Prevalence of Asymptomatic Renal Stones in Diabetic Population in Tertiary Care Hospital

roduction: Renal stone is one of the mostly found kidneydisease. It is estimated that 1% to 15% of people are having alifetime risk of having a kidney stone. It has been reported thathighest prevalence is seen in northern Thailand, Turkey andGreece (16.9%, 14.8% and 15.2% respectively. As the diseasemostly affects the productive age group i.e, 20-60 years ofpeople, there is a great indirect economic burden of thisdisease in the form of loss of working days.Methodology: Two groups were included in this study, one isdiabetic & another one is non-diabetic. This study wasconducted in the Department Of Medicine, C. U. Shah MedicalCollege, Gujarat, India. The duration of study was over aperiod of one year.Results: Higher prevalence of asymptomatic renal stones indiabetic population (8.90%) was seen as compare to nondiabetic group (2.30%).Conclusion: The findings of this study revealed that higherprevalence of asymptomatic renal stone disease exists indiabetic population. Though long term follow up ofasymptomatic renal stone disease is not available yet we havegiven existing evidence that they are not innocuous.

Level and influential factors of serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in new-onset diabetic population / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

The level of serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) in the population with new-onset diabetes was detected and its influential factors were analyzed.The concentrations of hsCRP increased with age in the population with new-onset diabetes( Ptrend＜0.01 ).The percentage of subjects with hsCRP levels ＞3 mg/L was 18.8％in men and 26.7％ in women.A logistic regression analysis indicated that age,gender,body mass index,waist circumference,fasting plasma glucose,and triglyceride were the influential factors of hsCRP levels in diabetic population( P＜0.05 or P＜0.01 ).A variety of cardiovascular factors affected hsCRP level and a strong association existed between hsCRP and abdominal obesity.

Cross-sectional study of prevalence and risk factors of hypertension in Thai diabetic population.

Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are risk factors of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Greater morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases was found in hypertensive patient with diabetes mellitus than without diabetes mellitus. The prevalence of hypertension in diabetes mellitus patients was about 10-68% in general. To know the prevalence of hypertension in Thai diabetic patients and risk factors related, a cross-sectional study was done in 408 diabetic patients at the Diabetic Clinic, Siriraj Hospital, between June to September 1986.The prevalence was 29.4% and the risk factors which related significantly, especially in female subjects, were ogre and duration of diabetes. Body mass index, sex and proteinuria were not related to hypertension in diabetes mellitus significantly in this study.