Limited diabetes numeracy may be an important factor affecting diabetes care and treatment adherence. This study assessed the relationship between the Diabetes Numeracy Test (DNT-15 score) and patient and treatment variables. Patients who had type 1 diabetes and those who received care from specialty centers had higher levels of numeracy, but this did not translate into improved glucose control.

BACKGROUND Absolute cardiovascular risk assessment (CVRA) is based on the combined effects of multiple risk factors and can identify asymptomatic individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Indigenous people of Australia, are disproportionately affected by CVD and diabetes. Our study aimed to investigate variations in the use of ab...

Diabetes is an epidemic disease of the 21st century and is growing globally. Although, final diabetes treatments and cure are still on research phase, related complications of diabetes endanger life of diabetic patients. Diabetic coma which happens with extreme high or low blood glucose is one of the risk factor for diabetic patients and if it remains unattended will lead to patient death or pe...

OBJECTIVE Understanding the reasons and eliminating the pervasive health disparities in diabetes is a major research, clinical, and health policy goal. We examined whether health literacy, general numeracy, and diabetes-related numeracy explain the association between African American race and poor glycemic control (A1C) in patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Adults with type ...

H ealth care systems have played a central role in the public health response to the growing problem of diabetes (1–2) and its complications. During the 1990s, managed care organizations (MCOs) began seeking systemlevel approaches to improve diabetes outcomes and control costs in covered populations. Although previous clinical trials (3–6) had demonstrated that several clinical interventions co...

Background: With regard to the particularly high prevalence, cost, and number of disabilities associated with diabetes, increasing patients’ knowledge and skills for managing the disease can help minimize the risks of complications. Objective: The present study aimed to design and evaluate a mobile-based application with which patients with type 2 diabete...

research centers are among the most important institutes in a scientific society. using the altavista search engine and webometric methods, this research tries to find the performance and impact of the top research centers of the islamic world countries. the results reveal that from 57 countries, 40 of them did not have any research centers scored in webometric ranking and the rest of them had ...