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Diabetes Mellitus in American Indians—Standards for Diagnosis and Management

Abstract: In most American Indian tribes the frequency of diabetes mellitus is much > among the non-Indians, and surveillance of health records has shown that many types of illnesses occur more often in the diabetics than in the nondiabetics. Standards, or guidelines, have been developed for diabetes detection and treatment for purposes of limiting diabetes diagnoses to persons with high probabilities of having the disease and concentrating diabetes case finding among high-risk groups or individuals. The guidelines emphasize that early diagnosis and careful management of diabetic pregnancies can decrease rates of macrosomia, congenital malforamtions, spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, and neonatal death. Diabetes management is based on staging criteria and requires trained paramedical workers in many aspects of management of asymptomatic diabetics, while the physicians concentrate more extensively on diabetes with symptoms and remediable complications.

Management of diabetes mellitus in children

Abstract: In many respects the management of diabetes mellitus in children differs from the management in adults Guidelines for the short- and long-term management of the child with diabetes mellitus, particularly as it relates to clinical presentation, treatment of ketoacidosis, long-term therapy and psychological counseling, are presented The specific aspects of diabetes management that are unique to the child are best met by an increased understanding of the problems by the child and the family and an integrated approach by the physician and allied health personnel