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Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus

Vittorio Basevi
- 06 Feb 2011 - 
TLDR
The chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with long-term damage, dys-function, and failure of differentorgans, especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels.
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This article is published in Diabetes Care.The article was published on 2011-02-06 and is currently open access. It has received 13077 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prediabetes & Impaired fasting glucose.

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Maternal age and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis of over 120 million participants.

TL;DR: This meta-analysis demonstrates that the risk of GDM increases linearly with successive age-groups, and indicates that from the age of 25, Asian women had a significantly higher risk of developing GDM than Europid women.
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Microalbuminuria in nondiabetic patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: association with liver fibrosis.

TL;DR: The results indicate the presence of a significant association between the severity of insulin resistance and microalbuminuria in patients with NAFLD, and suggest that micro Albuminuria may identify NA FLD patients with higher fibrosis scores.
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Insulin therapy and dietary adjustments to normalize glycemia and prevent nocturnal hypoglycemia after evening exercise in type 1 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial

TL;DR: Reducing basal insulin dose with reduced prandial bolus insulin and LGI carbohydrate feeding provides protection from hypoglycemia during and for 24 h following evening exercise, and is not associated with hyperglycemia, or adverse metabolic disturbances.
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Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared a lifestyle intervention with metformin to prevent or delay the development of Type 2 diabetes in nondiabetic individuals. And they found that the lifestyle intervention was significantly more effective than the medication.
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International association of diabetes and pregnancy study groups recommendations on the diagnosis and classification of hyperglycemia in pregnancy.

TL;DR: The Brazilian study provided evidence that adverse perinatal outcomes are associated with levels of maternal glycemia below those diagnostic of GDM by American Diabetes Association or World Health Organization criteria, however, the results were potentially confounded by the treatment of G DM.
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Follow-up report on the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.

TL;DR: The International Expert Committee was convened to reexamine the classification and diagnostic criteria of diabetes, which were based on the 1979 publication of the National Diabetes Data Group and subsequent WHO study group and adopted several changes to the diagnostic criteria for diabetes and for lesser degrees of impaired glucose regulation (IFG/IGT).
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Effect of treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus on pregnancy outcomes

TL;DR: Treatment of gestational diabetes reduces serious perinatal morbidity and may also improve the woman's health-related quality of life.
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