Patients with type 2 diabetes and surgical foot wounds: Overtrust in primary care physicians, isolation, and difficulties contemplating the future.

Aims: In Europe, 27 % of patients with a podiatric complication of diabetes are referred to a specialized structure for surgery after more than 3 months' disease progression. Our study aimed to analyze access to healthcare and future self-projection in patients with severe diabetic foot conditions.

Methods: We performed a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews in patients hospitalized with diabetic foot conditions requiring surgical treatment.

BedBiopsy: Diagnostic performance of bedside ultrasound-guided bone biopsies for the management of diabetic foot infection.

Objective: We aimed to assess the feasibility and diagnostic performance of ultrasound-guided bone biopsies at the bedside of diabetic patients admitted for suspected foot osteitis not requiring surgery.

Research Design And Methods: In this retrospective monocentric study, we compared the performance of ultrasound-guided (n = 29 consecutive patients, Dec.2020-Oct.

Taguchi method for optimization of Cr(VI) removal, isotherm, kinetic and thermodynamic studies.

In this study, Taguchi optimization method was applied to determine the optimum operating conditions for batch adsorption of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution. Initial pH of solution, adsorbent dose, initial hexavalent chromium concentration, contact time and adsorbent type were selected as the variables, and the removal efficiency of Cr(VI) was chosen for the designated response. L(3) orthogonal array, signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio and analysis of variance statistical procedures were applied to identify the effect of each operating parameter on the removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution.

Impact of experiencing multiple vulnerabilities on fetal growth and complications in women with hyperglycemia in pregnancy.

Background: In women with hyperglycemia in pregnancy living in France, psychosocial deprivation is associated with both earlier and greater exposure to the condition, as well as poorer maternofetal prognosis. We explored the impact of this and two other socioeconomic vulnerability indicators-food insecurity and poor language proficiency-on adherence to prenatal care and maternal and fetal outcomes.

Methods: In a socially deprived suburb of Paris, we selected women who delivered between 01/01/2012 and 31/12/2018 and received care (nurse, dietician, diabetologist evaluation, advice, regular follow-up to adjust insulin doses if requested) for hyperglycemia in pregnancy.

Glycemic status during pregnancy according to fasting and post-load glucose values: The association with adverse pregnancy outcomes. An observational study.

Aim: Prognosis of treated hyperglycemia in pregnancy (HIP) may differ according to whether diagnosis following an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is based on high fasting and/or high post-load glucose values.

Methods: From a multiethnic prospective study, we included 8,339 women screened for HIP after 22 weeks of gestation. We evaluated the risk of large-for-gestational-age (LGA) infant (primary endpoint) and other adverse pregnancy outcomes according to HIP status in four groups defined as follows: no HIP (n = 6,832, reference); isolated fasting HIP (n = 465), isolated post-load HIP (n = 646), and fasting and post-load HIP (n = 396).