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Introduction: The etiopathogenesis of diabetes mellitus ismulti-factorial & complex and appears to involve interactionsof various immunological, genetic and environmental factors1.The Diabetes mellitus is associated with increased bloodglucose level. It represent one of the major chronic healthproblem faced by the society today2. The aim of this study isto evaluate a quick, safe, noninvasive and painless method toscreen for diabetes during regular clinical examination usingself-monitoring glucometer.Material and Methods: 35 cases who were reported toPrimary health centre, sahdei buzurg for hematologicalexamination were selected for the study. Probing of gingivalsulcus was done using William’s WHO probe. Blood oozingfrom the sulcus was collected on the strip provided by theglucometer and blood glucose level was recorded. For control,finger prick capillary blood was collected and blood glucoselevel was analyzed. Statistical analysis was done usingPearson’s Correlation Coefficient.Result: The result revealed strong correlation betweengingival crevicular blood and peripheral capillary measuredblood glucose level.Conclusion: Gingival crevicular blood collected duringclinical examination may be an excellent painless source ofblood for glucometric analysis.
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Introduction: The etiopathogenesis of diabetes mellitus ismulti-factorial & complex and appears to involve interactionsof various immunological, genetic and environmental factors.Positive association with blood groups shows increasedsusceptibility and a negative association shows protectionagainst diabetes mellitus. Present study was conducted to findout a possible association between type II diabetes mellitus(DM) and ABO & Rh blood groups.Material and Methods: The study involved 313 patients whoreported to Haematology Laboratory for blood investigationsover a period of 5 months. On the basis of Random & FastingBlood Sugar levels, we made Group I (Diabetic patients) &Group II (Healthy controls). ABO & Rh blood grouping donefor both the groups.Results: AB & B blood group showed less commonassociation with diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus (DM)were more associated with Blood group A, as compared tocontrols. Blood group O has same distribution among bothgroups. Diabetics has higher percentage than controls hadRh positive blood group (96.55% vs 94.69%), and diabeticsshowed less percentage of Rh negative blood group (3.44%vs 5.3%). Blood group B, AB and O were positive in higherpercentage among diabetics, and it was same in blood group A.Conclusion: According to Results, it has association betweenDM and Rh positive blood groups and between blood groupsB & AB it has negative association.