Neighborhood Social Environment and Patterns of Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Adherence to Hypoglycemic Medication among Insulin-Treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Patterns of Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents and Glucose Control among Primary Care Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Researchers sought to examine whether there are patterns of oral hypoglycemic-agent adherence among primary-care patients with type 2 diabetes that are related to patient characteristics and clinical outcomes. Longitudinal analysis via growth curve mixture modeling was carried out to classify 180 patients who participated in an adherence intervention according to patterns of adherence to oral h...

Combination therapy of oral hypoglycemic agents in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

The Korean Diabetes Association (KDA) recently updated the Clinical Practice Guidelines on antihyperglycemic agent therapy for adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In combination therapy of oral hypoglycemic agents (OHAs), general recommendations were not changed from those of the 2015 KDA guidelines. The Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines of the KDA has extensively revie...

Prevalence of Anti Hyperglycemic Agents -Associated Oral Lichenoid Lesions in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Objective: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of lichenoid reactions to Anti Hyperglycemic Agents. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive and analytic study, we examined the oral mucosa of 411 patients at the age of 29 to 85 in 3 groups who consumed various antihyperglycemic agents. Results: In overall, 31 patients had lichenoid reactions (12 patients taking glibe...

Adherence to Treatment Based on Social Support and Coping Strategies in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Background: According to the growing prevalence of type 2 diabetes, the present study aimed to predict adherence to treatment based on social support variables and coping strategies to reduce the severity of this disease. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, 392 men and women with type 2 diabetes were evaluated using purposeful and convenient sampling. Wax social support and t...