Diabetes Health Disparities: Prevention, Treatment, Policy

Twenty million Americans have diabetes and the disease can take multitudinous fo...

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Believing that people with diabetes should be the best prepared and motivated to...

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Author: K Wikblad

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teena...

Author: W Rathmann

Abstract: The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well known, and many determinants of these health inequalities have been studied. Concerning the role of health care, the results are conflicting, though. The study adds to this discuss...

Author: Arleen F Brown

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Recent data suggest that residential environment may influence health behaviors and outcomes. We assessed whether perception of neighborhood problems was associated with diabetes behaviors and outcomes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This cr...

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Abstract: Diabetes is a serious public health problem in the United States. The burden of the disease has had a significant impact on individuals, communities, and society at large, and the number of people with diabetes is expected to double by the year 2025....

Author: N J Wareham

Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To assess mortality risk in people classified by the Cambridge risk score (CRS), a previously validated simple screening tool for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes that uses only information routinely available in primary care. SETTING: Random ...

Author: C J Currie

Abstract: AIMS: The purpose of this study was to characterize the impact of body mass index (BMI) on health-related utility for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and those without diabetes. METHODS: The study was conducted in Cardiff and the Vale of Gla...

Author: J David Curb

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To compare the prevalence of diabetes according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and World Health Organization (WHO) classifications in a sample of elderly Japanese-American men; to examine the association with total and cardiova...

Author: T J Orchard

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To determine whether diabetes care characteristics and glycemic control differ by use of specialist care in a representative cohort of patients with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Health care, sociodemographic characteristic...

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Author: Steven A Smith

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The Mayo Health System Diabetes Translation Project sought to assess models of community-based diabetes care and use of a diabetes electronic management system (DEMS). Planned care is a redesigned model of chronic disease care that involve...

Author: Shin Ushiro

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Author: M Hanefeld

Abstract: Based upon epidemiological studies it is assumed that the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is approximately 8 million patients in Germany. Since a significant increase of risk for diabetes and in parallel an increase of vascular and mortality risk was...

Author: M Devecerski

Abstract: According of data of the antidiabetic medical service, in Yugoslavia there are registered 380,000 patients with diabetes. This makes 1.70% of total population. In northern parts of the country, with a higher development of agriculture, industrializat...

Author: J C Will

Abstract: The pilot study for a sentinel health events surveillance system for deaths among persons under age 45 with diabetes was conducted in six states in 1984 and 1985. Two hundred and thirty-three events were identified. Information from death certificate...

Author: F Dunne

Abstract: Irish Travellers are an ethnic minority group exposed to a myriad of social and health inequalities. Their current life expectancy equals that of the background population in the 1940s and one of the main causes of death is cardiovascular disease (CV...

Author: D W Guthrie

Abstract: PURPOSE: This study examined the relationship between health-compromising behavior, age, gender, and diabetes mismanagement. METHODS: A total of 107 adolescents and young adults, 12 to 24 years old, with type 1 diabetes were asked to complete a healt...

Author: H Lunt

Abstract: AIMS. The study aims were as follows: (1) To obtain information regarding Maori attitudes to diabetes and to the services provided by a specialist diabetes clinic in Christchurch; (2) to initiate discussion about local diabetes health care delivery f...

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Author: Henry S Kahn

Abstract: Objective- This study examined the association between access to health care and 3 classifications of diabetes status: diagnosed, undiagnosed, and no diabetes. Research design and methods- Using data from the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition E...

Author: AlH A Kablan

Abstract: The aim of this study was to assess the standards of care and patients' knowledge and practices at Benghazi Diabetes Centre, the largest diabetes registry in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. A sample of 805 attending patients was interviewed over 2 months...