Monocyte phenotype as a predictive marker for wound healing in diabetes-related foot ulcers.

Aims: Delayed healing of diabetes-related foot ulcers (DRFUs) is associated with increased macrophage and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) at the wound site. Whether circulating monocyte phenotype and/or MMPs are altered in association with wound healing outcome is unknown, and was investigated in this study.

Methods: Blood was obtained from 21 participants with DRFU, at initial visit (V1), week-4 (V2), and week-8 (V3) for measurement of monocyte number (CD14), phenotype (CD16, CD163) and chemokine receptors (CCRs) by flow cytometry, and circulating MMPs and TIMP-1 by ELISA.

Maternal vs paternal diabetes: The parental history is different in younger onset versus older onset type 2 diabetes.

Background: A number of previous studies exploring family history of type 2 diabetes have reported a predominance of maternal diabetes. These studies have not explicitly compared parental history of diabetes across the spectrum of disease onset from youth to later adulthood.

Methods: Family history data from 11,467 patients with type 2 diabetes were extracted from the RPA Diabetes Centre database.

Cardiac Effects of Sulfonylurea-Related Hypoglycemia.

Objective: To determine the effect of sulfonylurea-related hypoglycemia on cardiac repolarization and ectopy in the setting of well-controlled type 2 diabetes.

Research Design And Methods: Thirty subjects with sulfonylurea-treated type 2 diabetes underwent 48 h of concurrent continuous glucose monitoring and ambulatory electrocardiography. Ventricular repolarization (QTc) and QT dynamicity were analyzed during periods of hypoglycemia (<3.

Hypoglycaemia and QT interval prolongation: Detection by simultaneous Holter and continuous glucose monitoring.

This study using simultaneous Holter and continuous glucose monitoring demonstrates that prolongation of QT interval can occur with hypoglycaemia in an ambulatory setting in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes treated with insulin. This highlights the potential proarrhythmic harms associated with hypoglycaemia.

The effects of diabetes and aminoguanidine treatment on endothelial function in a primate model of type 1 diabetes.

Abnormalities of endothelial function have been demonstrated in diabetes and are thought to play a role in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications. The aims of this study were to determine whether aminoguanidine, an inhibitor of glycation, can prevent endothelial and microcirculation abnormalities in a primate model of type 1 diabetes. Male baboons (Papio hamadryas) were assigned to one of the four groups: control, diabetes, control treated with aminoguanidine or diabetes treated with aminoguanidine.

Detection and characterisation of microcirculatory abnormalities in the skin of diabetic patients with microvascular complications.

The aim of this study was to characterise microvascular blood flow in the skin and to compare it with biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction and tissue inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes with (n=20) or without (n=20) microvascular complications and 20 control subjects. Microvascular function was measured by laser Doppler velocimetry in combination with iontophoresis of acetylcholine (ACh) and sodium nitroprusside (SNP). Blood was collected for measurement of biomarkers including plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule (sICAM), soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule (sVCAM) and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP).