Blood Pressure Measurement in Diabetes Clinic: Are we paying enough attention?

Are we paying enough attention to adolescent nutrition?

This issue of the journal focuses on studies undertaken in adolescent populations around the world. Roger Hughes’ ‘In this issue’ piece highlights key findings in some of these studies. Particularly challenging is the persistence of undernutrition alongside overnutrition in South African children. The 2005 National Food Consumption Survey of South Africa results were presented at the South Afri...

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults: are we paying sufficient attention?

Heterogeneity has been recently highlighted as a relevant characteristic of diabetes mellitus. The current classification of diabetes mellitus includes two main types of the disease, i.e. type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The latter is by far the most prevalent one. Nevertheless, there is a significant proportion of subjects with autoimmune diabetes mellitus that are classified as type 2 diabetic pat...

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults: are we paying sufficient attention? Diabetes autoinmune latente del adulto: ¿estamos prestando suficiente atención?

Heterogeneity has been recently highlighted as a relevant characteristic of diabetes mellitus. The current classification of diabetes mellitus includes two main types of the disease, i.e. type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The latter is by far the most prevalent one. Nevertheless, there is a significant proportion of subjects with autoimmune diabetes mellitus that are classified as type 2 diabetic pat...

Detection of Optic Neuropathy and 3-month Follow-up of an Adolescent Inhalant User: Are we Paying Enough Attention?

Sir, Very few centers provide specialty treatment services for adolescent drug users in India. When an adolescent presents with chronic drug use, often the resultant psychosocial complications are assessed in detail, however the physical complications (unless gross or with overt manifestation) are often overlooked in general clinical settings. Inhalant abuse is known to be especially more preva...

Coronary thrombosis in diabetes: Are we doing enough?