Diabetes research and clinical practice
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Mar 2014
Anthropometric measures of abdominal adiposity for the identification of cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescents.
Sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) was obtained in 65 adolescents referred for assessment of cardiometabolic risk. We found that SAD was associated with cardiometabolic risk factors independent of BMI in males, but that SAD was not superior to BMI or other measures of abdominal adiposity for the detection of metabolic syndrome.
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Mar 2014
Case ReportsSevere acute renal failure in patients treated with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists.
We report two patients with diabetes in whom acute renal failure requiring hemodialysis occurred while on treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists. We discuss the mechanisms of this complication and the potential for its prevention.
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Feb 2014
Diabetes in the young - a global view and worldwide estimates of numbers of children with type 1 diabetes.
This paper describes the methodology, results and limitations of the 2013 International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Atlas (6th edition) estimates of the worldwide numbers of prevalent cases of type 1 diabetes in children (<15 years). The majority of relevant information in the published literature is in the form of incidence rates derived from registers of newly diagnosed cases. Studies were graded on quality criteria and, if no information was available in the published literature, extrapolation was used to assign a country the rate from an adjacent country with similar characteristics. ⋯ Compared with the prevalence estimates made in previous editions of the IDF Diabetes Atlas, the numbers have increased in most of the IDF Regions, often reflecting the incidence rate increases that have been well-documented in many countries. Monogenic diabetes is increasingly being recognised among those with clinical features of type 1 or type 2 diabetes as genetic studies become available, but population-based data on incidence and prevalence show wide variation due to lack of standardisation in the studies. Similarly, studies on type 2 diabetes in childhood suggest increased incidence and prevalence in many countries, especially in Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, but detailed population-based studies remain limited.
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Jan 2014
Glucose as a risk predictor in acute medical emergency admissions.
The aims of this study were to examine the relationship between admission blood glucose and mortality in a large, unselected cohort of acutely ill medical patients and to assess the impact of diabetes on this relationship. ⋯ In patients without diabetes, an abnormal serum glucose is independently predictive of an increased mortality among the broad cohort of acute emergency medical patients. Similar disturbances of glucose homeostasis for patients with diabetes do not confer equivalent adverse prognostic implications.
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Oct 2013
Case ReportsLower extremities and iliopsoas pyomyositis with concurrent septic arthritis and spinal epidural abscess in a diabetic patient.
Pyomyositis is a rarely encountered infection among diabetics, which usually affects lower extremities. Herein, we present a case of lower extremities and iliopsoas pyomyositis with concurrent septic arthritis and spinal epidural abscess in a patient with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus.