Oral innate immunity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a tertiary hospital in Ibadan Nigeria: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: diabetes mellitus is associated with a high prevalence of oral infections. However, it is unclear how diabetes impacts oral innate antimicrobial proteins. This study evaluated salivary lysozyme and histatins, two major innate antimicrobial proteins, in patients with diabetes and non-diabetic controls.

Relationship between Glycaemic Control and Oral Immunologic Proteins.

Background: Attaining a good glycaemic control is usually the target for therapy in diabetic patients as this is expected to prevent both acute and chronic complications. Oral infections are however very common among diabetic patients despite the presence of many immunologic proteins in the saliva. This study was designed to determine the impact of glycaemic control on levels of these proteins in diabetic patients.

Elevation of small, dense low density lipoprotein cholesterol-a possible antecedent of atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype in type 2 diabetes patients in Jos, North-Central Nigeria.

Background: The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing. Dyslipidaemia is a known complication of diabetes mellitus manifesting frequently as cardiovascular diseases and stoke. Elevation of small, dense low density lipoprotein has been recognised as a component of the atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype associated with cardiovascular complications.

Plasma Malondialdehyde (MDA): An Indication of Liver Damage in Women with Pre-Eclamsia.

Background: One of the features associated with pre-eclampsia is elevated liver transaminases. The reason this happens has not been fully described. However, the hepatocytes are not known to be spared by free radical injury.