Patients diagnosed with T2D (ICD-10 code E11) for no more than six months at baseline met the inclusion criteria. We excluded those: (1) who had a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes or other types of diabetes (ICD-10 codes E10 or E13) in any record present in the database; (2) were ...
In addition to age, sex and calendar time, this included use of non-insulin glucose-lowering drugs (ATC code A10B), statins (C10A), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs; M01A) and hormone replacement treatment (HRT; G03), defined as at least one prescription within 1 year before ...
Lean body mass (L15M) Body composition, plasma insulin, and growth hormone levels 607 and total body fat (TBF) were determined by the use of the Pace constant (0.72) [1, 10]. Thus LBM and TBF may be determined from the following equation: TW LBM = O72 It follows that: TBF = ...
The positive predictive value of ICD-9 code 428 as a primary diagnosis has been reported to be 94.3% using the Framingham criteria and 88.6% using criteria previously validated with pulmonary capillary wedge pressure [62]. Since heart failure is a complex and progressive syndrome whose recognition...
One half microliter of patients (International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision; ICD DNA was added to a PCR buffer containing 200 ng of primers, code 162) were recruited from Changhwa Christian Hospital 1.5 mM MgCl , 0.2 mM of dNTPs, 50 mM KCl, 10 mM Tris- 2 (Changhwa County,...
The aim of this population-based study was to assess the impact of insulin treatment on cancer incidence in subjects with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in Italy. We found that insulin use was associated with a 20% excess for all sites cancer incidence among people with type 2 diabetes, while...
2.2. Animal and Experimental Protocol All protocols in this study were approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Harbin Medical University (Harbin, China) and were performed in accordance with the National Institutes of Health regulations for the care and use of animals in research. The approval...
All procedures for handling mice were carried out in accordance with the Principles of Laboratory Animal Care (NIH publication No. 85–23, revised 1985) and the Animal Care and Use Guidelines (KHSASP-20-163) of Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. 2.12. Statistical Analysis The data values ...