Background: China has the largest number of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the world. However, owing to insufficient knowledge of self-management in patients with diabetes, blood glucose (BG) control is poor. Most diabetes-related self-management applications fail to bring significant benefits to patients with T2DM because of the low use rate and difficult operation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adherence to lifestyle recommendations remains insufficient in cardiovascular (CV) health management globally. Body constitution, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, is primarily influenced by an individual's internal metabolism and susceptibility to external pathogenic factors. Nevertheless, less is known about whether body constitutions may play a role in the presence of unhealthy lifestyles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with multimorbidity often experience treatment burden as a result of fragmented, specialist-driven healthcare. The 'family doctor team' is an emerging service model in China to address the increasing need for high-quality routine primary care.
Objective: This study aimed to explore the extent to which treatment burden was associated with healthcare needs and patients' experiences.
are commonly found in the eastern Himalayas and south China. In our study, we reported the complete mitogenome and obtain basic genetic information of for the first time. The complete mitochondrial genomes of (16 885bp in length) had 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes (12 and 16) and 2 control regions.
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