scholarly journals Impact of Age on Cognitive and Psychological Functioning in Patients with Diabetes

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Susmita Halder ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cognitive Changes ◽  
Patients With Diabetes ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Health Deterioration ◽  
Normal Controls ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic and non-communicable disease which is also termed as “sugar” emerged as one of the leading causes of global health deterioration. It is associated with decreased physiological and psychological functioning. Age is a significant predictor to evolve diabetes mellitus. Cognitive changes due to diabetes and psychosocial distress are prominent among the population and the risk is high with increasing age range. The aim of the present study is to find out any association between age and cognitive and psychological functioning of patients with diabetes. In the present study, age range of the sample was selected as 40–60 years. A total of 60 individuals of both genders were selected; 30 individuals with diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and equal number of normal controls were included. The cognitive functioning was measured by neuropsychological tools and the psychological functioning was measured by Psychological General Well-being Index. The results indicate that in case of diabetes patients, age was found to be mostly significant and negatively correlated with cognitive and psychological functioning in comparison to normal controls. Findings from the present study suggest that age could be a predictor in changed cognitive and psychological functioning of patients with diabetes and increased age showed poorer cognitive and psychological functioning.

scholarly journals Beliefs and practices in diabetes care

Duazary ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Álvarez-Najar ◽  
Mery Luz Valderrama-Sanabria ◽  
Amalia Priscila Peña-Pita
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Life Style Changes ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

Diabetes mellitus is considered a chronic non-communicable disease with high morbidity, presents to its high prevalence, social, family, and economic costs. Interventions aimed at life-style changes are fundamental in managing; due to this, patients must receive education. The aim of the study was to identify the beliefs and practices of the persons with diabetes mellitus, to propose nurse care according to these precepts. This was a descriptive study of systematic literature review, searching for articles in databases, Springer Science, Elsevier, ProQuest, Science Direct, Index, Pubmed, SciELO, Medigraphic, and Medline during 2016 to 2018, published between 2001 and 2018, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. A total of 49 studies were contributing to fulfilling the objective. Within the beliefs for the management of disease, is the use of herbs, some consider as cause "fright"; Others take into account risk factors such as heredity, obesity, poor eating habits. Various beliefs are presented in relation to insulin treatment. Spirituality is emphasized; seeking refuge in God and prayer. Is important to understand the person, from their values, beliefs, customs and feelings. Education is a fundamental tool to control the disease, but health beliefs must be taken into account in order to achieve favorable results.

scholarly journals Gerakan Siaga Masyarakat Anti-Diabetes Mellitus (SIMANIS) Melalui Kartu SIDIA (Skrining Pre-Diabetes) di Kabupaten Semarang

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Lukman Fauzi ◽  
R.R. Sri Ratna Rahayu ◽  
Lindra Anggorowati ◽  
Hendri Hariyanto ◽  
Trinita Septi Mentari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Knowledge Score ◽  
Case Finding ◽  
Attitude Score ◽  
Active Case Finding ◽  
Active Case ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a non-communicable disease that contributes to the cause of death. Based on the analysis of the situation in Kawengen Village, Semarang Regency, there were several problems related to the incidence of DM, including the Non-Communicable Disease Integrated Guidance Post Program (Posbindu PTM), which was not running optimally. Based on these problems, it is necessary to form a movement called the Anti-Diabetes Mellitus Community Alert Movement (SIMANIS). Active case finding and detection of pre-DM cases aim to capture people who already have pre-DM symptoms, but they do not know. Furthermore, if caught, they can be followed up so that they are willing to go to the health service unit before complications occur. The implementation of this community service activity is carried out in four stages, namely the formation of SIMANIS cadres, education on prevention and control of DM to SIMANIS cadres and the community, ToT on how to fill in and use the SIDIA Card (pre-diabetes screening) to SIMANIS cadres, and use of the SIDIA Card for early detection active case finding pre-DM. There was an increase in the pre-post education knowledge score from 7.59 + 1.5 to 8.93 + 0.9 and an increase in the pre-post education attitude score from 7.96 + 1.22 to 9.07 + 0.78. SIMANIS through the use of the SIDIA Card can be used to increase public awareness in prevention, early detection, and case finding of DM.

scholarly journals Planetary Health: A New Reality

Challenges ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Salk
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Disease Rates ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

The grand challenges of our time—climate change, biodiversity losses, and global non-communicable disease rates—underscore that humanity and the planet are in crisis. Planetary health provides a unifying concept wherein efforts toward remediation and survival can be concentrated. Evidence derived from the animal kingdom and from human demography suggest that there is cause for optimism in planetary health. With proper navigation, a transition toward a new epoch—one of symbiotic flourishing—is possible. Responses to the current challenges can usher in a new reality, one in which the core value is the well-being of all. This paper presents the philosophies and perspectives of renown biophilosopher, Jonas Salk, who—after developing the first effective vaccine to prevent polio, one of the great achievements in public health—expanded his vision beyond the prevention of individual diseases to that of addressing the basic problems of humankind. This vision is very much in line with our current understanding of and approach to planetary health. In response to changing conditions, planetary limits, and evolutionary pressure, new values, new communities, and new modes of interacting will likely emerge and be integrated with developments in science, technology, economics, the arts, and international relations, resulting in our survival and enhanced health and well-being.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic during the Time of the Diabetes Pandemic: Likely Fraternal Twins?

Pathogens ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley A. Cole ◽  
Hugo A. Laviada-Molina ◽  
Jeannette M. Serres-Perales ◽  
Ernesto Rodriguez-Ayala ◽  
Raul A. Bastarrachea
Keyword(s):  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Insulin Resistance Syndrome ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Extreme Caution ◽  
Patients With Diabetes ◽  
Altered Immune Response ◽  
Non Communicable Disease ◽  
Increased Susceptibility

An altered immune response to pathogens has been suggested to explain increased susceptibility to infectious diseases in patients with diabetes. Recent evidence has documented several immunometabolic pathways in patients with diabetes directly related to the COVID-19 infection. This also seems to be the case for prediabetic subjects with proinflammatory insulin resistance syndrome accompanied with prothrombotic hyperinsulinemic and dysglycemic states. Patients with frank hyperglycemia, dysglycemia and/or hyperinsulinemia develop systemic immunometabolic inflammation with higher levels of circulating cytokines. This deleterious scenario has been proposed as the underlying mechanism enhancing a cytokine storm-like hyperinflammatory state in diabetics infected with severe COVID-19 triggering multi-organ failure. Compared with moderately affected COVID-19 patients, diabetes was found to be highly prevalent among severely affected patients suggesting that this non-communicable disease should be considered as a risk factor for adverse outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic mirrors with the diabetes pandemic in many pathobiological aspects. Our interest is to emphasize the ties between the immunoinflammatory mechanisms that underlie the morbidity and lethality when COVID-19 meets diabetes. This review brings attention to two pathologies of highly complex, multifactorial, developmental and environmentally dependent manifestations of critical importance to human survival. Extreme caution should be taken with diabetics with suspected symptoms of COVID-19 infection.

scholarly journals Gestational Diabetes Mellitus—Innovative Approach to Prediction, Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Future NCD—Mother and Offspring

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. David McIntyre ◽  
Anil Kapur ◽  
Hema Divakar ◽  
Moshe Hod
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Gestational Diabetes ◽  
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Medical Complication ◽  
Diagnostic Approaches ◽  
Non Communicable Disease ◽  
Subsequent Risk

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is the commonest medical complication of pregnancy. The association of GDM with immediate pregnancy complications including excess fetal growth and adiposity with subsequent risk of birth trauma and with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is well recognized. However, the associations with wide ranges of longer-term health outcomes for mother and baby, including the lifetime risks of obesity, pre-diabetes, and diabetes and cardiovascular disease have received less attention and few health systems address these important issues in a systematic way. This article reviews historical and recent data regarding prediction of GDM using demographic, clinical, and biochemical parameters. We evaluate current and potential future diagnostic approaches designed to most effectively identify GDM and extend this analysis into a critical evaluation of lifestyle and nutritional/pharmacologic interventions designed to prevent the development of GDM. The general approach to management of GDM during pregnancy is then discussed and the major final focus of the article revolves around the importance of a GDM diagnosis as a future marker of the risk of non-communicable disease (NCD), in particular pre-diabetes, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, both in mother and offspring.

scholarly journals Waist-to-height ratio is a better discriminator of cardiovascular disease than other anthropometric indicators in Kurdish adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahya Pasdar ◽  
Shima Moradi ◽  
Jalal Moludi ◽  
Somaiyeh Saiedi ◽  
Mehdi Moradinazar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cardiac Events ◽  
Height Ratio ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Adult Participants ◽  
Waist To Height Ratio ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

Abstract It has been suggested that abdominal obesity might be a better cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) discriminator than overall obesity. The most appropriate obesity measures for estimating CVD events in Kurdish populations have not been well-recognized. The objective of the present study was, therefore, to determine the cutoff points of BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist to height ratio (WHtR) as the diagnostic cut-offs to discriminate the prevalent cardiovascular diseases. The data collected from Ravansar Non-Communicable Disease (RaNCD) cohort, the first Kurdish population-based study, was analyzed. The information related to BMI, WC, WHR and WHtR of 10,065 adult participants in the age range of 35–65 was analyzed in this study. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses were conducted to evaluate the optimum cut-off values and to predict the incidence of cardiac events. The results showed that WHtR had the largest areas under the ROC curve for cardiac events in both male and female participants, and this was followed by WHR, WC, and BMI. The optimal cut-off values for determining the cardiac events in the Kurdish population were BMI = 27.02 kg/m2 for men and BMI = 27.60 kg/m2 for women, WC = 96.05 cm in men and 99.5 cm for women, WHRs = 0.96 in both sexes, and WHtR = 0.56 for men and 0.65 for women. The current study, therefore, showed that WHtR might serve as a better index of prevalent cardiac event than BMI, WHR and WC.

Ageing and health in the Arab region: Challenges, opportunities and the way forward

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abla Mehio Sibai ◽  
Aline Semaan ◽  
Jiana Tabbara ◽  
Anthony Rizk
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

Abstract In many countries of the Arab region, the demographic transition is already underway with a decrease in fertility and mortality and a rise in the proportion of older adults. Longer life expectancies and higher burden of non-communicable disease co-morbidities bring new health and social concerns to families, societies and governments. In a number of countries in the Arab region, this is compounded with political turmoil, forced displacement, dynamic migration flows and economic and social instability that deplete family cohesion and exhaust societal resources. Such challenges require systematic changes to healthcare and social services delivery. Amidst a number of strategies for interventions that aim at maximizing health and well-being in old age, we focus in this paper on three fundamental approaches that are largely lacking in the Arab region: an integrated and holistic model of healthcare, policies and programmes that incentivize ageing in place and homecare, and knowledge production addressing local concerns and priorities.

scholarly journals RESOURCES TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERIODONTAL TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 702-707
Author(s):  
Galyna F. Biloklytska ◽  
Svitlana Yu. Viala
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Periodontal Disease ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Periodontal Diseases ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Type I ◽  
Patients With Diabetes ◽  
Local Risk

The aim: Is to characterize the «Medico-sociological map» developed by us to identify systemic and local risk factors for periodontal disease in patients with type I and II diabetes mellitus as a resource to improve the treatment of generalized periodontitis. Materials and methods: We have developed a Medic-sociological map to identify systemic and local risk factors for periodontal disease in patients with type I and type II diabetes mellitus. Methods of accumulation of primary dental and endocrinological information, review and analytical methods. Statistical methods for comparing empirical data and their generalization. Results: Thanks to the «Medico-sociological map» developed by us, systemic and local risk factors for the development of periodontal tissue diseases in patients with type I and II diabetes mellitus have been identified. Factors for improving the well-being of patients in the treatment of periodontal diseases have been comprehensively studied. Patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus have been shown to give up healthy habits (cigarette smoking) and lead a healthy lifestyle and reduce the health risks that can be caused by generalized periodontitis in combination with diabetes mellitus. Conclusions: It has been demonstrated that resources to improve the effectiveness of periodontitis treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus include not only cooperation with endocrinologists, but also our «Medico-sociological map» to identify systemic and local risk factors for periodontal disease in patients with type I and II diabetes mellitus.

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