Objective: to understand the influence of network and social support in the care of a child with type 1 diabetes. Method: qualitative study, with assumptions of ethnonursing, conducted in a reference service specialized in the treatment of diabetes, in 2014, in the city of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil. Twenty-six members of the family and their respective school children participated in ...

apoptosis is a complex network of biochemical and molecular pathway with fine regulatory mechanisms that control the death event during several pathological situations in multi cellular organisms. it is the part of normal development that occurs in a variety of diseases and is known as aberrant apoptosis. pancreatic β cell apoptosis is also a pathological feature which is common in both type 1 ...

Augmented accuracy in prediction of diabetes will open up new frontiers in health prognostics. Data overfitting is a performance-degrading issue in diabetes prognosis. In this study, a prediction system for the disease of diabetes is presented where the issue of overfitting is minimized by using the dropout method. Deep learning neural network is used where both fully connected layers are follo...

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which occurs when the pancreas does not produce sufficient insulin, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. It is an important and relatively common medical condition and is a risk factor for many other medical conditions like stroke, peripheral vascular disease and coronary artery disease. Physicians have to elicit a comprehensive...