OBJECTIVE To determine whether case subjects who were later diagnosed with type 2 diabetes utilized primary care differently from control subjects who remained free from diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a matched cohort study using the U.K. General Practice Research Database. Case subjects were aged 30-89 years, diagnosed with diabetes, and later prescribed oral hypoglycemic...

Disease diagnosis is one of the applications where data mining tools are proving successful results. Diabetes disease is the leading cause of death all over the world in the past years. Several researchers are using statistical data. The availability of huge amounts of medical data leads to the need for powerful mining tools to help health care professionals in the diagnosis of diabetes disease...

AIMS To determine the prevalence of and risk factors for diabetes mellitus and examine its diagnosis and management in the study communities. METHODS This is a population-based cross-sectional study among adults in 24 communities from Zambia and the Western Cape (WC) province of South Africa. Diabetes is defined as a random blood glucose concentration (RBG)⩾11.1mmol/L, or RBG<11.1mmol/L but w...

chorea is brief, quasi-purposeful, irregular muscle contractions, not repetitive or rhythmic, but flows from one muscle to the next and athetosis is slow, writhing, continuous, worm-like movements of distal extremities (chiefly the fingers) which show bizarre positioning without posturing. metabolic causes have been documented earlier, note worthy of that being diabetes. choreoathetosis has bee...

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Diabetes is a global endemic with rapidly increasing prevalence in both developing and developed countries. The American Diabetes Association has recommended glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) as a possible substitute to fasting blood glucose for diagnosis of diabetes. HbA1c is an important indicator of long-term glycemic control with the ability to reflect the cumulative glycemic history of the prece...

&lt;span&gt;In today’s world, Diabetes is one of these diseases and now a big growing health problem. The techniques data mining have been widely applied to extract knowledge from medical databases. In this work, Medical Diagnosis system proposed for the ‎diagnosis diabetes in manner ‎that rapid cost-effective. three stages are ‎involved diagnosis (DDS) including: dataset constructing, preproce...

incidence of diabetes is increasing in developing countries as well as iran. half of the patients are not aware of their disease so screening of diabetes is necessary. lifestyle changes in society, high-saturated fat diet and decreased physical activity are the factors that influence the growing rate of diabetes in iran.1 the need for addressing type 2 diabetes has been clarified for family phy...

Abstract As the third most frequently diagnosed cancer through worldwide, colorectal (CRC) is fourth leading cause and account for around 8% of all cancer-related death. Diabetes mellitus (DM) a complex metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia inflammation due to deficiency in insulin secretion or dysregulation action pathway, which further leads dysfunction failure multiple or...