Patients and methods
The present study included 45 diabetic male patients, on oral
hypoglycemic drugs. The diagnosis of diabetes was determined
according to WHO criteria as follows, fasting blood sugar
P126 mg/dl and 2 h post load glucose test P200 mg/dl [10].
They were recruited from the internal medicine department,
Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine; new Damietta; during the period
from January 2014 through May 2014. Another 45 healthy
male subjects, matched for age were included in the study as a
control group.