4 results match your criteria: "Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology of Diabetes and Chronic Diseases[Affiliation]"

Objective: We evaluated empowerment in T2DM and identified its correlates.

Methods: A sample of individuals self-administered the Diabetes Empowerment Scale-Short Form (DES-SF) and other 9 validated instruments (person-centered outcomes). Correlates of DES-SF were identified through univariate and multivariate analyses.

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Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular risk in women.

Int J Endocrinol

April 2015

Gender Medicine Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

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Objective: Hypoglycemia is common in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). We aimed to update the incidence of severe and symptomatic hypoglycemia and investigate several correlated factors.

Methods: In this multicenter, observational retrospective study, the data of 206 T1DM patients from a sample of 2,229 consecutive patients seen at 18 diabetes clinics were analyzed.

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Objective: A retrospective comparison between Nissen and Dor fundoplication after laparoscopic Heller myotomy for achalasia.

Materials And Methods: From 1998 to 2004 a first group of 48 patients underwent Heller myotomy and Nissen fundoplication for idiopathic achalasia (H+N group). From 2004 to 2010 a second group of 40 patients underwent Heller myotomy followed by Dor fundoplication (H+D group).

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