ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2022: Management and support of children and adolescents with diabetes in s...
...Published in Pediatric diabetes
Design and Usability of an Avatar-Based Learning Program to Support Diabetes Education: Quality Improvement Study in Col...
...Published in Journal of diabetes science and technology
This quality improvement study, entitled Avatar-Based LEarning for Diabetes Optimal Control (ABLEDOC), explored the feasibility of delivering an educational program to people with diabetes in Colombia. The aim was to discover how this approach could be used to improve awareness and understanding of the condition, the effects of treatment, and strat...
Culinary strategies to manage glycemic response in people with type 2 diabetes: A narrative review
Published in Frontiers in Nutrition
Diet plays a critical role in the management of many chronic diseases. It is well known that individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) need to pay close attention to foods rich in carbohydrates to better manage their blood sugar. Usually, individuals are told to increase their dietary fiber intake which is associated with better glycemic control and l...
Peer support facilitator and peer perspectives of an inner-regional Australian diabetes prevention and self-management p...
Published in Health & social care in the community
Peer support programmes have been shown to facilitate diabetes prevention and improvements in diabetes self-management. Worldwide, few studies have qualitatively evaluated peer support programs in inner-regional (semi-rural) areas, and none involving mixtures of people with and without diabetes. This study researched an inner-regional peer support ...
Cost-utility analysis of semaglutide for type 2 diabetes after its addition to the National Medical Insurance System in ...
Published in Diabetes, obesity & metabolism
The main research purpose is to compare the long-term cost-effectiveness of semaglutide (SEMA) with that of dulaglutide (DULA) for patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes throughout their lifetime. If necessary, the second aim is to investigate a further price cut for SEMA to provide sound advice for government drug price adjustments....
Influence of Ageism on Physical Activity Prescription for Prediabetes Management.
Published in Journal of aging and physical activity
This study used a randomized online survey design to examine the potential influence of ageism on physical activity (PA) prescription for hypothetical patients with prediabetes of different chronological ages. Participants included 356 kinesiology students who were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. Each condition presented a clinical cas...
Oxidative stress-mediated beta cell death and dysfunction as a target for diabetes management
Published in Frontiers in Endocrinology
The biggest drawback of a current diabetes therapy is the treatment of the consequences not the cause of the disease. Regardless of the diabetes type, preservation and recovery of functional pancreatic beta cells stands as the biggest challenge in the treatment of diabetes. Free radicals and oxidative stress are among the major mediators of autoimm...
Modest association between health literacy and risk for peripheral vascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Objective Health literacy plays a crucial role in managing chronic health conditions. Previous studies have revealed the positive relationship between health literacy and diabetes knowledge but few studies have focused on peripheral vascular disease (PVD) in diabetes in relation to health literacy in diabetes management. This study investigated the...
Diabetes nurse practitioners in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges, insights, and suggestions for improveme...
Published in Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
The study examined the role of diabetes nurse practitioners (DiNPs) and their contribution to the quality of care of individuals with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we examined the benefits and barriers of using telemedicine for managing diabetes. A descriptive qualitative research using content analysis of interviews. Partici...
Community Health Worker-Led mHealth-Enabled Diabetes Self-management Education and Support Intervention in Rural Latino ...
Published in JMIR diabetes
Latinos living in rural South Texas have a higher prevalence of diabetes, but their access to diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) is limited. We aimed to test the feasibility of a community health worker-led, mobile health (mHealth)-based DSMES intervention to reduce disparities in accessing DSMES in underserved rural Latino resi...
