• Critically ill patients have the issue of poor glucose control, which includes the presence of dysglycemia and high glycemic variability. • Current clinical practice follows the guidelines suggested by the NICESugar trial to control the blood sugar level for cricital care. • However, there are overwhelming variations in clinical conditions and physiological states among patients under critica...

The recent demonstration (1–3) of the benefits of intensive glycemic control in hospitalized patients has renewed interest in inpatient management of diabetes. Poor glycemic control is a marker for poor quality of hospital care (4), as well as an important safety issue: insulin is one of five medications most associated with inpatient medication errors (5,6). Moreover, many hospitals continue t...

AIM The association between diabetes and periodontal disease has been well documented. Periodontitis is associated with alterations in immune responses in both diabetic and nondiabetic subjects. While diabetes is considered to be a risk factor for periodontal disease progression, few studies have demonstrated an association between the level of glycemic control and periodontal disease. Although...

Insulin dosing in type 1 diabetes (T1D) has been focused primarily on carbohydrate intake, but recent evidence highlights the importance of dietary fat and protein in glycemic excursions. Several methods have been developed to incorporate dietary fat and protein into insulin dose calculations, including fat-protein units (FPUs) that estimate insulin requirements based on ingested fat and protei...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases, and its prevalence is predicted to increase in the next two decades. Diabetes imposes a staggering financial burden on the health care system, so information about the costs and experiences of collecting and reporting quality measures of data is vital for practices deciding whether to adopt quality improvements or monitor existi...

BACKGROUND Patients with diabetes have increased incidence and severity of periodontal disease not accounted for by differences in the subgingival microbial infection. Poor glycemic control has been consistently associated with periodontal disease severity. Also, recent evidence suggests that hyperglycemia may induce inflammatory cytokine production. Few studies, however, have examined local bi...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is a growing healthcare burden primarily due to long-term complications. Strict glycemic control helps in preventing complications, and early introduction of insulin may be more cost-effective than maintaining patients on multiple oral agents. This is an expert opinion review based on English peer-reviewed articles (2000-2012) to discuss the health economic conseq...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate glycemic control in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients followed in 1998. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied 38 patients [22 males; age = 10.4 -/+ 4.1 years; 12 (31.6%) prepubertal, 26 (68.4%) pubertal], with diabetes duration of 3.7-/+3.4 years and age of diagnosis of 7.2 -/+ 4.7 years. HbA1c was determined using high-performance liquid chromatography (L-9100 Merck Hitachi, ...

Materials and Methods: A total of 90 subjects of both sex groups, aged between 45–60 years were enrolled for this study. Of 90 subjects, 60 were patients with type 2 diabetes and 30 were healthy without diabetes. Glycemic status was categorized as good glycemic control if glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) <7% and poor glycemic control if HbA1c ≥7%. Serum fasting blood sugar (FBS) was measured by Gluc...