Group teachingIt has been suggested that much effort expended in teaching diabetic diets is ineffective and wasteful. We have tested a different system by randomly allocating 75 newly diagnosed obese Type 2 diabetic patients to usual 'unstructured' clinic care or to group education by diabetes ...
Another dividend of large studies in patients with type 2 diabetes has been that many of our current glucose-lowering agents possess valuable pleiotropic actions. For example, the PROactive Study showed that pioglitazone improves triglycerides, albuminuria, markers of inflammation, and fatty liver and r...
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases and leads to a considerable rate of death and social burden worldwide1. Patients with T2D with poor glycemic control require insulin therapy in the course of disease progression. Although good glycemic control can markedly reduce...
Hence, this study aimed to assess the depression and anxiety among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Chitwan. Descriptive survey was carried out among 296 purposively selected clinically diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients admitted in the Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital from 15 th ...
This hospital serves as a referral hospital, a teaching hospital, and research center, and the hospital has one diabetic clinic. There were about 2420 diabetic patients who have been following the diabetic clinic annually. The study population and methods shares similarity with a previously published...
Knowing that patients with type 2 diabetes who receive the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor canagliflozin (Invokana) as part of a glucose-lowering strategy excrete a fixed amount of glucose in the urine (which causes weight loss), they used a mathematical model to calculate ener...
The study was cross-sectional. Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, attending outpatient services of the department of endocrinology of a medical college in Bangalore, India. 1. Cost was a barrier to medication use. Dose omissions were frequent among participants from lower socioeconomic background...
The type of diabetes associated with HIV may be classified as type 2 diabetes (T2DM), rather than T1DM, in the vast majority of patients.. Concurrent use of opiates, however, may alter beta cell function[12], while heroin addiction is associated with insulin resistance. No specific mechanisms...
patients experienced acute symptoms. They believed the CHWs would welcome such a program, which the CHWs themselves confirmed. We met with leaders of the national diabetes control and advocacy groups, who were very supportive of the proposed adaptation. They recommended incorporating diabetes peer ...