[Cross-sectional study of current situation of glycemic control with type 1 diabetes in Guangdong Province].

Objective: To investigate the glycemic control and the related factors of type 1 diabetic patients in Guangdong Province.

Methods: Medical records and blood samples of type 1 diabetic patients were collected in 89 tertiary and secondary hospitals from all of the 21 cities in Guangdong Province. The clinical data were analyzed to explore the correlates of glycemic control.

[Relationship of glucose metabolic rate and plasma levels of adiponectin and leptin in patients with metabolic syndrome].

Objective: To investigate the relationship of glucose metabolic rate (GMR) and plasma levels of adiponectin and leptin in patients with metabolic syndrome (MS).

Methods: A total of 30 MS subjects aged 36-60 years old were selected as MS group. And 20 normal adults were selected as control group.

Treatment of middle/late stage primary hepatic carcinoma by Chinese medicine comprehensive therapy: A prospective randomized controlled study.

Objective: To observe the efficacy of Chinese medicine comprehensive therapeutic project in treating the middle/late stage primary hepatic carcinoma (PHC).

Methods: With prospective randomized controlled design, 97 patients with PHC were assigned to the test group (49 cases) treated with Chinese medicine comprehensive therapy using Oleum fructus bruceas intervention combining oral intake of Ganji Decoction and external application of Ailitong, and the control group (48 cases) treated with chemotherapeutic agents combining iodized oil chemo-embolization and analgesics. The immediate and long-term efficacy, adverse reaction, pain-relieving initial time (PRIT) and pain-relieving sustained time (PRST) of the treatment, as well as the change in relieving patients' quality of life (QOL) were observed.

[Clinical observation on effect of Yiqi Yangyin Huoxue Tongfu principle in treating diabetes mellitus type 2 of secondary failure to sulfonylurea agents].

Objective: To observe the effect of Yiqi Yangyin Huoxue Tongfu (YYHT) principle in treating diabetes mellitus type 2 of secondary failure to sulfonylurea agents.

Methods: Forty patients were randomly divided into two groups, based on the unchanged previous treatment of sulfonylurea agents, Chinese decoction prescribed according to YYHT principle was given to the treated group and rosiglitazone was given to the control group. Changes of insulin sensitivity (SI), insulin response to glucose (IRG), insulin sensitive index (ISI), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), endothelin-1 (ET-1), 6-keto-prostaglandin F1alpha(6-keto-PGF1alpha) and thromboxane B2 (TXB2) were observed.