Diabetes PubMed

Dynamic pupillometry provides a simple, inexpensive, and noninvasive tool to screen high-risk diabetic patients for diabetic autonomic neuropathy.

As a result, these solid state detectors may offer a portable and cost-effective alternative to more bulky systems for noninvasive diabetes detection by human breath analysis.

This paper will critically summarize the potential advantages and limitations of HbA1c as a recommended test for diagnosing diabetes.

The postprandial (after breakfast) plasma glucose has closer association to glycosylated hemoglobin than fasting plasma glucose, therefore evaluating postprandial plasma glucose should be our focus.

In the US population, screening for type 2 diabetes is cost effective when started between the ages of 30 years and 45 years, with screening repeated every 3-5 years.

Physician diagnosis and treatment rates of diabetes have significantly improved during this period, but glycemic control was still poorer than that in other developed countries.

Early diagnosis of DM and good compensation of diabetes, blood pressure and serum lipids level can postpone the onset of DR as well as the visual functions impairments.

Because diabetic osteoarthropathy is mostly irreversible, early diagnosis is necessary to prevent its progression.

Changes and adjustments in treatment from diagnosis of diabetes occur when HbA1c levels are far above those recommended by the IDF (International Diabetes Federation), a factor which could be contributing to the development of both macrovascular and microvascular complications in the patient profile described in the study.

Post-load low insulin response is seen as a predictor of mortality rates for patients with no previous diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.

Educational and counseling messages should stress that a diagnosis of diabetes is not a death sentence, and full functional capacity can be maintained with good control.

A decreased early C-peptide response to oral glucose and an increased later response occur at least two years before the diagnosis of T1D.

Unfortunately, several studies have shown increased diagnosis and lack of glycemic control of diabetes mellitus when patients are taking high and/or long-term doses of statins, and several mechanisms have been identified that may help explain this side effect.

A shift to an HbA(1c)-based diagnosis for diabetes will have substantially different consequences for diabetes prevalence across ethnic groups and populations.

Hospital-based HbA1c testing might identify patients for whom further testing is indicated to make the diagnosis of diabetes.

Elevated levels of CRP and fibrinogen and reduced level of adiponectin can be used for early diagnosis of T2DM and can predict diabetic complications

These findings point to the need for further research along several avenues, such as maternal-child outcome differences and perhaps ethnic-specific guidelines for GDM diagnosis.

These results support recommendations that screening for co-morbidity should occur at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

Concomitant CPD and BA significantly increase the risk of DM2 and require the development of measures for its diagnosis and prevention.

The programme facilitating the diagnosis of early hypoglycemic symptoms--Blood Glucose Awareness Training--decreases road traffic collision number.