicrogliaThrough the NLRP3 Inflammatory Signaling Pathway].

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the protective effect of Tanshinone IIA (TSA) on oxygen-glucose deprivati...

Classification of large-scale fundus image data sets: a cloud-computing framework.

Large medical image data sets with high dimensionality require substantial amount of computation tim...