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Assessment of factors associated with diabetic retinopathy among diabetic patients in Zambia
… the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Africa. Diabetic retinopathy is a common complication of diabetes mellitus that causes visual impairment and subsequent blindness. Early detection and prompt treatment can prevent blindness in up to 90% of patients. The common risk factors for diabetic …
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Diabetes mellitus and oral health: a comparison between diabetic and non-diabetic subjects
… study was to compare the oral health status in diabetic and non-diabetic patients with regards to their oral health problems, oral pathology and self perceived quality of life.A comparative cross-sectional study to determine the common oral complications prevalent in diabetics and non-diabetics …
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Improving Diabetic Outcomes with Caring Communication: Identifying Communication Patterning for the Human Diabetic
… with diabetes (PLD) and the relationship to diabetic outcomes. Caring communication has not been studied for improving diabetic outcomes. Randomized control trials (RCTs) direct care, however people do not do what they told, they need to be included in their care. PLD need a voice to …
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Anti-diabetic properties of GUH
Objective: To investigate anti-diabetic properties of the plant extract known as GUH in comparison to commercially available drugs metformin and rosiglitazone. Methods: Male Wistar rats were fed a maintenance diet (MD) with tap water or a high fat diet (HFD) with sucrose solution for a period of …
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Inflammatory mediators in diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most feared complication of diabetes with an overall prevalence of 21.9-36.8% and may, if untreated, lead to severe visual disability or blindness. DR is histologically characterized by pericyte and endothelial cell loss, formation of acellular vessel strands, …
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Predictive Control of Diabetic Glycemia
… body to insulin (Type 2). The therapy for Type 1 diabetic patients usually consists of insulin injections to substitute for the missing insulin. The decision about the amount of insulin to be taken has to be made by the patient, based on empirically developed rules of thumb. To help the patient …
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Child of the diabetic woman
… personal observations made upon 96 children of diabetic women from their intrauterine life up to the age of ten years, and of information about their mothers and their siblings.
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Vessel identification in diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy is the single largest cause of sight loss and blindness in 18 to 65 year olds. Screening programs for the estimated one to six per- cent of the diabetic population have been demonstrated to be cost and sight saving, howeverthere are insufficient screening resources. Automatic …
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Monitoring non compliant diabetic A1C levels
… project is to identify and connect with, those diabetic patients within the out-patient clinic that are not in compliance with their A1C laboratory values. Contacting these patients to schedule follow up and re-engagement in their health care plan, may improve their overall health care outcomes …
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Premature vascular senescence during diabetic retinopathy
… however, a role for cellular senescence in diabetic retinopathy is unclear. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the senescence profile of human retinal microvascular endothelial cells (HRMECs), to elucidate how this is affected by the diabetic milieu. <br/><br/>HRMECs undergo …
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Candidate Genes for Late Diabetic Complications
… into account also clinical stages dividing the diabetic patients into noninsulin requiring (NIR), insulin requiring for control (IRC) and insulin requiring for survival (IRS) subgroups. Diabetic complications are the result of chronically elevated blood glucose. Genetic factors are believed to …
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Modeling Therapeutic Strategies for Diabetic Pathologies
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Risk assessment tool for diabetic neuropathy.
… on the research related to the risk factors of diabetic neuropathy which was studied and analysed using summarised patient data. Box-Cox regression was used with the response variable (VPT) and a set of clinical variables as potential predictors. Significant predictors were: age, height, weight, …
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Ranolazine: a Potential Anti-diabetic Drug
Diabetes is a life-long chronic disease that affects more than 24 million Americans. Loss of pancreatic beta-cell mass and function is central to the development of both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Therefore, preservation or regeneration of functional beta-cell mass is one of the …
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Baicalein, a novel anti-diabetic compound
… However, it is unclear whether it exerts an anti-diabetic action. Here, we present evidence that baicalein may be a novel anti-diabetic agent. Specifically, dietary intake of baicalein significantly improved hyperglycemia, glucose tolerance, and blood insulin levels in high-fat diet (HFD)-fed …
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Synthesis of sulfonylthioureas as anti-diabetic drugs
… sulfonylthiourea can potentially be used as anti-diabetic agents.
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Diabetic foot: microbiology, pathogenesis and glycan studies
… of morbidity and mortality around the world. Diabetic foot infections remain one of the major complications leading to a leg loss every 3 seconds due to amputations causing mental trauma and distress. In diabetic foot ulcers aerobes, anaerobes and fungus often interact with each other and form …
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Improving diabetic self-management using Glucose Buddy.
… the application “Glucose Buddy” designed for diabetic patients, available on Apple devices, and identified if the application is easy to use for any type of user and the security of the application to protect potentially sensitive health data. The navigation and ease of use of any application …
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Adult diabetic clients' self-care activities
… was to describe self-care activities of adult diabetic clients. Self-care, as conceptualized by Orem (1971, 1980), provided the framework for the study. A total of 106 subjects completed and returned a mailed questionnaire. The Diabetes Self-Care Report, used to collect data, was designed by …
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Diabetic Complications in a Native American Population
… compare it to the national rates. The number of diabetic complications per individual were then examined for correlation with glycemic control.</p>
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