Diagnosing Diabetes With Glucose Criteria: Worshipping a False God

Diagnosing Diabetes With Glucose Criteria: Worshipping a False God

In this issue of Diabetes Care, Dr. David Sacks has nicely delineated the pros and cons of the measurements of glucose concentrations and A1C levels and the resulting effects on using each to diagnose diabetes (1). With the continued improvement in A1C assays, the balance seems to increasingly favor using A1C levels. This commentary will examine an issue that has received scant attention in the...

Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu

Margaret McCartney: The false god of appraisal.

Twenty three minutes on a train. Until a couple of years ago I used the time spent on this regular journey thinking about things I’d like to write about, or the best birthday presents for friends, the colour of the trees rushing by, the enticing smell of other people’s fish and chips. That time was mine. It was aimless but gloriously, fruitfully productive. This has stopped. Appraisal now means...

Prevalence of diabetes, impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance in patients with thalassemia major in Iran: A meta-analysis

Background: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of diabetes, impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in Iranian patients with thalassemia major. Methods: The current study has been conducted based on PRISMA guideline. To obtain the documents, Persian and English scientific databases such as Magiran, Iranmedex, SID, Medlib, IranDoc, Scopus, PubMed, Scien...

A Rule Extractor for Diagnosing the Type 2 Diabetes Using a Self-organizing Genetic Algorithm

Introduction: Constructing medical decision support models to automatically extract knowledge from data helps physicians in early diagnosis of disease. Interpretability of the inferential rules of these models is a key indicator in determining their performance in order to understand how they make decisions, and increase the reliability of their output. Methods: In this study, an automated hyb...