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Epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of type-1 diabetes.
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and UKPDS trial have confirmed the importance of normoglycaemia for preventing diabetic complications. Self-monitoring of blood glucose, hailed as a vitally important development in diabetes management, costs the NHS more than 120 million each year (Diabet Med ...
Current situation Patients with type-2 diabetes should be considered high risk ... agents in the primary and secondary prevention of CHD in diabetes patients. Many patients with diabetes ... 2004;291:335-42). What is the evidence? The Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study (CARDS ...
The efficacy of self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with newly diagnosed type-2 diabetes (ESMON) randomised controlled trial found that newly diagnosed type-2 diabetics were unlikely to gain ... from the diabetes glycaemic education and monitoring (DiGEM) randomised controlled trial showed ...
disease in people with type-2 diabetes ( Diabet Med 2008; 25: 1295-301 ). The ACCORD trial showed a ... that intensive glucose control in patients with poorly controlled type-2 diabetes had no significant effect ... on mortality of intensive glucose control in newly diagnosed type-2 diabetes were sustained for up to 10 years ...
The problem You took a telephone call from the carer of a 72-year-old diabetic man in sheltered ... of diabetes does he have? Does he have diabetic complications? What drugs does he take and have there been any ... infections - should be ruled out. I would have a look at his records to find out how well his diabetic ...
CURRENT SITUATION - The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and the UK Prospective Diabetes Study have confirmed the importance of normoglycaemia for the subsequent prevention of diabetic complications. - Self-monitoring of blood glucose, hailed as one of the most important developments in diabetes ...
The case: This 69-year-old obese diabetic man presented to the surgery with a long history of a.... Predisposing factors include excessive sweating, obesity, diabetes, poor hygiene, advanced age and other ...
Current situation Diabetic nephropathy, which is originally microvascular in nature, is an important complication of diabetes. Microalbuminuria is the presence of 20 200 g/min levels of albumin ... mortality. Half of patients with diabetes develop microalbuminuria. What is the evidence? One ...
Current situation Many patients with type-2 diabetes will need more than one drug to control ... ; 366: 1279). The trial, including 5,238 patients with type-2 diabetes and evidence of macrovascular ... cholesterol levels in patients with type-2 diabetes (Diabetes Care 2005; 28: 1547). However, a ...
Metabolic problems, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, thyroid disorders, dyslipidaemia ... : Symptoms Diabetes mellitus Hyperlipidaemia Obesity Thyroid disorders Other ... articles Symptoms Diabetes mellitus: polydipsia, polyuria ...
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