Awareness of the risk factors and interventions for dementia among outpatients with diabetes.

Aims/introduction: As the prevalence of diabetes increases with age, the number of elderly patients with diabetes in Japan, a super-aged society, continues to increase. We conducted a survey to investigate the extent to which outpatients with diabetes recognize dementia as a complication of diabetes.

Materials And Methods: A questionnaire was distributed among 777 patients with diabetes to investigate their awareness of dementia and its risk factors.

Effects of the N/L-type calcium channel blocker cilnidipine on nephropathy and uric acid metabolism in hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease (J-CIRCLE study).

This study assessed the urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) and uric acid metabolism in 70 hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease in whom urinary ACR had remained ≥30 mg/g under the treatment of the L-type calcium channel blocker amlodipine. Three months after switching to the N/L-type calcium channel blocker cilnidipine, blood pressure (BP) did not change; however, urinary ACR significantly decreased with cilnidipine. Serum uric acid levels showed no significant change.