Low hemoglobin, even within the normal range, is associated with diabetic kidney disease.

Aim: To investigate the association between hemoglobin (Hb) levels and incident diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 1,657 patients with diabetes, without DKD at baseline, recruited from six clinics affiliated with Lee's United Clinic in Taiwan. Demographic data and laboratory results were collected and analyzed.

Moderate resistance training reduces intermuscular adipose tissue and risk factors of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease for elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.

Aim: This study aimed to assess the impact of moderate resistance training on intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes and the independent effect of IMAT reduction on metabolic outcomes.

Methods: In this randomized controlled trial, 85 patients with type 2 diabetes were assigned to either the resistance training group (42 participants) or the control group (43 participants) for a 6-month intervention. The primary outcome was changes in IMAT measured by computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging using the interactive decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least squares qualification sequence.

Construction of Risk Prediction Model of Type 2 Diabetic Kidney Disease Based on Deep Learning.

Backgruound: This study aimed to develop a diabetic kidney disease (DKD) prediction model using long short term memory (LSTM) neural network and evaluate its performance using accuracy, precision, recall, and area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

Methods: The study identified DKD risk factors through literature review and physician focus group, and collected 7 years of data from 6,040 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients based on the risk factors. Pytorch was used to build the LSTM neural network, with 70% of the data used for training and the other 30% for testing.

Perioperative Insulin Pump Therapy Decreases Readmission Risk and Improves Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of temporary insulin pump use during hospitalization on glycemia, postoperative complications, and cost/utilization in perioperative patients with diabetes.

Methods: Patients (n=159) with type 2 diabetes and hospitalized for elective surgery were recruited from three hospitals. Subjects were categorized into the insulin pump group and the multiple daily subcutaneous insulin injection group according to their treatment therapy.

A Multisample Path Analysis Including a Novel Psychological Indicator, Attitude Toward Life, After the First Wave of COVID-19.

Introduction: During the COVID-19 outbreak, China applied a unique volunteerism system in which nurses and physicians traveled to the epicenter to care for patients. During the same period, another group, nurse and physician nonvolunteers, stayed at their home hospitals outside of the epicenter and cared for patients without COVID-19. Yet only one Chinese study examined psychological responses comparing these groups.

Current Status of Metabolic Compliance and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in the Zhuang Population in China.

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipid status in Zhuang patients with T2DM and to analyze the correlation between compliance with metabolic monitoring and cardiovascular risk factors.

Methods: A total of 1975 Zhuang patients with T2DM were evaluated in four Class III Grade A hospitals in three prefecture-level cities in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region between January and August 2022. Laboratory indicators, lifestyle, and demographic characteristics were collected.

Correlation Between the Variability of Different Obesity Indices and Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on Populations in Taiwan.

Purpose: To investigate the association of five obesity indices and the variability of these indices with diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in patients with type 2 diabetes and compare the predictive validity of these markers for the risk of DKD in this large longitudinal cohort study.

Patients And Methods: A total of 2659 patients with type 2 diabetes who did not have DKD were enrolled between 2006 and 2019 at Lee's United Clinic in Taiwan. Data were collected for each subject, including demographic data, personal medical history, clinical parameters and calculated Body mass index (BMI), visceral adiposity index (VAI), lipid accumulation product (LAP), body roundness index (BRI) and variability of five obesity indices.

For the Good of the People: an interpretive analysis of Chinese volunteerism in the critical matter of care at the start of the pandemic.

Purpose: China employed a unique volunteerism system where health care providers outside of Hubei Province, the epicentre, travelled to reverse the devastation wrought by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at its global onset. The aim is to study the unique circumstances of Chinese volunteerism in the context of continuing pandemic threats, specifically exploring the experiences of 20 Chinese nurse and physician volunteers fighting COVID-19 during the outbreak.

Methods: Interviews were done through video calling.

External validation of the risk prediction model for early diabetic kidney disease in Taiwan population: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: This study aims to independently and externally validate the Risk Prediction Model for Diabetic Kidney Disease (RPM-DKD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Design: This is a retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Outpatient clinics at Lee's United Clinics, Taiwan, China.

Determination of Key Inflection Points for Maladaptive Responses in US Nurses During the Pandemic: A Network Analysis.

Introduction: During the pandemic, the nursing workforce is experiencing overwhelming workloads that carry a heavy psychological burden. A wide variety of psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been studied in nurses globally, but many are not studied or understudied in US nurses. Theoretical underpinnings of the current study are based on the disaster component of the Middle-Range Theory of Nurses' Psychological Trauma.

Relationship Between Sporadic Renal Cysts and Renal Function Detected by Isotope Renography in Type 2 Diabetes.

Purpose: This study aimed to reveal the relationship between the volume of sporadic renal cysts and renal function in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Materials And Methods: One hundred and seventy-one patients that underwent renal imaging and other routine examinations at the Shanghai Pudong Hospital were included in this study. The Gates' method of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was measured by Tc-DTPA renal dynamic imaging in addition to the eGFR, calculated by the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation (CKD-EPI).

Effect of urinary albumin creatinine ratio on type 2 diabetic retinopathy and is cut-off value for early diabetic retinopathy diagnosis.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of Urinary albumin creatinine ratio (UACR) on diabetic retinopathy (DR) in People with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the cut-off value of UACR for predicting DR using receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC).

Methods: A prospective cohort study of 2490 people with T2D was conducted with follow-up ranging from 3 to 10 years, with a mean follow-up of 7 years. Dilated fundus examination and urine examination were performed annually.

Effects of different blood pressures and their long-term variability on the development of diabetic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Aim: To explore the relationship between long-term variabilities in different blood pressure variables and diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Design: A retrospective study.

Methods: This study included 3050 patients with type 2 diabetes whose metabolic parameters were regularly checked.

The Impact of Systolic Blood Pressure, Pulse Pressure, and Their Variability on Diabetes Retinopathy among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of variations in systolic blood pressure (SBP) and pulse pressure (PP) on diabetic retinopathy (DR) in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: A total of 3275 type 2 diabetes patients without DR at Taiwan Lee's United Clinic from 2002 to 2014 were enrolled in the study. The average age of the patients was 65.

β-Cell function and body mass index are predictors of exercise response in elderly patients with prediabetes.

Aims/introduction: To explore the predicting factors of exercise response (whether the participants converted to diabetes) in elderly patients with prediabetes.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective subgroup analysis of the registered clinical trial with previous publication of the same cohort. A total of 248 participants with prediabetes were randomized to the aerobic training (n = 83) group, resistance training (n = 82) group and control group (n = 83).

Aerobic training reduces pancreatic fat content and improves β-cell function: A randomized controlled trial using IDEAL-IQ magnetic resonance imaging.

Aims: To explore the effects of six months of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on pancreatic fat content and its impact on β-cell function.

Materials And Methods: A total of 106 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were randomized to either a moderate-intensity aerobic training group (three times a week, including 5 min warm-up, 50 min aerobic dancing, and 5 min relaxation, n = 53) or control group (n = 53) with 6-month intervention. The primary endpoint was change in pancreatic fat content.

Effects of aerobic training and resistance training in reducing cardiovascular disease risk for patients with prediabetes: A multi-center randomized controlled trial.

Aims: Aerobic training (AT) and resistance training (RT) can reduce blood glucose and type 2 diabetes risk, and increase muscle mass for prediabetes patients. However, the impact of long-term AT and RT on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of AT and RT on CVD risk reduction in prediabetes patients.

HbA1c variability as an independent predictor of diabetes retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Aims: To evaluate the association of both mean HbA1c and HbA1c variability with DR development in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: Patients with type 2 diabetes who received dilated funduscopic examination annually and who underwent at least 2-year follow-up were included in this longitudinal study. Subjects were excluded if they took less than five HbA1c measurements during the follow-up period.

Annual decline in β-cell function in patients with type 2 diabetes in China.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the annual decline of β-cell function correlated with disease duration in patients with type 2 diabetes in China.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 4792 adults with type 2 diabetes who were recruited from four university hospital diabetes clinics between April 2018 and November 2018. Baseline data were collected from electric medical records.

Correction to: Sex differences in 10-year ischemic cardiovascular disease risk prediction in Chinese patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

After the publication of the original article [1], we were notified that one of the corresponding author's name and her related institution were wrongly spelled.

Effects of Glucose Fluctuation Targeted Intervention on the Prognosis of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes following the First Episode of Cerebral Infarction.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of glucose fluctuation targeted intervention on neurologic function, independent living skills, and quality of life in type 2 diabetes patients following the first episode of cerebral infarction (CI).

Methods: This was a randomized control trial. Following confirmed cerebral infarction, 75 patients with type 2 diabetes were randomized into 2 groups: control group ( = 37) with usual care, focused on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) control, targeting A1c < 7%, and intervention group ( = 37) with usual care, focused on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) control, targeting A1c < 7%, and intervention group (.

Sex differences in 10-year ischemic cardiovascular disease risk prediction in Chinese patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Background: Cardiovascular disease has become a serious public health problem in recent years in China. The aim of the study was to examine sex differences in cardiovascular risk factors and 10-year ischemic cardiovascular disease (ICVD) risk in Chinese patients with prediabetes (PreDM) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Methods: This was a multi-site retrospective case-control study conducted from April-November 2016 using an electronic medical record database, involving 217 PreDM and 900 T2DM patients admitted to endocrinology units in four hospitals in China.

Effect of 12-Month Resistance Training on Changes in Abdominal Adipose Tissue and Metabolic Variables in Patients with Prediabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To examine the effects of resistance training relative to aerobic training on abdominal adipose tissue and metabolic variables in adults with prediabetes.

Methods: 105 participants with prediabetes were randomized into the resistance training group (RT, = 35), aerobic training group (AT, = 35), and control group (CG, = 35). The participants completed supervised 12-month exercise; the control group followed the primary lifestyle without exercise intervention.

Comparing the effects of 6 months aerobic exercise and resistance training on metabolic control and β-cell function in Chinese patients with prediabetes: A multicenter randomized controlled trial.

Background: It is clear that aerobic training (AT) can delay pancreatic exhaustion and slow the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes (T2D), but there is little information regarding the effects of resistance training (RT) in people with prediabetes. This study compared the effectiveness of RT and AT in improving metabolic control and protecting β-cell function in people with prediabetes.

Methods: Chinese subjects (n = 248) with prediabetes were randomized to three groups: AT (n = 83), RT (n = 82) and control (n = 83).