Diabetes Complications - Drug therapy
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

[Hypertension in diabetes mellitus]

25 Sep 2009 Hypertension can be detected very often in patients with diabetes mellitus. In some cases, hypertension develops as a consequence of diabetic nephropathy. Although diabetic nephropathy may occur both in type 1 and in type 2 diabetes, some ... Read more...

Restoring erectile function by antioxidant therapy in diabetic rats.

15 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: Diabetes mediates an increase in reactive oxygen species that can lead to impaired endothelial function, decreased smooth muscle in the diabetic corpus cavernosum and increased apoptosis. We hypothesized that antioxidant therapy may restore ... Read more...

Type 2 diabetes: where we are today: an overview of disease burden, current treatments, and treatment strategies.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To provide an overview of the disease burden and current strategies in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. DATA SOURCES: Medline search of all relevant clinical and review articles. STUDY SELECTION: By the author. DATA ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Diabetes Complications - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Hypertension in diabetes mellitus] 25 Sep 2009
• Restoring erectile function by antioxidant therapy in diabetic rats. 15 Sep 2009
• Type 2 diabetes: where we are today: an overview of disease burden, current treatments, and treatment strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• Anticoagulatory, antiinflammatory, and antioxidative effects of protocatechuic acid in diabetic mice. 10 Aug 2009
• Breast abscesses in nonlactating women with diabetes: clinical features and outcome. 30 Jul 2009
• Improved left and right ventricular functions with trimetazidine in patients with heart failure: a tissue Doppler study. 20 Jul 2009
• Obesity and lymphocyte subsets in virologically suppressed HIV-infected patients. 16 Jun 2009
• Reducing morbidity and mortality in high risk patients with statins. 5 Jun 2009
• The acute effect of Orlistat on dietary glycotoxins in diabetics and healthy women. 30 May 2009
• [Efficacy and safety of ezetimibe/simvastatin combination therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease] 22 May 2009
• Dyslipidemia treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus in a US managed care plan: a retrospective database analysis. 16 May 2009
• A call to incorporate the prevention and treatment of geriatric disorders in the management of diabetes in the elderly. 12 May 2009
• [Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in the diabetic: a better known pathology in Tunisia] 29 Apr 2009
• Carnosine, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. 29 Apr 2009
• Cardiac ischemia and reperfusion in spontaneously diabetic rats with and without application of EGb 761: II. Interstitium and microvasculature. 29 Apr 2009
• Pioglitazone promotes survival and prevents hepatic regeneration failure after partial hepatectomy in obese and diabetic KK-A(y) mice. 29 Apr 2009
• Therapies for hyperglycaemia-induced diabetic complications: from animal models to clinical trials. 29 Apr 2009
• Lost in translation: modulation of the metabolic-functional relation in the diabetic human heart. 19 Apr 2009
• [Challenge in diabetes therapy: effects of glitazones beyond blood glucose control] 19 Apr 2009
• Pioglitazone improves cardiac function and alters myocardial substrate metabolism without affecting cardiac triglyceride accumulation and high-energy phosphate metabolism in patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus. 4 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Diabetes Complications'

Definition: Conditions or pathological processes associated with the disease of diabetes mellitus. Due to the impaired control of BLOOD GLUCOSE level in diabetic patients, pathological processes develop in numerous tissues and organs including the EYE, the KIDNEY, the BLOOD VESSELS, and the NERVE TISSUE.

Descriptor UI: D048909

Alternative terms: Diabetes Complications; Diabetes Complication; Diabetes-Related Complications; Diabetes Related Complications; Diabetes-Related Complication; Diabetic Complications; Diabetic Complication; Complications of Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetes Mellitus Complication; Diabetes Mellitus Complications;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C19.246.099;

History Note: 2005

Technical Notes: general only; prefer /compl with specific type of diabetes + specific complication: Manual 23.25.3.1