Study of plasma Amylin concentration in patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

Twenty insulin dependent diabetes mellitus patients and twenty healthy control subjects were included in this study. Fasting plasma amylin level was done. The mean of amylin level in patients was [1.61 +/- 1.2] ng/ml and the mean of amylin level in controls was [6.21 +/- 2.0 ng/ml]. The amylin level was significantly lower in patient with type I diabetes than control [P< 0.001].The decrease of amylin level in IDDM patients together with its apparent insulin antagonistic action raised the speculations about its possible role in the counter regulation of hypoglycemia in this disease

Job satisfaction among nurse's educators at the university level [comparative study]

This study was done to compare nurse educators at both Alexandria and Cairo Higher Institute of Nursing, as regards their perception of the importance of given job characteristics to job satisfaction, the extent of their satisfaction and the predictors of their job satisfaction. A two parts questionnaire was used to collect the data. The first part collects demographic data, while the second part respondent rated the importance of job- characteristics to job satisfaction and indicated her satisfaction with each. Analysis of the data revealed, that the nurse educators at both institutes showed low degree of satisfaction. Educators ranked extrinsic factors in the importance index as more important than intrinsic factors. There was negative correlation between importance and satisfaction with some items. For Alexandria educators the intrinsic factors are the best predictor for job satisfaction, while age, years of experience, work group and self-actualization were best predictors for Cairo educators job satisfaction