Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic and insidious disease that on the rise worldwide. pharmacotherapy complex varied, recent studies of novel antihyperglycemic drugs have raised important considerations for management T2DM. This review provides an overview diagnosis T2DM, glycemic targets individuals with T2DM diagnosis, outlines general approach to emphasis how select appropriate usin...

OBJECTIVE To examine antidepressant use before and after the diagnosis of diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This study was a longitudinal analysis of diabetic and nondiabetic groups selected from a prospective cohort study of 151,618 men and women in Finland (the Finnish Public Sector Study, 1995-2005). We analyzed the use of antidepressants in those 493 individuals who developed type 2 d...

The diagnosis of diabetes subtypes in a busy clinic is usually based on the age at onset, phenotype and biochemical diagnostic criteria. Not surprisingly, the focus is predominantly on diagnosing type 1 and type 2 diabetes. More challenging for the physician is to think of monogenic diabetes, which results from gene mutations that reduce beta cell function. Often misdiagnosed as type 1 or type ...

Classification systems have been widely utilized in medical domain to explore patient’s data and extract a predictive model. This model helps physicians to improve their prognosis, diagnosis or treatment planning procedures. Diabetes disease diagnosis via proper interpretation of the diabetes data is an important classification problem. Most methods of classification either ignore feature analy...

background: although gestational diabetes is a well-known cause of pregnancy complications, its epidemiology in iran has not been studied systematically. the aim of this review of published data was to describe epidemiology of gestational diabetes in iran. methods: we searched medline, www.sid.ir, www.magiran.com, www.iranmedex.com, and www.irandoc.ac.ir sites through march 2009, and examined t...

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...

OBJECTIVE To identify the clinical and genetic factors that explain why the rate of diabetes progression is highly variable between individuals following diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 5,250 patients with type 2 diabetes using comprehensive electronic medical records in Tayside, Scotland, from 1992 onward. We investigated the association of clinical, bioc...

Based on etiology, diabetes is classified as type 1 diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes mellitus, latent autoimmune diabetes, maturity-onset diabetes of youth, and miscellaneous causes. The diagnosis is based on measurement of A1C level, fasting or random blood glucose level, or oral glucose tolerance testing. Although there are conflicting guidelines, most agree that patients with hypertension ...

Received in final form December 15, 2015. Dr. Saul M. Genuth is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Dr. Jerry P. Palmer is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition, and Associate Director of the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center at the University of Washington/Veterans Affa...