Publications by authors named "Bianca-Margareta Salmen"
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- The study examines the relationship between Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Romanian patients, highlighting the effectiveness of antidiabetic drugs like GLP-1 Ras and SGLT-2 inhibitors.
- Conducted with 405 T2DM patients, the study found that while many achieved satisfactory blood sugar levels, they struggled to meet overall health targets including blood pressure and cholesterol management.
- Results indicated a high prevalence of comorbidities, particularly hypertension and obesity, and revealed a low usage of advanced treatments like GLP-1 Ras and SGLT-2 inhibitors, along with statins.
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- - Diabetic neuropathy (DN) is a complex condition often underdiagnosed, and routine diagnostic tests like electrodiagnostic studies are rarely used in diabetes care, despite their importance in identifying neuropathies.
- - A study from a diabetes clinic in Romania examined seven type 2 diabetes patients, leading to the diagnosis of multiple entrapment neuropathies using electroneurography (ENG) and electromyography (EMG).
- - The findings suggest that electrodiagnosis is crucial for identifying focal neuropathies in diabetes patients and indicate that elevated skin autofluorescence (SAF) levels may be linked to the severity of symptoms, although larger studies are needed to confirm these results.
In this paper, we aim to evaluate the efficacy of antidiabetic cardioprotective molecules such as Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors (SGLT-2i) and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RAs) when used with other glucose-lowering drugs, lipid-lowering, and blood pressure (BP)-lowering drugs in a real-life setting. A retrospective, observational study on 477 patients admitted consecutively in 2019 to the outpatient clinic of a tertiary care unit for Diabetes Mellitus was conducted. Body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP) (both systolic and diastolic), and metabolic parameters, as well as A1c hemoglobin, fasting glycaemia and lipid profile, including total cholesterol (C), HDL-C, LDL-C and triglycerides), were evaluated at baseline and two follow-up visits were scheduled (6 months and 12 months) in order to assess the antidiabetic medication efficacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) requires non-invasive and precise techniques for evaluating the predisposing risk factors such as visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT). According to PRISMA, we developed a systematic review and searched after "visceral adipose tissue AND gestational diabetes" and identified 221 articles on the MEDLINE and Word of Science databases. After assessing them for inclusion criteria and two researchers screened them, 11 relevant articles were included.
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