fasting blood glucose

First Trimester Fasting Blood Glucose as a Screening Tool for Diabetes Mellitus in a Teaching Hospital Setting in Nigeria

M. Abbey & T. Kasso · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2018

Aim: The study sought to ascertain the performance of first trimester fasting blood glucose as a screening tool for diabetes mellitus (gestational or pre-gestational), to justify its introduction as one of the booking blood tests in the first trimester and to determine the associ...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/AJMAH/2018/39385

No Association between Helicobacter Pylori Infection and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; A Case-control Study in the North-Western Part of Ghana

Patrick Adu, Isaac Dogfobaare, Prosper Kuuzie, Kwame Osei Darkwah, Benjamin Twum & Richard K. D. Ephraim · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2017

Background: Patients with diabetes mellitus are prone to infections as a result of impaired immune status as a consequence of hyperglycemia. Previous studies addressing the relationship between Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and diabetes mellitus have yielded conflicti...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/AJMAH/2017/31952