1.1 Obesity and type 2 diabetes prevalence are increasing among women of childbearing age There has been a significant increase over the past few decades in the the prevalence of women of child-bearing age who are overweight (body mass index, BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) or obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). Women of childbearing age are at an increased risk for obesity (Villamor & Cnattingius, 2006) and type 2 diabet...

• Life-threatening acute metabolic complications of diabetes. • Newly diagnosed diabetes in children and adolescents. • Substantial and chronic poor metabolic control that necessitates close monitoring of the patient to determine the etiology of the control problem, with subsequent modification of therapy. • Severe chronic complications of diabetes that require intensive treatment or other seve...

Pancreatogenic diabetes is an underdiagnosed form of secondary diabetes that is lacking official management guidelines. This paper reviews the recommended management strategies with additional data on the promising novel drugs.

Development of evidence-based clinical guidelines to raising standards of medical care in diabetes is a core element of coping with the global diabetes epidemic. The purpose of this study was to develop a systematic clinical diabetes guideline from the latest scientific evidences and also to localize its recommendations according to regional and cultural needs of our society. Searches were cond...

Background: Type I diabetes is a chronic disease that places great demands on the child and family. Parental involvement has been found to be essential for disease outcome. However, fathers’ involvement has been less studied, even though high paternal involvement has been correlated with less disease impact on the family and higher quality of life among adolescents. Aim: The overall aim of the ...

background: the quality of care from the perspective of people with type 2 diabetes using a new model (cqmh) including three dimensions of quality in health care (technical, service and customer quality) was assessed. methods: a cross-sectional survey with a sample of 577 people with type 2 diabetes was conducted. measures were self-reported adherence to national guidelines for technical qualit...