Hyperglycemia and its complications

ISBN-13: 9783659271786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 60 str.

Jihan Hussein; Mona El-Banna; Yasmin Abdel Latif

Opis

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, Diabetes-specific microvascular disease is a leading cause of blindness, renal failure and nerve damage, and Diabetes-specific macrovascular disease leads to increased risk of atherosclerosis , myocardial infarction, stroke and limb amputation. There are many molecular mechanisms have been implicated in glucose-mediated tissue damage.

O autorze

Prof. Jihan Seid Hussein, Professor of Medical Biochemistry, National Research Centre, Egypt. Member of several international scientific societies, awarded a scientific encouragement prize in Biotechnology of the National Research Centre (NRC) in 2011. Holds a Scientific Excellence Award for the research outputs of the NRC for the years 2009-2016.