HOMA-IR as a predictor of Health Outcomes in Patients with Metabolic Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Introduction: There exists clinical interest in the following question: Is there an association between HOMA-IR and the risk of developing metabolic diseases?

Aims: Assessing the association between high values of HOMA-IR with the incidence of T2DM, MACE, essential hypertension, dyslipidemia, NASH, and cancer in healthy participants and participants with a component of metabolic syndrome.

Methods: Databases were searched by an experienced librarian to find eligible studies. Observational cohort studies enrolling healthy adults and adults with metabolic syndrome components that evaluated HOMA as a marker of IR were considered for inclusion.

Gestational diabetes mellitus and COVID-19, clinical characteristics and review of the literature.

There is a lack of information about the maternal-fetal outcomes in patients with gestational diabetes and concomitant COVID-19; and there is even less information about the outcomes of pregnant women with gestational diabetes and COVID-19. We present a case of a primigravidae of 20-year-old woman with gestational diabetes and COVID-19 and a review of the literature.

The Heart in Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Narrative Review Focusing on the Acute Cardiac Effects and Electrocardiographic Abnormalities.

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus. Hyperglycemia, acidosis, and electrolyte imbalances can directly affect the heart by inducing toxicity, impairing myocardial blood flow, autonomic dysfunction, and altering activation and conduction of electrical impulses throughout the heart, increasing the risk of arrhythmias and ischemia. The electrocardiogram is useful in monitoring patients during and after an episode of DKA, as it allows the detection of arrhythmias and guides metabolic correction.

Purpureocillium lilacinum as unusual cause of pulmonary infection in immunocompromised hosts.

Purpureocillium lilacinum (P. lilacinum) is an emergent pathogenic mold that presents more commonly as an ocular infection, cutaneous and/or subcutaneous infections in patients that are usually immunocompromised. A pulmonary presentation is rare, the clinical presentation is fever and cough with radiographic presentation as pleural effusion, single-lung consolidation, and cavitary pulmonary disease.