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Dietary strategies for adult type 1 diabetes in light of outcome evidence
Individuals who have type 1 diabetes need individualised medical nutrition therapies whose goals are to improve overall health and metabolic outcomes. However, interventions in the field of nutrition are chall...
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Dietary habits and nutritional biomarkers in Italian type 1 diabetes families: evidence of unhealthy diet and combined-vitamin-deficient intakes
Objective: Nutritional status and lifestyle can have profound effects on health. To analyse behaviour patterns in population subgroups of public health importance, we compared lifestyle, dietary intake of energy ...
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40th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Advanced oxidation protein products in plasma: stability during storage and correlation with other clinical characteristics
Proteins are susceptible to free radical damage. We measured advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) in the plasma of 56 hospitalised patients. Concentrations of AOPP were expressed as chloramine-T equival...
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Relation of fetal growth to maternal responses to oral glucose tolerance test throughout gestation
Fetal growth is dependent on transplacental supply of fuels. We aimed to assess the effect of serial changes in maternal glucose tolerance and insulin secretion with advancing pregnancy on maternal-fetal outc...
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35th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Dissociation between albuminuria and insulinaemia in hypertensive and atherosclerotic men
To better understand the links between circulating insulin and albuminuria in essential hypertension, the plasma insulin response to a 75 gram glucose load and albuminuria were evaluated in 53 glucose-tolerant...
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With regard to glycohemoglobin measurement: are we sure that high-performance liquid chromatography currently works in the clinical routine?
The clinical usefulness of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) depends crucially on the accuracy and precision of its assay. When we compared an immunological bench-top analyzer (DCA 2000, Bayer Diagnostici, Milan) to t...
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Erythrocyte Na+/H+ exchange and preclinical abnormalities of the left ventricular diastolic function in normotensive type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients
We assessed the relationship between erythrocyte Na+/H+ antiport activity and myocardial anatomical-functional parameters (by Doppler echocardiography) in normotensive IDDM patients, with and without microalbumi...
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The reliability of urinary albumin assay by immunonephelometry in the clinical practice
Measurement of the urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER) is essential for the early diagnosis and monitoring of diabetic nephropathy; immunonephelometry is a procedure used worldwide for routine screening of ...
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Arterial hypertension and microalbuminuria in IDDM: The Italian Microalbuminuria Study
Arterial hypertension and poor glycaemic control are central to the development of microalbuminuria in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Recent consensus has established sensitive criteria for their ...
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Knowledge on diabetes and performance among health professionals in non-diabetological departments
We tested the level of knowledge on diabetes and professional skills in a group of 60 non-diabetological health care professionals at the Policlinic of Pisa regarding the recognition and treatment of hypoglyca...
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Prevalence of hypertension and microalbuminuria in adult type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients without renal failure in Italy. I. Validation of screening techniques to detect microalbuminuria
The prevalence of microalbuminuria and arterial hypertension among type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients is poorly known in Italy. In the preliminary phase of a large outpatient screening programme, we ...
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Increased urinary albumin excretion aggregates with atherosclerotic risk factors in type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus
Supranormal urinary albumin excretion (microalbuminuria) is an early indicator of microangiopathy, i.e. diabetic nephropathy, and is associated with higher cardiovascular mortality in both type 1 and type 2 di...
