International Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome
The 20th century recoded in its history two unprecedented worldwide phenomena: population aging and the transformation of a lethal pandemic by the human immunodeficiency virus into...
The glycemic index (GI) is the ability of a food to vary postprandial blood sugar. Frequent consumption of high GI foods is believed to cause chronic hyperglycemia which worsens th...
Background: The Body Mass Index also called the Quetelet Index is a measure (kg/m²) used as an indicator of the adequacy of weight for a certain height. The resulting value is...
Background: Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (Desai et al., 2018). Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA...