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Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease secondary to the destruction of the insulin-producing β cells of the islets of the pancreas. Environmental factors presumably trigger the disease in genetically susceptible individuals, leading to a lifetime dependency on exogenous insulin.1 The risk of T1DM in the general population is 0.4% but increases to 1–9% […]

World Health Organization statistics rank tuberculosis (TB) amongst the top 10 communicable diseases in the world, and it remains one of the biggest killers of mankind.1 TB is known to cause both mortality and morbidity. Pulmonary TB is the primary manifestation, but genital TB is also found in a considerable number of men and women. There […]

Type 1 diabetes has become one of the most studied polygenic disorders. It effects over 1.4 million people in the US, with a rising incidence in many western nations.1,2 It is clear that there is a strong hereditary component in the development of disease, with siblings at higher risk than offspring and both at higher […]

Data from the INTERHEART study, a case-control study involving participants from 52 countries, also indicate that nine traditional factors may account for as much as 90% of population-attributable risk for myocardial infarction in men and 94% in women.1 However, these figures should be interpreted with care and considered as rough estimates of a preventative potential […]

Wound Healing in Diabetes