Today, we are in a position where we can manage most of the acute complications associated with diabetes quite adequately.
11th January 1922 is a red letter day in the history of diabetes. Culminating a summer of hard work, epoch making experiments...
Diabetes and high blood pressure are two powerful, if independent, risk factors leading to many serious complications....
Renal dysfunction is fairly common in people with diabetes. Approximately 25% to 40% of patients with Type 1 diabetes ultimately .....
In Greek mythology, there was once a great warrior called Achilles. When he was a small baby, the Gods told his mother to dip him in river Styx
Macrovascular disease is a well known complication of diabetes mellitus. Atherosclerotic changes appear in a diabetic at a much earlier age
The accompanying relative informed the resident on duty that due to the fact that the patient regularly got up...
More than 2000 years back, Charak, in his Charak Samhita advocated the use...
The prevalence of diabetes is increasing quite rapidly in our country. In fact, most people now feel that we should consider this as an "epidemic"!
One of the major aspects of a good diabetic management is that the blood glucose levels should be optimally controlled...
Life was so much simpler 25 years back. That is all the more true when one considers oral agents used in treating diabetes....
The relationship between diabetes and the peripheral nerves has been known for quite a long time. Rollo is credited as being .....
Hypoglycemia is considered by many to be the most common emergency associated with...
They continue to be important causes of morbidity and mortality among patients with diabetes in spite of...
Patients with diabetes have an increased prevalence of factors known to increase the risk of cardiovascular...
In India, today, diabetes ranks the second most common cause of blindness, right after cataracts.....
Erectile dysfunction is defined as the persistent inability to attain or maintain penile erection sufficient for sexual intercourse...
Our knowledge about female sexual dysfunction, especially in women with diabetes, has been minimal. Little progress has been accomplished...
Diabetes is so widespread that there would be hardly any doctor who does not treat people with diabetes. In today's world, the big "buzz" word is...
All of you have patients with diabetes. It has been estimated that every fourth patient that a Consultant sees will have diabetes......
Diabetes mellitus is a " hormono-metabolic" disorder characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both.
Safety and simplicity are the watchwords of the surgical management of diabetic patients. Safety should be ensured if the following protocols are observed...
Our traditional indian diets, with slight modification, are close to what is now considered ideal diabetic diets!
Implies the diagnosis of, the presence of the long term complications in their early and initial stages!