Risk factors for depression and anxiety in painful and painless diabetic polyneuropathy: A multicentre observational cross-sectional study.

Background: Despite the high prevalence of depression and anxiety in chronic pain conditions, current knowledge concerning emotional distress among painful diabetic polyneuropathy (pDSPN) and other diabetes mellitus (DM) sufferers is limited.

Methods: This observational multicentre cohort study employed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory II and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory to assess symptoms of depression and anxiety in several groups with diabetes, as well as in a control group. The study cohort included 347 pDSPN patients aged 63.

Sensory phenotype and risk factors for painful diabetic neuropathy: a cross-sectional observational study.

Different sensory profiles in diabetic distal symmetrical sensory-motor polyneuropathy (DSPN) may be associated with pain and the responsiveness to analgesia. We aimed to characterize sensory phenotypes of patients with painful and painless diabetic neuropathy and to assess demographic, clinical, metabolic, and electrophysiological parameters related to the presence of neuropathic pain in a large cohort of well-defined DSPN subjects. This observational cross-sectional multi-center cohort study (performed as part of the ncRNAPain EU consortium) of 232 subjects with nonpainful (n = 74) and painful (n = 158) DSPN associated with diabetes mellitus of type 1 and 2 (median age 63 years, range 21-87 years; 92 women) comprised detailed history taking, laboratory tests, neurological examination, quantitative sensory testing, nerve conduction studies, and neuropathy severity scores.

[Possibilities of influencing cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes mellitus by antidiabetic treatment Lowering of cardiovascular risk in treatment with liraglutide - Results of the LEADER].

Unlabelled: The article summarizes current knowledge about the possibilities for influencing the cardiovascular risk in treatment of type 2 diabetes, especially focusing on the results of a prospective morbidity-mortality LEADER trial, which demonstrated the superiority of liraglutide in patients with very high cardiovascular risk.

Key Words: cardiovascular risk - LEADER - liraglutid - type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Hyperuricemia contributes to the faster progression of diabetic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Aims: The aims of the study were (i) to ascertain prognostic value of serum uric acid (SUA) for diabetic kidney disease (DKD) progression and major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) in a cohort of T2DM patients, (ii) to ascertain eventual protective effect of allopurinol treatment, (iii) to determine the effect of genetic variability in UA transporters on DKD progression, and (iv) to define optimal cut-off values for SUA in patients with DKD.

Methods: Study comprised 422 subjects with diabetes duration at least 15years followed-up for a median of 43 [IQR 22-77] months. Participants were categorized into stable or progressors according to their change in albuminuria or chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage.

Resting Heart Rate Does Not Predict Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

Elevated resting heart rate (RHR) has been associated with increased risk of mortality and cardiovascular events. Limited data are available so far in type 2 diabetic (T2DM) subjects with no study focusing on progressive renal decline specifically. Aims of our study were to verify RHR as a simple and reliable predictor of adverse disease outcomes in T2DM patients.

[Diabetic neuropathy].

The paper deals with one of microvascular complications of diabetes - diabetic polyneuropathy. It is discussed comprehensively from its causes, incidence, its classification and diagnostic possibilities to the risks it entails for patients and therapeutic possibilities.Key words: autonomic neuropathy - diabetes mellitus - diabetic neuropathy - motor neuropathy - sensitive neuropathy - diabetic foot syndrome.

[Treatment of GLP1 receptor agonists and body mass control].

The prevalence of obesity continues to be increasing in all age groups in most countries of the European Union (EU). Many obese people have a history of several successful weight losses, but very few are able to maintain the weight loss over a longer period of time. Initiation of the GLP1 RA administration during weight loss maintenance would inhibit weight loss-induced increases in soluble leptin receptor plasma concentrations resulting in higher level of free leptin thereby preventing weight regain.

[Hypoglycemia as a limitation to the treatment of diabetes mellitus].

In his paper, the author deals with hypoglycemia-related problems as the most frequent complication of the therapy for diabetes mellitus (DM). He points to threats that patients with hypoglycemia are exposed to, but also gives attention to risk groups of patients with regard to hypoglycemia development as well as different levels of the risk related to different antidiabetics.Key words: antidiabetics - diabetes mellitus - hypoglycemia.

Genetic variability in enzymes of metabolic pathways conferring protection against non-enzymatic glycation versus diabetes-related morbidity and mortality.

Background: We hypothesized that genetic variability in genes encoding enzymes metabolizing glycolytic intermediates produced in excess under hyperglycemic conditions [i.e., transketolase (TKT), transaldolase, TKT-like protein 1, fructosamine 3-kinase (FN3K), glyoxalase 1 and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase] could influence progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN) and diabetes-related morbidity and mortality.

ADMA, SDMA and L-arginine/ADMA ratio but not DDAH genetic polymorphisms are reliable predictors of diabetic nephropathy progression as identified by competing risk analysis.

Background/aims: Complex interplay of genetic and (patho)physiological factors influence availability of nitric oxide during the development and progression of diabetic complications. We assessed predictive value of commonly studied methylated asymmetric and symmetric dimethylarginines (ADMA and SDMA) and selected single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH) 1 and 2 genes for the progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN).

Methods: A total of 341 type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients with variable degree of kidney disease were included at baseline.

Role of thiamine status and genetic variability in transketolase and other pentose phosphate cycle enzymes in the progression of diabetic nephropathy.

Background: Pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) represents a potentially 'protective' mechanism in hyperglycaemia due to shunting of glycolytic intermediates into PPP reactions. We hypothesized that thiamine status (plasma and erythrocyte levels of thiamine and its esters) together with genetic variability in key PPP enzymes-transketolase (TKT), transaldolase and TKT-like-might contribute to the progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN) and mortality of diabetics.

Methods: A total of 240 diabetic subjects with variable degree of kidney disease were included at baseline and were followed up for a median of 26 (IQR 21-50) months.

Soluble RAGE, diabetic nephropathy and genetic variability in the AGER gene.

Diabetes mellitus, especially when complicated with decline of renal function due to diabetic nephropathy (DN), is associated with accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) exerting their adverse effects via receptor of AGE (RAGE). Soluble RAGE (sRAGE) is a truncated form of RAGE functioning as an inhibitor of AGE-mediated signalling. We studied relationships between sRAGE, renal function and genetic variability in the AGER gene in diabetic subjects.

Oral sulodexide reduces albuminuria in microalbuminuric and macroalbuminuric type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients: the Di.N.A.S. randomized trial.

Diabetic nephropathy may be effectively prevented and treated by controlling glycemia and administering angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. However, strict metabolic control can be difficult, and ACE inhibitors may be poorly tolerated and only partially effective, particularly in diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2), warranting the search for ancillary treatment. Sulodexide is a glycosaminoglycan, a new class of drug that has demonstrated nephroprotective activity in experimental investigations.