Effect of Repeated Structured Diabetes Education on Lifestyle Knowledge and Self-Care Diabetes Management in Kidney Transplant Patients With Posttransplant Diabetes.

Objectives: Diabetes knowledge among kidney transplant recipients with posttransplant diabetes has not been clearly assessed. We evaluated whether diabetes education in kidney transplant recipients with posttransplant diabetes affected self-care, metabolic control variables, and reversibility of early diabetic microangiopathies.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective randomized controlled study, we enrolled 210 renal transplant recipients with posttransplant diabetes.

Effect of Structured Diabetes Education on Diabetic Angiopathies Among Kidney Transplant Recipients With Posttransplant Diabetes: Kuwait Experience.

Objectives: Diabetes knowledge among kidney transplant recipients with posttransplant diabetes has not been exhaustively assessed. Here, we evaluated the effects of structured diabetes education on development of diabetic micro- and macroangiopathies in kidney transplant patients with posttransplant diabetes.

Materials And Methods: This prospective randomized controlled study categorized 210 renal transplant patients with posttransplant diabetes mellitus into 2:1 groups according to type of diabetes education.

Assessment of Diabetes Knowledge Among Renal Transplant Recipients With Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus: Kuwait Experience.

Objectives: Diabetes knowledge among kidney transplant recipients with posttransplant diabetes has not been exhaustively assessed. We evaluated levels of diabetes knowledge among our kidney transplant patients using a 35-item diabetes self-care management questionnaire.

Materials And Methods: The study comprised renal transplant patients with posttransplant diabetes mellitus who were referred from Hamed Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center of Kuwait to the Dasman Diabetes Institute.

Angiotensin-(1-7) inhibits allergic inflammation, via the MAS1 receptor, through suppression of ERK1/2- and NF-κB-dependent pathways.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)] has anti-inflammatory effects in models of cardiovascular disease and arthritis, but its effects in asthma are unknown. We investigated whether Ang-(1-7) has anti-inflammatory actions in a murine model of asthma. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH The effects of Ang-(1-7) alone or in combination with the MAS1 receptor antagonist, A779, were evaluated over a 4 day period in an ovalbumin-challenged mouse model of allergic asthma.

Intranasal administration of NECA can induce both anti-inflammatory and pro-inflammatory effects in BALB/c mice: evidence for A 2A receptor sub-type mediation of NECA-induced anti-inflammatory effects.

The role of adenosine in allergic inflammation is unclear. This study investigated the effects of the non-selective adenosine receptor agonist, 5-N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine (NECA), on immunized only and immunized and airway challenged mice. The adenosine receptor sub-type(s) mediating the NECA effects and the A(2A) receptor mRNA expression were also investigated.