Diabetes complications often afflict diabetes patients seriously: over 68% of diabetes-related mortality is caused by diabetes complications. In this paper, we study the problem of automatically diagnosing diabetes complications from patients’ lab test results. The objective problem has two main challenges: 1) feature sparseness: a patient only undergoes 1.26% lab tests on average, and 65.5% ty...

D iabetes and urologic diseases are very common health problems that markedly increase in prevalence and incidence with advancing age (1–3). Diabetes is associated with an earlier onset and increased severity of urologic diseases, resulting in costly and debilitating urologic complications. Urologic complications, including bladder dysfunction, sexual and erectile dysfunction, as well as urinar...

OBJECTIVE Youth with type 1 diabetes face long-term risks of health complications of the disease. Little is known about patients' and parents' knowledge, acquisition of information, and family communication regarding these complications. This paper reports qualitative analyses of parental focus-group discussions of this topic. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 47 participants (30 mothers...

Gastrointestinal complications of diabetes include gastroparesis, intestinal enteropathy (which can cause diarrhea, constipation, and fecal incontinence), and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Patients with gastroparesis may present with early satiety, nausea, vomiting, bloating, postprandial fullness, or upper abdominal pain. The diagnosis of diabetic gastroparesis is made when other causes ar...

ies incidence that is higher, lower, or similar to that of nondiabetic children. This contradiction may possibly be explained by cohort characteristics, degree of diabetes control, and degree of adherence to dietary prescriptions. Adult patients with poor control of their IDDM seem to have more coronal caries. In the general population, the frequency of root caries increases with age and is thr...

INTRODUCTION Diabetic nephropathy is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the UK. These patients are at significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease and of progression to end-stage renal disease. We review the epidemiology, pathogenesis and natural history of diabetic nephropathy and evaluate the therapeutic options available. SOURCES OF DATA We searched Medline and Pu...

Aggressive management of hyperglycaemia and other risk factors can prevent many complications IN AUSTRALIA, 7% of the adult population has diabetes, 1 and the number of affected individuals is rising. Complications are the major cause of associated morbidity and mortality. They are classified as macrovascular (affecting large arteries) or microvascular (affecting capillaries and small blood ves...

Observational and clinical trial data show a clear relationship between the degree of hyperglycemia and the risk to develop diabetic retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy and diabetic neuropathy. Intervention trials comparing two different levels of glycemic control demonstrate that for every 1% reduction in HbA 1c , there is approximately a 25-30% reduction in these complications of diabetes. Furt...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease characterized by impaired fasting and post-prandial glucose tolerance, which is associated with insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia among other secondary metabolic changes [1]. Despite the increasing knowledge on this complex disease, its incidence and prevalence rates continue to increase all over the world [2]. This has been attributed ...

Diabetes mellitus and its complications are common; the complications are, of themselves, a major reason to manage diabetes. Recent data from Australia and similar developed health care systems overseas indicate that morbidity and mortality outcomes relating to diabetes complications are improving. However, these benefits are offset by increasing numbers of people diagnosed with diabetes, resul...