Background Markers of kidney dysfunction such as proteinuria or albuminuria have been
reported to be associated with coronary heart disease, but the consistency and strength of …

AIM: Population studies suggest a link between albuminuria, reduced glomerular filtration
rate (GFR) and retinopathy and macrovascular events in type 2 diabetes. The aim of this …

Persons with diabetes make up the fastest growing group of kidney dialysis and transplant
recipients in the United States. In 1985, when the first edition of Diabetes in America was …

Diabetes mellitus affects about 8% of the adult population. The estimated number of patients
with diabetes, presently about 170 million people, is expected to increase by 50–70% within …

OBJECTIVE—Using the National Health Insurance claim data, we prospectively investigated
the age-and sex-specific incidence density and relative hazards of nontraumatic lower …

OBJECTIVE: To explore the way Thai patients perceive and manage their diabetes.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Using a focused ethnographic approach, face-to …

lundberg pc & thrakul s.(2012) Type 2 diabetes: how do Thai Buddhist people with diabetes
practise self‐management? Journal of Advanced Nursing68 (3), 550–558. Abstract Aims …

lundberg pc & thrakul s (2011) Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness 3, 52–
60 Diabetes type 2 self‐management among Thai Muslim women Aim. To explore and …

Objective: To explore the nature of diabetic complications in type 2 diabetic patients who
had had diabetes for longer than 15 years (long-DM), compared to those with duration of …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate infection-related mortality and its predictors in Brazilian type 2
diabetic patients. METHODS: It was carried out a long-term prospective study with 471 type …