Hypovitaminosis D in internal medicine inpatients.

Some studies have suggested that hypovitaminosis D may be a consequence of protein-calorie malnutrition. This study assessed both the relationship between vitamin D status, malnutrition, calcium and phosphorus metabolism indices and the importance attached by internists to these alterations. There were 239 patients admitted to an internal medicine division who underwent examinations to assess nutritional state, liver and renal function, and bone metabolism.

Mortality within the first 10 years of the disease in type 2 diabetic patients.

Background And Aims: An excess of long-term mortality in type 2 diabetes is mainly due to cardiac diseases, predicted by diabetes-related conditions; less is known about early death from clinical diagnosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate pattern and predictors of mortality after a 4.5 year follow-up in a cohort of type 2 diabetic patients, according to diabetes duration.

Renal damage in patients with Type 2 diabetes: a strong predictor of mortality.

Aims: (i) To compare mortality rates in a cohort of Type 2 diabetic patients with those of the general population; (ii) to assess the prognostic role of pre-existing chronic conditions; (iii) to evaluate the impact of different severity of renal damage on mortality.

Methods: All 3892 patients with Type 2 diabetes attending our Diabetic Clinic during 1995 and alive on 1 January 1996 were identified and followed for 4.5 years.

Patients with type 2 diabetes had higher rates of hospitalization than the general population.

Objective: We describe the rate, causes, and predictors of hospitalization for all patients with type 2 diabetes in a diabetes clinic in Turin, Italy and compare their hospitalization rates with those of the general population.

Study Design And Setting: All patients were recruited and followed up for hospital admissions from January 1996 to June 2000. The role of risk factors was analyzed with a conditional proportional hazard model for repeated events.

Isolated systolic hypertension in a cohort of type 2 diabetic patients.

Background And Aims: Previous studies of the adverse effects of isolated and borderline isolated systolic hypertension excluded or under-represented type 2 diabetic patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and role of isolated and borderline isolated systolic hypertension in a cohort of 3892 type 2 diabetic patients.

Methods And Results: The hypertensive patients were classified as treated (n= 1806; 46.