AIMS/INTRODUCTION To estimate the prevalence and clinical profile of diabetes mellitus in productive aged urban Indonesians based on the National Basic Health Research 2007. MATERIALS AND METHODS The statistical analyses of a cross-sectional survey included the data of 15,332 adults, aged 18-55 years, living in an urban area. Blood glucose was measured by an automatic clinical chemistry analy...

BACKGROUND Asymptomatic subjects with diabetes mellitus have an impaired cardiac energetics status that may play a significant role in the development of heart failure. In the present study, we assessed the role of microvascular dysfunction in the development of impaired cardiac energetics in subjects with type 1 diabetes mellitus. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-five asymptomatic subjects with ty...

To determine the association between some demographic features ( age, sex, level of education) and the rate of diabetes mellitus control, we performed a cross sectional study in 1065 patients who were under the care of Kerman diabetes center in 1992. We evaluated the data of 525 patients who had more than four visits annually. Sixty nine per cent of them were female and 31℅ male. The mean age f...

To determine the relation between birth weight and age of presentation of type 1 diabetes and assess its risk factors, a case-control study was done on all diabetic patients under the age of 15, who were registered in Shiraz Diabetic Center or admitted in Namazi Hospital. A case group of 87 diabetic patients were matched with a control group of 100 healthy individuals. Birth weight ≥ 4kg was de...

Glucocorticoid-induced hyperglycemia is common in patients with or without known diabetes mellitus. Exenatide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, improves glycemic control without causing weight gain or hypoglycemia and is currently widely used in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. We herein report four cases of patients with type 2 diabetes with worsened glycemic control due to g...

How to cite this article: Hailu E, Mariam WH, Belachew T, Birhanu Z. Selfcare practice and glycaemic control amongst adults with diabetes at the Jimma University Specialized Hospital in south-west Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #311, 6 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/phcfm.v4i1.311 Background: The main goal in diabetes care is to improve the ...

Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor in many diseases, including various kinds of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Many studies have also reported the unfavorable effects of smoking for diabetes mellitus. Smoking increases the risk of developing diabetes, and aggravates the micro- and macro-vascular complications of diabetes mellitus. Smoking is associated with insulin resistance, in...

We evaluated association of polymorphisms in the CTLA-4 gene with the risk of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Comprehensive meta-analysis was applied to case-control studies of the association between CTLA-4 and type 1 diabetes mellitus to assess the joint evidence for the association, the influence of individual studies, and evidence for publication bias. We searched PubMed, Medline, Embase, Cochran...

background: despite the effectiveness of drug therapy in diabetes management high rates of poor adherence persist. the purpose of this study was to determine the factors influencing the medication adherence and dietary regiment in type2 diabetic patients. methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 300 type2 diabetic patients referred to general internal medicine clinic, yazd shohdaye ...

INTRODUCTION Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis and consequently lower limb ischaemia. This study aimed at screening hospitalised diabetic patients for lower limb ischaemia by measuring their ankle brachial pressure index (ABI). METHODS ABI was measured, utilising handheld Doppler ultrasound, for 100 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who were admitted to the su...