Targeting people with pre-diabetes

Targeting blood pressure in people with diabetes mellitus.

Hypertension is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular (CV)-related morbidity and mortality, and its treatment has been shown to be beneficial. Hypertension is common in people with diabetes mellitus, and the combination of these conditions markedly increases CV risk in comparison with individuals with neither condition. Although there is increasing clarity as to blood pressure (BP) targets in...

Poor Lower Extremity Function Was Associated with Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes in Older Chinese People

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a relationship exists between performance-based physical assessments and pre-diabetes/diabetes in an older Chinese population. METHODS Our study population comprised 976 subjects (mean ± SD age: 67.6±6.0 years; 44.5% men) from the Hangu area of Tianjin, China. Diabetes was defined by self-reporting of a physician's diagnosis, or a fasting plasma glucose level ≥1...

Many South Asian people probably need pre-diabetes care.

Travel Guidance for People with Diabetes; A Narrative Review

Diabetes is a disease which occurs by lack of insulin production or its inappropriate function.  Patients with diabetes who take insulin suffer from high blood sugar and face unique challenges while travelling as their schedules for insulin dosage and blood sugar regulation change. Therefore they need to organize carefully how they have to travel, instruments they should take, the actions...

Comparing mental health of people with type I diabetes mellitus and non-diabetic people

  Purpose: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which widely affects individual health and   social performance. The purpose of this study was to compare the mental health of patients   with type I diabetes and non-diabetic individuals.   Materials and Methods: This was a comparative after-the-fact study conducted in 2011. The   participants included 50 patients with type I diabetes who were ...