Abstract:
Diabetes is a fast-growing health problem in Egypt with a considerable effect on
health care resources, mortality, and morbidity. Diabetes is acknowledged by a
disease in which the ability of the body to produce or respond to the hormone insulin
is impaired, leading to abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated levels of
glucose in the blood. The study will be done by testing blood of 12 individuals by
collecting blood samples from them and test natural killer cells in the diabetic patients
and healthy people. The aim of this study is determining the relation between natural
killer cells and diabetes and its role in control group, diabetic patients and
complicated diabetic patients and its relation to infection. Lastly, results shown that
natural killer cells are less in diabetic patients than normal people. This decrease in
the natural killer cells makes diabetic patients susceptible to infections more than
normal ones.