Effect of empowerment theory health education on disease control level and compliance of elderly T2DM.

To study the effect of empowerment theory health education on disease control level and compliance of elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). 200 elderly patients with T2DM admitted to our hospital (January 2017 to December 2019) were included in this study and divided into a control group and an empowerment group by random number method. The control group was given routine health education, while the empowerment group was given empowerment theory health education.

Knockdown of GPRC5B alleviates the high glucose-induced inflammation and extracellular matrix deposition of podocyte through inhibiting NF-κB pathway.

Background: Diabetes is a serious disease that could greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular complications, whereas the underlying pathology of DN is still unknown. GPRC5B is a member of the RAIG subfamily of type 3 (family C) GPCR, and its role in DN is still unclear.

Objective: To unveil the role of GPRC5B in diabetic nephropathy (DN) progression and investigate the potential signaling pathway.