title: [Mycological examination and the taste disorder test for the tongues of diabetes mellitus patients].
abstract: The mycological examination by the cotton swab method and the taste disorder test using the filter-paper method were taken for the tongues of diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. Candida albicans was isolated from 29 out of 81 patients. The mean serum HbA1c level of patients with C. albicans was significantly higher than that of patients without it. DM patients demonstrated significantly higher incidences of taste disorders than healthy controls, but there was no relationship between C. albicans of the tongue and taste disorders. The taste disorders tended to occur in the DM patients who had nerve complications. The results suggested the taste disorder test using the filter-paper methods contributes to easy detection of the nerve complications in DM patients.
authors.affiliation: Division of Dermatology, Saiseikai Kawaguchi General Hospital.
authors.forename: Takuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katoh
mesh_terms: D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013649:Taste; D013651:Taste Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014059:Tongue / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin; C517652:hemoglobin A1c protein, human