[Analysis of type 2 diabetes disease management: cross-study of a sanitary district].

Aim: We studied type 2 diabetes prevalence in the Sicilian country, and the disease management, trough the analysis of some indicators.

Methods: A cohort of 385 subjects with type 2 diabetes was selected in a sanitary district. Anamnestic, anthropometric, pharmacological data were recorded by a self-controlled software (Gipac-2).

Relationship between site of disease and familial occurrence in Crohn's disease.

Concordance in the extent of disease among the family members of patients with Crohn's disease has not been widely investigated. Furthermore, the relationship between the site of the disease and familial occurrence has never been studied. Our aim was to evaluate the familial occurrence of Crohn's disease in the various sites.

Mortality in patients with Crohn's disease.

Background: No data on mortality for Crohn's disease are available from southern Europe.

Methods: Five hundred and thirty-one patients with Crohn's disease were observed in our unit between 1973 and 1993. In 325 patients the first diagnosis was made in our hospital.