Glycemic control and its associated factors among adult diabetic patients in Southern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a group of common metabolic disorders that share the phenotype of hyperglycemia. Chronic hyperglycemia causes vascular complications, mortality, and life-threatening disabilities in low-income countries including Ethiopia. Glycemic control status in diabetic patients is crucial to maintain the blood glucose level at the optimal level and to reduce the risk of diabetes-related complications and mortality.

Data on the dynamics of landscape structure and fragmentation in Ambo district, central highlands of Ethiopia.

The data presented in this article show changes in land use/land cover and fragmentation of land at a landscape level for a period of 45 years (1973-2018) in Ambo district of the central highlands of Ethiopia. Data generated from satellite images of Multispectral Scanner (MSS), Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) and Operational Land Image (OLI) with path/raw value of 181/54, 169/54 and169/54 for each images respectively were analyzed by Arc GIS 10.1 software using a standard method.