Diabetic lung
Background: Diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of illness and death across the world and is responsible for a growing proportion of global health care expenditures. In spite of effective interventions centered towards the complication of diabetes mellitus including coronary artery disease, diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy and neuropathy. However, diabetic lung have been poorly characterized. Therefore, the aim of this review is to gather and highlight the different studies concerning with diabetes mellitus and its potential effects with lung diseases. Methods: We reviewed English-language MEDLINE publications from 1966 to July 2007 for experimental, observational and clinical studies having relation to diabetes mellitus with lung diseases. Approximately 72 publications were reviewed based on the relevance, strength and quality of design and methods, 47 publications were selected for inclusion. Results: Diabetes mellitus can cause impaired lung function, decreased respiratory muscles endurance, develop diaphragmatic paralysis, dsyponea, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary infection and pulmonary tuberculosis. Conclusion: Diabetes mellitus plays a significant role in patho-physiological process involved in lung diseases and lung is the target organ in diabetes mellitus. Moreover, physicians should know the size of problem of pulmonary complications and must consider the lung as serious as other complications of diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes mellitus Lungs Respiratory Diseases Pulmonary Function Test
Sultan Ayoub Meo MBBS
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
国际会议
上海
英文
139-145
2007-11-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）