OBJECTIVE Successful disease management is heavily influenced by access to care issues and patient behavior. Screening tests to detect chronic complications are part of diabetes management and may be influenced by access to care or patient decisions. The objective of this research was to examine how strongly access to care and patient behavior predict screening practices. RESEARCH DESIGN AND ...

INTRODUCTION This study assessed the health screening behaviour of Singaporeans and evaluated factors associated with low uptake of screening tests. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from the 2010 National Health Survey, which was conducted on Singapore citizens and permanent residents, was used in this analysis. Multivariate Cox regression was used to evaluate the relationship between sociodemograp...

Diagnosis of diabetes in youth is increasing in the U.S. (1,2). It is not known how much of this change is due to an increase in diabetes and how much is due to improved case detection, especially for type 2 diabetes. Some researchers have hypothesized that part of the explanation for the increase in diabetes diagnosis in youth is increased screening, resulting in a higher percentage of cases b...

BACKGROUND Unconventional settings, outside general medical practice, are an underutilised resource in the attempt to identify the large numbers of people with undiagnosed diabetes worldwide. AIM The study investigated the feasibility of using optometry practices (opticians) as a setting for a diabetes screening service. DESIGN AND SETTING Adults attending high street optometry practices in...

abstract background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the psychosomatic disorders that stress playing an important role in causing, severity, and long term situation. the present study conducted to determine the association of personality type a and b to type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients’ referring to diabetes center. methods: in the descriptive correlation study, 50 diabetic type 2 patien...

BACKGROUND Obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. Guidelines call for intensified glucose and lipid screening among overweight and obese patients. Data on compliance with these guidelines are scarce. The purpose of this study was to assess rates of diabetes and lipid screening in primary care according to demographic variables and weight status. ME...

OBJECTIVE Screening for diabetes has the potential to be an effective intervention, especially if patients have intensive treatment of their newly diagnosed diabetes and comorbid hypertension. We wished to determine the process and quality of diabetes care for patients diagnosed with diabetes by systematic screening. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 1,253 users of the Durham Veterans Af...

Microalbuminuria is an early sign of progressive cardiovascular and renal disease in individuals with and without diabetes. Despite compelling data, at present only a minority of patients with diabetes and rarely individuals without diabetes are screened for albuminuria in a systematic way. All of the criteria to implement systematic albuminuria screening are fulfilled in diabetes, and most are...

Although the American Diabetes Association and the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommend screening individuals with diabetes risk factors, approximately one third of diabetes cases remain undiagnosed. Because either set of guidelines would be effective in detecting new cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), one explanation for why there are so many cases of undiagnosed cases of...