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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Diabetes--Treatment"”.
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Role of Cultural and Psychological Factors Influencing Diabetes Treatment Adherence
… with lifestyle change (CDC, 2013). Type 2 diabetes is a growing global epidemic, and its prevalence is predicted to increase from 6.4% (285 million adults) in 2010 to 7.7% (439 million adults) by 2030 (Shaw, Sicree, & Zimmet, 2010). Given the reality of cultural diversity in contemporary …
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General Fatalism and Diabetes Fatalism as Predictors of Diabetes Treatment Adherence
… as a predictor of health behaviors such as diabetes treatment adherence. We tested an integrated, theory-driven structural model of relationships among income, education, age, gender, general fatalism, diabetes fatalism, and type 2 diabetes treatment adherence, as measured by hemoglobin a1c …
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Grape Extracts for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Through Specific Inhibition of α-Glucosidase and Antioxidant Protection
… associated with obesity-induced type 2 diabetes. Because intestinal α-glucosidase plays a key role in the digestion and absorption of complex carbohydrates, the inhibition of this enzyme is a metabolic target for managing diabetes by improving post-prandial blood glucose control. …
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Engineering the human gut microbiome through personalized dietary interventions
… diarrheal diseases to metabolic syndromes like diabetes. Treatment of these diseases will likely require targeted therapeutic interventions aimed at modulating the abundance and metabolism of specific commensal microbial species or probiotics. A promising avenue for such interventions is through …
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Socioeconomic Status and the Management of Chronic Conditions: Implications for the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health
… patient adherence to various components of the diabetes treatment regimen. The mechanisms largely responsible for these disparities are differences in patients' education levels and gaps in insurance coverage. For a few components of the regimen, marital status and delay in adherence by recently …
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ΘΕΡΑΠΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΑΓΩΓΗ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΒΗΤΙΚΩΝ. ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΟΥ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΣ
… MEASURED FIRST: THE LEVEL OFKNOWLEDGE CONCERNING DIABETES MELLITUS OF A GROUP OF PATIENTS IN AN OUT-PATIENT CLINIC BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AND, SECOND: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING THE VARIABILITY OF THIS KNOWLEDGE. ORIGINALLY, THE STUDY SAMPLE …
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Fabrication of reinforced alginate fibers for cell based therapies
Type I Diabetes is a condition in which the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, leading to dysregulation in glucose metabolism. Most Type I diabetics take insulin injections after each meal in order to remain euglycemic. Transplantations of islet cells in immuno-protective alginate capsules …
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Changes in the characteristics of new drug applications for the treatment and prevention of diabetes mellitus
Efforts in managing diabetes, including the medical advances in novel therapies and public health policies of disease control and prevention, have not reduced the disease prevalence since 1990s. I analyze this phenomenon from the technology and policy viewpoints underlying diabetes treatment and …
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Baicalein, a novel anti-diabetic compound
Both in type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), the deterioration of glycemic control over time is primarily caused by an inadequate mass and progressive dysfunction of ?-cells, leading to the impaired insulin secretion. Thus, the search for agents to protect b-cell and enhance its function is …
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Injectable Systems for Long-Lasting Insulin Therapy
<p>Diabetes mellitus is one of the major global health problems and the prevalence rate is ever increasing reaching to 48% increase by the year of 2040 causing significant economic burdens. Insulin therapy has been the mainstay of diabetes treatment since its discovery in 1922. However, insulin is …
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Implementing an Evidence Based Practice Guideline to Standardize the Care of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
… in standardizing the care for adults with type 2 diabetes. The goal was to improve patients’ glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels to less than 8% and Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) levels to less than 100mg/dL. The Implementation Model, adapted by Titler (2010) and built on Rogers Diffusion …
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Children's adjustment to asthma or diabetes and treatment adherence
… for children with asthma and children with diabetes and their parents, which assess children's adjustment to the illness and treatment adherence. Secondly, to test the hypothesis of an association between children's adjustment and treatment adherence. The essence of asthma and diabetes …
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Encapsulation as a 3D model for human embryonic stem cell propagation and differentiation
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by the destruction of the beta cells of the pancreas. Current treatments for are whole pancreas or islet transplantation, which is limited by scarcity of cadaveric pancreata. Therefore, developing a cell replacement therapy with renewable sources of …
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Advancing nursing jurisdiction in diabetes care
… has its own unique contribution to make to diabetes care, but that impact is rarely quantified, measured or conceptualised. The thesis makes this contribution in the form of three published research projects and proposes an adaptation to Abbott’s conceptual framework on the division of …
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Spectrum of sub-clinical cardiovascular diseases among adult patients with diabetes in out-patient clinic at the University Teaching Hospital in Zambia
… risk factors accounts for this growing burden. Diabetes in all its forms is one of the main cardiovascular risk factors. Two out of three diabetic patients will die because of cardiovascular complications. The association between Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease has been established in many …
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A Physiologically-based Evaluation of a Multidisciplinary Team Approach to the Treatment of Diabetes
<p>Diabetes mellitus affects millions of individuals in the United States. It is a devastating disease in terms of human suffering, loss of life, and the economy (Levetan & Ratner, 1995). Decreases in HbAlc in the blood are correlated with fewer complications of diabetes (Diabetes Forecast, 1993). …
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Carnosic acid against insulin resistance and obesity. Investigating its effects on adipocytes.
… obesity leads to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes (T2D). White adipose tissue (WAT) primarily stores energy as lipids while brown adipose tissue (BAT) regulates thermogenesis by dissipating energy in a form of heat. The process of browning involves transdifferention of WAT into brown-like …
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Improvement of D-glucaric acid production in Escherichia coli
… including biopolymer production, cancer and diabetes treatment, cholesterol reduction, and as a replacement for polyphosphates in detergents. This molecule was identified in 2004 as a "Top Value-Added Chemical from Biomass" by the U.S. Department of Energy (Werpy and Petersen, 2004), implying …
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Acculturation and associated factors in relation to glycemic control and self-management of diabetes in Asian Indian adults in the U.S
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Human Nutrition, 2010
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