OBJECTIVE—To determine the relationship between mean sensor glucose concentrations and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) values measured in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/ Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications laboratory at the University of Minnesota in a cohort of subjects with type 1 diabetes from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation continuous glucose monitoring r...

INTRODUCTION Diabetes Mellitus is a public health problem that is on the increase throughout the world, including in Portugal. This paper aims to identify the changing geographic pattern of this cause of death in Portugal and its association with sociomaterial deprivation. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a transversal ecological study of the deaths by Diabetes Mellitus in Portuguese municipaliti...

background: diabetes mellitus is one of the most important diseases in all over the world. insulin and its receptor are found in specific area of cns with a variety of regions-specific functions different from its role in direct glucose regulation in the periphery. the hippocampus and cerebral cortex distributed insulin and insulin receptor has been shown to be involved in brain cognitive funct...

Introduction In the past type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is the commonest type of diabetes affecting children in Malaysia. Nevertheless, diagnosis of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is increasingly being made due to the rising prevalence rate of obesity amongst children. This contributes to the difficulty in making the right diagnosis at initial presentation if the clinical features that distinguish the two ...

This study focused on three questions: Is there a difference in men's and women's diabetes attitudes? Do health professionals give different recommendations to men and women? Is there a difference between men and women in care adherence? A total of 1201 patients with diabetes were surveyed; 65% of these patients were women. Differences in diabetes attitudes (three of seven attitudes) were most ...

Having a child with type 1 diabetes (T1D) has an impact on the family’s dynamics, but less is known about the specific influence the child’s gender exerts. The parents attending a routine diabetic review clinic were asked to complete the Family Adaptation and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES-IV), and associated measures of family communication and satisfaction with family life. 53 mothers and 1...

OBJECTIVE The incidence of Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in Greek-Cypriot children aged less than 15 years between 1990 and 2009 was examined along with gender differences concerning the age of onset and the seasonal variation at manifestation of the disease. DESIGN All newly diagnosed cases of T1DM in children less than 15 years old were registered with the capture-recapture method from 19...

OBJECTIVE To investigate incidence trends of all diabetes types in all children and young people and in the south Asian subpopulation. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Annual incidence per 100,000 and time trends (1991-2006) were analyzed for 2,889 individuals aged 0-29 years diagnosed with diabetes while resident in West Yorkshire, U.K. RESULTS Diagnoses comprised type 1 (83%), type 2 (12%), ma...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine age of diabetes diagnosis in youth who have a parent with diabetes by diabetes type and whether the parent's diabetes was diagnosed before or after the youth's birth. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The cohort comprised SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study participants (diabetes diagnosis 2001-2005) with a diabetic parent. SEARCH is a multicenter s...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the excess in admissions associated with type1 diabetes in childhood. DESIGN Matched-cohort study using anonymously linked hospital admission data. SETTING Brecon Group Register of new cases of childhood diabetes in Wales linked to hospital admissions data within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Databank. POPULATION 1577 Welsh children (aged between 0 and 1...