The diabetic lung.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic drew our attention to the interplay between pulmonary health and diabetes. The impact of poorly controlled diabetes in worsening COVID-19 outcome is well-recognized. This article explores the broad spectrum of associations between the lung and diabetes.

Primary thyroid lymphoma: Case series of patients from a developing country.

This communication describes the screening and diagnostic tools that can be used to identify obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). It highlights the need to screen for OSA in all persons with metabolic syndrome and uses the term 'somnometabolic syndrome' to emphasise this. Somnometabolic syndrome can be easily screened at the primary care level, and should be an integral part of diabetes care.

Diabetic tuberculosis.

Diabetes and tuberculosis coexist together, and influence each other's natural history and treatment outcomes significantly. This assumes clinical as well as public health significance. This article describes these associations, and discusses action that can be taken at the primary care level to tackle this challenge.

Infections in diabetes.

Diabetes Mellitus is a global health problem. Uncontrolled diabetes affects T cell and B cell function, causing increased predisposition to bacterial infections. Increased susceptibility to infections may precipitate metabolic complications in diabetes.

A comparison of cognitive functions in non-hypoxemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and age-matched healthy volunteers using mini-mental state examination questionnaire and event-related potential, P300 analysis.

Objective: To assess sub-clinical cognitive dysfunctions in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients having no hypoxemia vs. age-matched healthy volunteers using (i) an electrophysiological test: Auditory event related potential, P300 test and (ii) a questionnaire tool: Mini-mental state examination (MMSE) questionnaire.

Materials And Methods: EIGHTY MALE SUBJECTS WERE INCLUDED: 40 stable COPD patients (smoking history >20 pack years) and 40 healthy volunteers (HVs).

A young non-immunocompromised woman with diffuse alveolar opacities.

Diffuse alveolar opacities (DAO) due to pulmonary tuberculosis are usually described in immunocompromised patients. In adult patients residing in high endemic areas such as India, alveolar opacities are not reported frequently in non-immunocompromised pulmonary tuberculosis patients. We describe a twenty-five-year-old woman who presented with bilateral diffuse alveolar opacities and initial diagnostic work up was directed to non-tuberculosis etiologies.

Assessment of visual evoked potentials in stable COPD patients with no visual impairment.

Objective: To assess whether patients having stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with no clinical evidence of visual impairment or peripheral neuropathy have visual evoked potentials (VEP) abnormalities on electrophysiologic evaluation.

Methods: In the present study, 80 male subjects with no clinical neuropathy or visual impairment were included; 40 COPD patients and 40 age-matched healthy volunteers. The characteristics of subjects including age, quantum of smoking, duration of illness (in COPD patients only), and spirometric indices {forced expiratory volume in first second (FEV₁), FEV₁/forced vital capacity (FVC) %, and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR)} were assessed.

Tuberculosis and nutrition.

Malnutrition and tuberculosis are both problems of considerable magnitude in most of the underdeveloped regions of the world. These two problems tend to interact with each other. Tuberculosis mortality rates in different economic groups in a community tend to vary inversely with their economic levels.

Evaluation of brain stem auditory evoked potentials in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Unlabelled: Though there are few studies addressing brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), subclinical BAEP abnormalities in stable COPD patients have not been studied. The present study aimed to evaluate the BAEP abnormalities in this study group.

Materials And Methods: In the present study, 80 male subjects were included: COPD group comprised 40 smokers with stable COPD with no clinical neuropathy; 40 age-matched healthy volunteers served as the control group.