Publications by authors named "Abeer El Samad"

Background: The guidelines of the American Diabetes Association and European Association for the Study of Diabetes suggest that patients with obesity type 2 diabetics and chronic kidney disease need either glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor analogues or sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors. If neither achieve metabolic control, then the recommendation is to combine both drugs. The evidence base for combining glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor analogues and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors is not well researched, and hence, the impact of the guidelines is limited.

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Aim: The aim of the current study was to compare glucose responses when remotely supervised exercise was performed before or after breaking the fast, during Ramadan, in people with type 1 diabetes.

Methods: People with type 1 diabetes were recruited to this randomised cross over design study, which took place in Kuwait during Ramadan in 2021-2022. Interstitial glucose was measured using continuous glucose monitors during a baseline week of normal activity and during weeks where remotely supervised exercise was performed, three times per week, either before (afternoon) or after (evening) breaking the fast, in a randomised crossover design.

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Article Synopsis
  • - The study explored the effects of varying levels of carbohydrate intake on blood sugar levels in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D), aiming to eliminate confounding factors related to calorie and protein intake.
  • - Participants followed five different diets with carbohydrate content ranging from 10% to 30% of total calories over the span of 6 days, while monitoring their blood glucose continuously to assess glycemic control.
  • - Results showed no significant differences in blood glucose levels between the extreme dietary carbohydrate intakes (10% and 30%), indicating no clear dose-response relationship, despite minor weight changes during the study.
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Purpose: The deleterious effect of visceral adipose tissue accumulation is well known. However, the recent trend in liposuction is mal-directed toward easily accessible subcutaneous fat for the purpose of body shaping. The aim of the present study is to probe the metabolic effects of subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue lipectomy in ovariectomized obese rats as well as the role of adipokines in these changes.

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Introduction: Day-long fasting creates considerable metabolic stress that poses challenges in people with diabetes and those who have undergone bariatric surgery. Clinical knowledge of glucose fluctuations and the risks for such patients during fasting is limited.

Objectives: This study examined the effect of intermittent fasting on glucose excursions, hypoglycemia, and hyperglycemia in people with or without diabetes who had sleeve gastrectomy compared with healthy individuals.

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Background: Resistance exercise is known to be effective in reducing glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) in people with type 2 diabetes. However, studies, so far, have employed supervised resistance exercise in a laboratory or gym facility which limits the future translation of such exercise in to clinical practice and recommendations. Our primary aim, therefore, is to test the hypothesis, in a randomized controlled trial, that home-based resistance exercise training and gym-based resistance exercise training both reduce HbA1c levels in people with type 2 diabetes compared to control.

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Fasting during Ramadan is a form of intermittent fasting in which a person abstains from oral intake between the hours of sunrise and sunset. The fasting month of Ramadan is observed by Muslims worldwide. People with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) who choose to fast during Ramadan are at a particularly high risk of acute diabetes complications including hypoglycemia and significant hyperglycemia.

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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPARα) is physiologically highly expressed by hepatocytes, where it plays a pivotal anti-inflammatory and metabolic role. The decrease expression and functional activity of PPARα in hepatocytes during hepatitis C virus infection may contribute to the pathogenesis of the disease in humans. This study aims at evaluating the effects of PPARα activation with fenofibrate (FF) on liver inflammation, fibrosis and portal pressure (PP) in Concanavalin A (Con A)- induced hepatitis in rats.

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