Feasibility and Efficiency of a Novel Bolus Calculator (IF-DIABETE) for Patients With Type 1 Diabetes: A Nonrandomized Single-Arm Pilot Study.

Background The IF-DIABETE system is an insulin bolus dose support, considered as the first bolus calculator dedicated to people with type 1 diabetes, designed in the Arabic language, and adapted to the large Arabic food culture. Our aims were to assess the proof of concept and efficiency of the IF-DIABETE system in improving clinical and metabolic outcomes in individuals with type 1 diabetes. Methods This is a prospective nonrandomized single-arm pilot study.

Structural characterization, antioxidant, and antibiofilm activities of green seeds.

Objectives: In order to explore green seeds as natural extract for application in the functional-food industry, we focused this study to the evaluation of the antioxidant and the antiadhesion effect of green seeds extracts.

Methods: The analysis of green seeds extracts was carried out by RP-HPLC-PDA. These extracts were screened for antioxidant activities by ABTS and phenanthroline assays.

Lipid profile in type 2 patients with diabetes from Tlemcen: A Western Algerian population.

In Algeria, diabetes mellitus is a public health problem and it is strongly associated with lower levels of physical activity, increasing obesity rates, an ageing population, unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits. In this study, we performed a transversal investigation on 100 patients with diabetes type 2 and 10 controls with no clinical history of diabetes. A questionnaire was developed with the anthropometric data and biochemical following values: fasting blood glucose (GLU), total cholesterol (TCHOL), triglycerides (TRG), high-density lipoproteins (HDL-C) and glycosylated hemoglobin (GHbA1c) and calculated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C).

Anti-thyroglobulin antibodies in differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients: Study of the clinical and biological parameters.

Objectives: Detection of thyroglobulin in serum is of major clinical importance. The current assay techniques do not have all the qualifications which make the results of thyroglobulin difficult to interpret. The major problem is the autoantibody thyroglobulin (TgAb) interference.