P Mena Arias | PubMed Health

PubMed1999

[Vascular risk factors in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Correlation between albuminuria and glycosylated hemoglobin].

OBJECTIVE: This study compared 23 patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and 28 non-diabetic control subjects, seeking for associations between NIDDM and other cardiovascular risk factors. The relationship of the glycemic control with the risk factor profile was also assessed. RESULTS: The most outstanding results were: The diabetic group showed higher values in the proportion of subjects with diabetes family history (P < 0.01) and the levels of systolic blood pressure (P < 0.05), total cholesterol (P < 0.05), triglyceridemia (P < 0.001), and total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol ratio (P < 0.01). Within the diabetic group, a positive correlation (r = 0.68, P < 0.001) was found between the percent of glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) and the 24-hour urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER). CONCLUSION: We conclude that NIDDM associates to other cardiovascular risk factors. The correlation of HbA1c with UAER suggests a possible relationship between poor diabetic control and some of the secondary diabetic complications.

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PubMed1990

Relation between flight hours and peripheral nervous conduction velocity.

The peripheral nervous system is highly sensitive to variations in the internal medium. A neurophysiological study (peripheral nervous conduction velocity) and an enzymatic study (catalase and glutathione-peroxidase) were performed in both instructor and student pilots. Pilots do not show the age-dependent decrease in the peripheral sensory nervous conduction velocity observed in non-pilot subject controls. The sensory conduction velocity (SCV) was significantly (p less than 0.01) increased when hours of flight experience increased, yielding a positive correlation (r = 0.6461; p = 0.0016). A significant (p less than 0.01) increase in the erythrocite catalase and glutathione-peroxidase activities were observed in pilots vs. controls. The present data suggest that a chronically increased oxygen consumption could be the reason for the increase in peripheral nervous conduction velocity observed in pilots.

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