The evidence continues to strengthen our understanding that improved glycemic control with the use of insulin therapy may significantly improve morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients with hyperglycemia, with or without a previous diagnosis of diabetes. However, many questions remain concerning the impact and relative contributions of blood glucose and insulin per se. Nevertheless, the...

The goal of the study was to explore low-income minority patients' concepts of diabetes self-management and assess the extent to which patient beliefs correspond to evidence-based recommendations. African American and Mexican American patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited from safety net clinics that serve the uninsured and under-insured in Chicago and San Francisco to participate in foc...

Recently, mobile health care has been applied to manage diabetes requiring self-management. Health care by mobile applications (apps) has a great advantage when applied to patients with diabetes; the adherence to self-management activities for diabetes can be improved through mobile apps. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared and approved the use of some mobile apps as medical devi...

DCCT Research Group was compelled to end the study 1 year early. This gave the conventionally treated patients the opportunity to have the benefits of intensive diabetes management. With the evidence that high blood glucose levels increase the risk of developing complications of diabetes, tight blood glucose control has become the benchmark for successful diabetes management (Diabetes UK, 2000;...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between decision making and successful diabetes self-management. BACKGROUND Patients with type II diabetes make routine but critical self-management decisions. METHOD We conducted cognitive task analysis interviews with 18 patients to examine problem detection, functional relationships, problem-solving strategies, and types of knowledge used to make self...

Background: Integrating spiritual principles with practical principles may be a strategy to assist persons to understand how to make positive health decisions. Faith-based programs can allow individuals to acquire the diabetes knowledge necessary to manage their disease and practice the necessary lifestyle changes within the context of their culture and community. Therefore, the purpose of this...

Over the past 10 years more than 10,000 papers and in vitro investigations have been published that identify or analyse various critical pathways and biological processes through which the phytoalexin resveratrol has been shown to attenuate the metabolic dysfunctions, acute symptomatology and the consequential downstream pathologies related to type 2 diabetes. More recently, several clinical tr...