Psychiatric symptom rate of patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A case control study.

Aims: The aim of the study is comparing the psychiatric symptom in Type1 DM, Type 2 DM and controls.

Methods: The study was designed as case control study and conducted between September 2011 and April 2012 to the Diabetes Clinic. Age, gender and education level matched 70 type 1 diabetics, 68 type 2 diabetics and 70 controls included to the study.

Reference ranges of handgrip strength from 125,462 healthy adults in 21 countries: a prospective urban rural epidemiologic (PURE) study.

Background: The measurement of handgrip strength (HGS) has prognostic value with respect to all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular disease, and is an important part of the evaluation of frailty. Published reference ranges for HGS are mostly derived from Caucasian populations in high-income countries. There is a paucity of information on normative HGS values in non-Caucasian populations from low- or middle-income countries.