J Public Health Manag Pract
November 2021
Developing substance use (SU) skills in medical training remains a challenge. Residents in teaching hospitals bear a large burden in managing SU sequelae and often lack support. Preventive and addiction medicine faculty defined broadly applicable core knowledge and skills for residents across specialties in a tertiary care center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aims of this study were to assess the frequency and determinants of (1) treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) and (2) progression to proteinuria in the presence of ACE-I treatment in patients with type 1 diabetes and microalbuminuria. A clinic-based cohort study of patients with type 1 diabetes was begun in 1991. The patients who were included in this study (n = 373) are the cohort members who received a diagnosis of microalbuminuria during a 2-yr baseline observation and were followed for 10 yr with frequent assessments of urinary albumin excretion and biennial examinations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to establish the time of initiation and the determinants of renal function decline in type 1 diabetes. Until now, such decline has been assumed to be a late-occurring event associated with proteinuria. A total of 267 patients with normoalbuminuria and 301 patients with microalbuminuria were followed for 8 to 12 yr.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In the present study, we aimed to determine the frequency of a significant reduction in urinary albumin excretion and factors affecting such reduction in patients with type 1 diabetes and microalbuminuria.
Methods: The study included 386 patients with persistent microalbuminuria, indicated by repeated measurements of urinary albumin excretion (estimated on the basis of albumin-to-creatinine ratios) in the range of 30 to 299 microg per minute during an initial two-year evaluation period. Subsequent measurements during the next six years were grouped into two-year periods, averaged, and analyzed for regression of microalbuminuria, which was defined as a 50 percent reduction in urinary albumin excretion from one two-year period to the next.