Background: Indonesia is amongst the top 10 countries with the highest prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) at 10.8%. However, the distinguishable features of T2DM in Indonesia remain obscure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndonesia ranks seventh with the highest number of cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). T2DM is associated with major undesirable complications including cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease. Kidneys play a major role in maintaining glucose homeostasis, leading the development of sodium glucose transporter inhibitors (SGLT2i).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetes Metab Syndr Obes
September 2022
Indonesia is struggling with a rapidly growing burden of diabetes due to rapid socioeconomic transition. People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) need appropriate treatment strategies to maintain glycemic control. New modalities with simplicity, such as fixed-ratio combination of basal insulin and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA), further referred to as FRC, have proven to be an effective and practical therapeutic approach that may address this issue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA key issue of Really Significant Genes (RSG) that caused Graves Disease is unresolved. RSGs are considered likely major contributors to genetic risk for a disease. These genes should be strongly linked within families and they could become clinically useful as predictors of disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: We examined 251 boys and 259 young girls of chinese offspring, age of 12 to 18 years old from 5 schools around North Jakarta and West of Jakarta. The variables observed are Body Mass Index, waist circumference, fasting sugar level, fasting HDL-cholesterol, tryglyceride and insulin level (fasting).
Methods: Cross-sectional epidemiology survey.