Browsing by Subject "diabetes mellitus"
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Achados otoneurológicos em indivíduos portadores de Diabetes mellitus Tipo 1
(ABORL-CCF Associação Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, 2007-02-01)Metabolic alterations, as they occur in Diabetes mellitus, have been mentioned in the development and maintenance of complaints related to the vestibular and auditory organs. AIM: To investigate the vestibular system in ...
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Aerobic bacterial conjunctival flora in diabetic patients
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004-03-01)Objective: To study the aerobic conjunctival flora of diabetic patients and its relation to the presence and level of diabetic retinopathy and the duration of the disease.Methods: one hundred three patients from the diabetic ...
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Angiotensin II antagonists - therapeutic benefits spanning the cardiovascular disease continuum from hypertension to heart failure and diabetic nephropathy
(Librapharm, 2006-01-01)Background: the cardiovascular benefits of angiotensin II antagonists (AIIAs) have been evaluated not only in terms of their ability to lower blood pressure but also on their ability to prevent strokes, cardiac events, and ...
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Associação do eletrocardiograma com diabete melito e síndrome metabólica em nipo-brasileiros
(Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC, 2009-05-01)BACKGROUND: When the Japanese immigrated to the Americas, they were subjected to Westernization, with a great change in lifestyle, specially in dietary habits, and this may explain the increase in the incidence of diabetes ...
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Association of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene intron 4 polymorphism with end-stage renal disease
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007-06-01)Background: Nitric oxide (NO) released from endothelial cells is related to the maintenance of physiological vascular tone. the impairment of endothelial NO generation brought about by gene polymorphism is considered one ...
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Association of somatic and N-domain angiotensinconverting enzymes from Wistar rat tissue with renal dysfunction in diabetes mellitus
(J R A A S Ltd, 2007-03-01)Diabetes mellitus (DM) is characterised by alterations in the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system (RAS). Insulin treatment may reverse these changes by an unknown mechanism. We aimed to verify the association between somatic ...
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Chorea-ballism as a manifestation of decompensated type 2 diabetes mellitus
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007-03-01)Chorea and ballism are movement disorders that result from a variety of conditions. Hyperglycemia is an unusual recognized cause of these movement disorders. We report 3 cases of new-onset choreaballism induced by nonketotic ...
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CHOROIDAL THICKNESS in PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC RETINOPATHY ANALYZED BY SPECTRAL-DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012-03-01)Purpose: This study was designed to examine choroidal thickness in patients with diabetes using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.Methods: Forty-nine patients (49 eyes) with diabetes and 24 age-matched normal ...
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Comparação da coronariografia de mulheres diabéticas e não-diabéticas com síndrome coronariana aguda sem supradesnivelamento de ST
(Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC, 2006-02-01)OBJECTIVE: Compare hemodynamic and angiographic patterns, as well as atherosclerotic lesion morphology, in diabetic and non-diabetic females with unstable angina or non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (UA/NSTEMI). ...
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Comparison of full-field electroretinogram in diabetic and non diabetic dogs with cataracts
(Colégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal - CBPAEmpresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), 2010-12-01)Being the commonest ocular disorder, dense cataracts disable fundoscopic examination and the diagnosis of retinal disorders, which dogs may be predisposed. The aim of this study was to compare the electroretinographic ...