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Diabetes Care in Community Pharmacy - Focus on Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-09-24)Diabetes is a growing concern worldwide. Ideal management of the disease requires extensive self-care and broad follow-up by health care professionals. Considerable research has been done on involving the pharmacist in the ... -
Diabetes in care homes : Special emphasis on medicines and blood glucose measurements
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-09-20)Diabetes mellitus (DM) is prevalent among older adults and leads to disability, frailty, and dependency. In care homes, multimorbidity and polypharmacy may further complicate the management of DM and increase the risk of ... -
Diabetes knowledge in nursing homes and home-based care services: a validation study of the Michigan Diabetes Knowledge Test adapted for use among nursing personnel
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-29)Background: Providing high-quality diabetes care in nursing homes and home-based care facilities requires suitable instruments to evaluate the level of diabetes knowledge among the health-care providers. Thus, the aim of ... -
Diabetes mellitus impact on fetal liver circulation, and new diagnostic options
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)While biometry and Doppler have proved useful in the management of fetal growth restriction, the same battery has been of less help in diabetic pregnancies. It is not surprising since the underlying pathophysiology is ... -
Diabetes mellitus type 2; The incretin effect and interaction with the autonomic nervous system
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-09-22)Bakgrunn: Inkretineffekten er kroppens evne til økt insulinsekresjon når glukose inntas peroralt sammenliknet med administrert intravenøst, utløst av spesifikke hormoner fra tarmen. En redusert inkretineffekt leder til ... -
Diabetes prevalence among older people receiving care at home: associations with symptoms, health status and psychological well-being
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)Aims: To determine the prevalence of diabetes among older people receiving care at home, and to explore differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, symptoms, health status, quality of life and psychological ... -
Diabetes related risk factors did not explain the increased risk for urinary incontinence among women with diabetes. The Norwegian HUNT/EPINCONT study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-09-10)Background: Previous studies have shown an association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and urinary incontinence (UI) in women, especially severe UI. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether diabetes related ... -
Diabetes risk and provision of diabetes prevention activities in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative, individual-level survey data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background The global burden of diabetes is rising rapidly, yet there is little evidence on individual-level diabetes prevention activities undertaken by health systems in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). ... -
Diabetes risk assessments and HbA1c-measurements in community pharmacies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives Due to a lack of clear symptoms, type 2 diabetes (T2D) can remain undetected for many years. The aim of the study was to explore if Norwegian community pharmacies could identify individuals with a high risk ... -
Diabetic diarrhoea: a study on gastrointestinal motility, pH levels and autonomic function
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Chronic diarrhoea is a common, but poorly investigated diabetes complication. Autonomic neuropathy is a leading pathophysiological theory founded on old, small studies. Studies of gastrointestinal motility and ... -
Diabetic foot ulcers - predictors of healing time and aspects of telemedicine
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-16)Background: A diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a feared complication of diabetes. Both duration and severity of ulcer before start of treatment in specialist health care are factors that can effect healing time for patient ... -
Diabetic gastroenteropathy examined with wireless motility capsule
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-03-11)Background Diabetic gastroenteropathy may affect all parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Despite being prevalent, knowledge is limited and treatment often generalised and unsatisfactory. To deliver personalised treatment, ... -
Diabetic hyperglycemia reduces Ca2+ permeability of extrasynaptic AMPA receptors in AII amacrine cells
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09)There is increasing evidence that diabetic retinopathy is a primary neuropathological disorder that precedes the microvascular pathology associated with later stages of the disease. Recently, we found evidence for altered ... -
Diabetisk ketoacidose ved bruk av SGLT2-hemmer – en pasientserie
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Bakgrunn: Hemmere av natriumglukose-kotransportør 2 (SGLT2-hemmere) benyttes i økende grad ved diabetes type 2. Resultater fra tidligere studier tyder på en økt forekomst av diabetisk ketoacidose ved bruk av disse ... -
Diagnosing pediatric malaria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Clinical and laboratorial perspectives
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-05-20)Malaria is an extensive global health issue with high morbidity and mortality. Diagnostics of malaria are challenging. Clinically malaria is indistinguishable from various other infectious diseases. Microscopy of blood ... -
Diagnosing Schizophrenia from Activity Records using Hidden Markov Model Parameters
(Chapter, 2021)The diagnosis of Schizophrenia is mainly based on qualitative characteristics. With the usage of portable devices which measure activity of humans, the diagnosis of Schizophrenia can be enriched through quantitative features. ... -
Diagnosing tuberculosis among 609 adolescents (aged 12-18 years) with symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis at the Palamaner diagnostic Centre, South India
(Master thesis, 2012-04-18)Background: Tuberculosis (TB) accounts for 1.7 million deaths, according to the recent WHO report. India alone accounts for one fifth (21%) of all the TB cases globally. Mycobacterial pathogens are classified into Typical ... -
Diagnosis and follow-up of treatment of latent tuberculosis; the utility of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-tube assay in outpatients from a tuberculosis low-endemic country
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-03-08)Background Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) Release Assays (IGRA) are more specific than the tuberculosis skin test (TST) in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI). We present the performance of the QuantiFERON®-TB ... -
Diagnosis and management of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in low-resource settings, a study from Zanzibar, Tanzania
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-01-11)Tuberculosis (TB) is still a major global public health concern. Of the 7 million incident TB cases recognized by the World Health Organization in 2018, 15% were extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases. Diagnosing EPTB ... -
Diagnosis and therapy of myasthenia gravis—the patients’ perspective: a cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The survey aimed to explore patients’ perspectives with myasthenia gravis (MG) toward the diagnosis made and the therapy used to treat MG. The survey was conducted with a quantitative method, using the CAWI technique. A ...