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BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care

Correspondence to Joyce-Rachel John; jrjohn@ bmj.com We are pleased to announce the launch of BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care — a new online-only, open access research journal published by BMJ in partnership with the American Diabetes Association. As a pioneer in the open access movement, BMJ understands the need to communicate medical advances to the widest possible audience, and is proud to...

Ramadan Fasting and Diabetes Care

Perspective: a systems approach to diabetes research

We review here the status of human type 2 diabetes studies from a genetic, epidemiological, and clinical (intervention) perspective. Most studies limit analyses to one or a few omic technologies providing data of components of physiological processes. Since all chronic diseases are multifactorial and arise from complex interactions between genetic makeup and environment, type 2 diabetes mellitu...

predictors of self-care behaviors among diabetic patients referred to yazd diabetes research centre based on extended health belief model

introduction: diabetes is the most common disease related to metabolism disorders with long term complications. it needs lifelong specific self-care, as it causes a promotion in quality of life and decreases disease costs. the health belief model (hbm) is a psychological model that attempts to explain and predict health behaviors. this is done by focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of individ...

The American Diabetes Association Diabetes Research Perspective

The burden of diabetes is enormous and escalating at an alarming rate (1–3). Nearly 26 million Americans have the disease, including over 10% of the total adult population and over 25% of the population aged 65 years and older. While most of those individuals have type 2 diabetes, nearly 1million Americans have type 1 diabetes. An additional 79 million American adults have prediabetes, which, w...