Objective: Academic health services play an important role in the prevention and control of diabetes mellitus (DM) in Iran. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of DM-related complications and the associated risk factors among patients with DM in a university-affiliated outpatient diabetes clinic of a referral hospital in Southeast of Iran, Zahedan. Materials and Methods: This cross-...

D iabetes complications represent a huge burden for patients and health services. The fight against each single complication has led to significant improvements in diabetes care, especially for microvascular complications, yet macroangiopathy remains a major source of morbidity and mortality. A common approach for the prevention and treatment of diabetes complications relies on the understandin...

T he Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program (VACSP) has just initiated a trial of the effect of intensive glucose control on cardiovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes. The name of the trial is “VACSP #465, Glycemic Control and Complications in Diabetes Mellitus type 2” (V.A. Diabetes Trial [VADT]). The trial is expected to generate discussion in the diabetes community ...

Diabetes mellitus is a complex and progressive metabolic disease which is associated with multiple complications. Chronic hyperglycaemia is the defining characteristic of diabetes mellitus. Hyperglycaemia leads to generation of free radicals and induces oxidative stress, which has become the chief factor that leads to diabetic complications. This review supports the use of antioxidant vitamins ...

Monocytes express many cell surface markers indicative of their inflammatory and activation status. Whether these markers are affected by diabetes and its complications is not known and was investigated in this study. Blood was obtained from 22 nondiabetic and 43 diabetic subjects with a duration of diabetes >10 years, including 25 without and 18 with clinically significant complications. The n...

Introduction Patients with diabetes mellitus comprise over 10% of Kaiser Permanente (KP) nationwide membership. Because complications accompany the disease, patients with diabetes account for a disproportionately increased share of medical expenditures. In the KP Northern California Region, patients with diabetes use 2.4 times more medical resources than patients without diabetes. Cardiovascula...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the cost of diabetes related micro- and macrovascular complications in Iranian people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS In routine clinical practice, people with type 2 diabetes mellitus were assessed for 10 years at a diabetes care center. The type of medications and clinical data were extracted from patients' documents. Mortality rate and the incidence of micro- ...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to identify association between the continuity of ambulatory care of diabetes patients in South Korea (hereafter Korea) and the incidence of macrovascular complications of diabetes, using claims data compiled by the National Health Insurance Services of Korea. METHODS This study was conducted retrospectively. The subjects of the study were 43 002 patients...