Browsing by Subject "Diabetes"
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(2020-07-10)Background: Air pollution is a leading contributor to the burden of disease globally. Recent systematic reviews suggested that air pollution may cause diabetes mellitus among adults. However, the number of studies included ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Diabetic rats exhibit decrease in plasma arginine, NO synthesis and tetrahydrobiopterin in endothelial cells (EC). Treatment with L-arginine may be beneficial for enhancing NO synthesis in diseases associated with endothelial ...
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(2013-07-23)Self-care is the key to living a long and healthy life for people with diabetes. Yet numerous studies show that self-care is far from optimal. This has resulted in attempts to understand the progress underlying self-care ...
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(2019-07-12)Introduction: Diabetes is a pressing health issue both globally and in the US. Diabetes requires individual and social efforts for its successful management. This dissertation investigates how individuals’ physical activity ...
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(2013-03-13)The physiological and biochemical processes of the body are regulated by the circadian oscillators, the endogenous biological timing systems. The molecular mechanism of the circadian clock is composed by a specific set ...
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(2018-05-04)Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are popular fluorescent probes for biological systems because of their immunity to autofluorescence background, photostability, and low toxicity. Nanodiamonds are also of interest for ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The goals of this study were to evaluate the relationships among family functioning, psychological adjustment, and health-related quality of life in children with asthma and children with diabetes. A secondary goal of this ...
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Introduction: In the United States, 9.4% of Americans have been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. African Americans residing in Texas have the highest prevalence rate for type-2 diabetes (16.6%). Despite the tremendous strides ...
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(2017-06-19)African Americans are disproportionately represented in the United States’ Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) statistics. This disparity has long been investigated, but no marked improvement has been made. This study examines ...