Twenty-year trends in the prescription costs of Type 2 diabetes: Real world data and empirical analysis in Greece.

Aims: To estimate and compare the prescription costs for the management of patients with diabetes over a period of 20 years in Greece, based on real world data.

Methods: The records of outpatients with T2D, monitored at three diabetes centres, were examined in four cross-sections (1998, 2006, 2012, 2018). Prescribed medicines per patient, along with a set of clinical indicators were recorded.

Fever duration during treated urinary tract infections and development of permanent renal lesions.

Objective: To assess the effect of the duration of fever after the initiation of treatment (FAT) of febrile urinary tract infections (UTI) on the development of permanent renal lesions based on dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scintigraphy findings. To evaluate the FAT contribution to permanent renal lesion formation in relation to fever before treatment initiation (FBT), the presence of vesicourinary reflux (VUR), age and severity of infection.

Methods: The inpatient records of 148 children (median age: 2.