BACKGROUND The link between psychological stresses and deteriorating diabetes control is well known. However, people who develop type 1 diabetes sometimes ascribe the onset of diabetes to a recent stressful event. AIMS To perform a systematic review of the literature to assess whether stressful life events can cause type 1 diabetes. METHOD Electronic and manual literature search using appro...

Introduction. Type 2 diabetes is increasing in all populations and all age groups across the world. Areas undergoing rapid westernisation and rapid nutrition transition are seeing the greatest increases in prevalence suggesting that environmental factors are important. Studies from around the world have shown that dietary modification for the prevention of T2DM can be successful; however which ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) on quality of life (QOL) among individuals with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In a multicenter trial, 451 children and adults with type 1 diabetes were randomly assigned to CGM treatment or the control group. Generic and diabetes-specific QOL questionnaires were completed at baseline and 26 weeks by all par...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to study the recurrence risk of type 1 diabetes in the offspring of parents with adult-onset (15-39 years) type 1 diabetes and to evaluate the transmission of diabetes within a continuum of parental age at onset of diabetes from childhood to adulthood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Diabetes status of all offspring (n = 9,636) in two Finnish cohorts of parents with type 1 d...

Patients affected by diabetes show an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality that reduces their life expectancy by 5–15 years (depending on the age at diagnosis). An 18-year follow-up study from Finland demonstrated a similar impact of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on cardiovascular mortality, with an increased risk of 5.2 and4.9 times for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, respecti...

Siniscalchi’s Sign*.......................................................................................................................1 Bedside Recognizing, in one Second, Diabetic Constitution, its Inherited Real Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. .....................................................................................................................

HLA class II genes are strongly associated with susceptibility and resistance to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The present study reports the HLA-DRB1 genotyping of 41 IDDM patients and 99 healthy subjects from the Southeast of Brazil (Campinas region). Both groups consisted of an ethnic mixture of Caucasian, African Negro and Amerindian origin. HLA-DRB1*03 and *04 alleles were fou...

Hypoglycemia is well-recognized to limit the degree of glycemic control possible for many individuals for diabetes. Although the likelihood of hypoglycemia increases as A1c levels decrease in type 1 diabetes, insulin-treated type 2 diabetic persons with higher A1c appear paradoxically to have more hypoglycemia which may explain, in part, the adverse outcome reported in the ACCORD study. Approac...

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