... meeting any exclusion criteria were invited to participate, and were included after accepting and signing an informed consent form Methods Visits in both groups included the usual care and individual ... Carlos III (PI 02/ 0567) Author details Fundación Investigación Biomédica Hospital Carlos III SERMAS Madrid Spain 2Unidad de Nutrición Hospital Ramón y Cajal SERMAS Madrid Spain Unidad de Formación ... received training in the PRECEDE model before patients were included in the study This specific training involved two steps: first they were instructed about the basic, theoretical, and practical...
... will deteriorate 13 Injecting insulin is embarrassing 14 Injecting insulin is painful 15 It is difficult to always inject insulin correctly 16 Insulin makes it difficult to fulfil my responsibilities ... the risk of hypoglycaemia Insulin will improve health Insulin will cause weight gain 10 Insulin will be demanding to administer 11 Insulin means I have to give up activities I enjoy 12 Insulin ... signifies diabetes has worsened Insulin will improve prognosis Insulin will make others perceive greater sickness Insulin will make life less flexible Fear of needle injection Insulin will increase...
... people withtypediabetes who were living in France by using a scale specific to diabetes The original DHP-18 is a validated instrument for Page of use with people withtypediabetes [17] Concerning ... Med 20 04, 33:161-166 doi:10.1186/1477-7 525 -8- 124 Cite this article as: Boini et al.: Factors associated with psychological and behavioral functioning in people withtypediabetes living in France ... was defined in this study as myocardial infarction or angina, or heart arteries surgery, and no distinction could be performed between myocardial infarction and angina Moreover, no information about...
... participated in four one-hour sessions of individual counselling with a diabetes nurse specialist, who had a bachelor’s degree in education and was trained in motivational interviewing [19] Using ... HbA1c Main reasons for missing data after randomisation and during the intervention period were dropout due to time constraints and disappointment with randomisation and lost questionnaires Vadstrup ... and well-being in relation to glycemic control intype II diabetesDiabetes Care 1996, 19 :20 4-10 21 25 26 27 28 29 Testa MA, Simonson DC: Health economic benefits and quality of life during improved...
... will deteriorate 13 Injecting insulin is embarrassing 14 Injecting insulin is painful 15 It is difficult to always inject insulin correctly 16 Insulin makes it difficult to fulfil my responsibilities ... the risk of hypoglycaemia Insulin will improve health Insulin will cause weight gain 10 Insulin will be demanding to administer 11 Insulin means I have to give up activities I enjoy 12 Insulin ... signifies diabetes has worsened Insulin will improve prognosis Insulin will make others perceive greater sickness Insulin will make life less flexible Fear of needle injection Insulin will increase...
... Test J Hand Ther 1993, 6:11 -22 Bell-Krotoski J, Weinstein S, Weinstein C: Testing sensibility, including touch-pressure, two-point discrimination, point localization, and vibration J Hand Ther ... varies widely in studies, depending on the criteria for diagnosis and the sensitivity of its detection [3] A community-based study [4] found a prevalence of 42% in persons diagnosed withTypediabetes ... groups withdiabetes (ANOVA with Bonferroni multiple comparisons p < 0.001) Interestingly the BMI, and diastolic blood pressures are significantly greater in the NEW group compared with the EST diabetes...
... determine the accuracy of PHQ-9 and CES-D questionnaires in screening for major depressive disorder in Iranian patients withtypediabetes Sensitivity and specificity of the PHQ-9 in this study differ ... (PHQ-9), in comparison with clinical interview in Iranian people withdiabetes Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted at Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism (IEM) affiliated to ... 20 05, 27 :344-351 Egede LE, Zheng D, Simpson K: Comorbid depression is associated with increased health care use and expenditures in individuals withdiabetesDiabetes Care 20 02, 25 :464-470 Piette...
... points are indicated by the vertical lines in Figures and Inspection of the individual item contributions to the total information at the cutoff point (Table 6) showed that for distinguishing ... total test information at each cutoff point These individual contributions give an indication of which items are the most reliable indicators for distinguishing mild from no depression, and severe ... higher discrimination than the other items Under the Rasch model, such deviating item discrimination is identified as item misfit Discarding item seems to be an unfortunate choice since, as was Page...
... of 30 minutes of daily exercise Over the same time period, patients participated in three individual counselling sessions with a dietician who was also trained in motivational interviewing [18] ... (by 5 .2 points, p=0. 12) and increased significantly within the individual group (by 5.6 points, p=0.03) In all other items the increases were small and did not reach a statistical significant ... from a conditionwith a 5-point lower vitality score (compared with patients without that condition) had significantly increased odds of inability to work (odds ratio, OR, 1 .27 ), job loss within...
... dissection and electric stimulation is necessary to identify motor dominant funiculi that mainly innervate the wrist or finger flexors Funicular dissection is associated with a risk of injuring healthy ... flexion from the finger and wrist motion than did those following ICNT Studies on brain plasticity using magnetic resonance imaging or electrophysiological stimulation have revealed several interesting ... 110° against gravity was regarded as full flexion of the joint All patients could extend their elbow joints to 0° actively or with the aid of the gravity before the final examination Obtaining the...
... patient populations Other clinical populations need investigation Finally, we utilized a simple hypothetical decision tree model to examine the impact of variability in EQ-5D index scores on ICUR ... proposed guidelines J Clin Epidemiol 1993, 46:1417-14 32 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Kaplan RM, Feeny D, Revicki DA: Methods forassessing relative importance in preference based outcome measures ... Thailand, between January-June, 20 07 Patients withtype diabetics waiting for seeing physicians were approached to participate in this study Patients who were eligible for the study were at least...
... findings are in accordance with previous studies, describing similar quality of life scales of patients with hypertension and those without any chronic condition [28 ,29 ] One reason for this finding ... people without diabetes According to the literature the number of comorbid conditions was associated with a lower quality of life in all domains of the SF-36 [26 ,27 ] Interestingly in our study patients ... diabetes Quality of life (QoL) in patients withdiabetes is reduced and patients are impaired in nearly all domains of daily life [2, 3] In addition patients withdiabetes are more likely to suffer...
... cortical hand bone loss was also predicted by prednisolone use Discussion The main finding in this five-year longitudinal study of patients with RA of short disease duration was that cortical hand ... dependent variable and the baseline, dichotomised serological biomarkers as independent variables Secondly, the independent variables with P ≤ 0 .25 were included in multivariate logistic regression analyses ... the independent variables with a P ≤ 0 .25 were included in multivariate linear analyses The final multivariate models with only statistically significant variables were obtained by stepwise exclusion...
... (Amlodipine, (Amlodipine, Nifedipine) Nifedipine) Use in combination Use in combination Other Agents Other Agents (Clonidine?) (Clonidine?) Not 1st or 2nd line Not 1st or 2nd line International Diabetes ... with 0.3U/kg total daily dose of mixed insulin with 2/ 3rds administered in the morning and 1/3rd administered in the evening Increase dose by units after pattern is recognized International Diabetes ... activities & weight-bearing activities: brisk walking, field sports, hiking, rollerblading, etc • 93rd-97th percentile BMI Primarily non-weight-bearing: swimming, cycling, circuit training, arm-specific...
... minimize interviewer biases, all interviewers were well trained in interview techniques and provided with an introductory sheet as well as an interview protocol before study initiation It was ... prevalent in developed countries, its proportional increase is higher in developing world with the highest increase in India and China.(88, 89) DM is also one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in ... public. (23 ) In addition, as there is an obvious and worrying trend of downward age shift with T2DM being increasingly diagnosed among younger Thais, resulting from an increasing trend of childhood obesity,...
... increased in idiopathic ILD as well asin SSc-associated ILD, indicating an important, but nonspecific contribution of these chemokines in lung fibrosis As tested here for SSc patients, CCL2 concentrations ... study, the activation of T cells by IL-7 could be important for SSc-ILD In line with this, andin addition to the clinical associations of IL-4, IL -2 concentrations correlate with predicted DLCO ... [36] and SSc-associated ILD [37] In line with this, blockade of the IL -2 receptor activation ameliorated bleomycin lung fibrosis [38] In another study, anti-CD3 therapy also diminished bleomycininduced...
... namely pyridinoline and its analogue deoxypyridinoline Although both crosslinks are located in several tissues, deoxypyridinoline is more specifically located in bone, whereas pyridinoline is most ... abundant in cartilage andbone Urinary excretion of deoxypyridinoline is therefore used clinically as a marker of bone metabolism, whereas urinary excretion of pyridinoline is considered to be a biochemical ... degeneration in joint disease Ann Rheum Dis 1986, 45:969-973 Takahashi M, Kushida K, Hoshino H, Suzuki M, Sano M, Miyamoto S, Inoue T: Concentrations of pyridinoline and deoxypyridinoline in joint tissue...
... transcriptase inhibitors such as abacavir and didanosine are associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction in HIV patients [5] Cardiovascular disease is often characterized by development ... consisting of 168 patients with baseline and follow-up measurements for carotid IMT and brachial FMD (Figure 1) Clinical characteristics Data on demographic and certain clinical characteristics ... the relationship between baseline carotid IMT and brachial FMD using Pearson correlation co-efficient Patients were classified as very low, low, medium/high risk if individual Framingham risk scores...