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International Diabetes Federation guideline for management of postmeal glucose : a review of recommendations
No full textDiabetes is a significant and growing concern, with over 246 million people around the world living with the disease and another 308 million with impaired glucose tolerance. Depending on the resources of different nations, intervention has generally focused on optimizing overall glycaemic control as assessed by glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) values. Nevertheless, increasing evidence supports the importance of controlling all three members of the glucose triad, namely HbA1c, FPG and postmeal glucose (PMG) in order to improve outcome in diabetes. As part of its global mission to promote diabetes care and prevention and to find a cure, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) recently developed a guideline that reviews evidence to date on PMG and the development of diabetic complications. Based on an extensive database search of the literature, and guided by a Steering and Development Committee including experts from around the world, the IDF Guideline for Management of Postmeal Glucose offers recommendations for appropriate clinical management of PMG. These recommendations are intended to help clinicians and organizations in developing strategies for effective management of PMG in individuals with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The following review highlights the recommendations of the guideline, the supporting evidence provided and the major conclusions drawn. The full guideline is available for download at www.idf.org
Cost-benefit model of diabetes prevention and care: model construction, assumptions and validation
No full textThis paper describes the structure of the Cost Benefit Model of Diabetes Prevention and Care and lists the data sources used and assumptions embedded in the model. Agnes Walker, Stephen Colagiuri and Michele McLennan validate the model through checks of model outputs against data published by other organisations. They also discuss the sensitivity of model outputs to changes in certain key assumptions
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Cost-Benefit Model System of Chronic Diseases in Australia to Assess and Rank Prevention and Treatment Options
No full textChronic diseases - eg heart disease, cancer, diabetes, mental disorders - affect around 80% of older Australians, are the main causes of disability and premature death, and account for 70% of total health expenditures. Because lifestyle patterns are major risk factors, chronic disease prevention and treatment are not only of medical concern, but also of considerable social, family-level and personal interest. While this makes microsimulation approaches particularly suitable for assessing intervention costs and benefits, such approaches will need to be combined with disease-progression models if health status and treatment choices are also to be simulated. AIMS: Describe methodological and technical proposals for the development of a cost-benefit model-system. METHODS: Several chronic disease progression models are to be linked to an ‘Umbrella’ microsimulation model representing the Australian population. To project 20 years ahead, use of reweighting techniques are proposed for population projections, disease-specific predictions and for health-related projections. The model-system is to account simultaneously for Australians’ demographic, socioeconomic and health-risk-factor characteristics; progression of their health status; the number of chronic diseases (comorbidities) they accumulate over time; health-related expenditures; and changes in quality of life. Standard methods are proposed to estimate costs versus benefits of simulated policy interventions and related quality of life improvements. KEY OUTCOME: Proposal of novel methods for modelling comorbidities - a task rarely attempted, although quality of life is known to decline and health expenditures to increase well above what a linear addition of the effects of individual chronic diseases would predict.Chronic Disease, Comorbidities, Cost-Benefit Model, Australia
An approach to implementing international diabetes guidelines
No full textDiabetes is a common, costly and ever-increasing health problem, with chronic complications that result in a heavy socioeconomic burden for people with the disease, the health care system and society (International Diabetes Foundation, 2007; Ringborg et al, 2009). Chronic complications, the major cause of morbidity, premature mortality and costs of diabetes, can be significantly reduced by control of blood glucose and associated cardiovascular risk factors (Kelly et al, 2009; Ray et al, 2009). The cost of these treatments is within the range of currently accepted preventative interventions (Gæde et al, 2008). Despite the available evidence, prevention strategies have not been widely incorporated into clinical practice and the care received by many people with diabetes is less than optimal worldwide (Chan et al, 2009).Fil: Gagliardino, Juan Jose. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - la Plata. Centro de Endocrinología Experimental y Aplicada. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Cs.médicas. Centro de Endocrinología Experimental y Aplicada; Argentina. Organizacion Mundial de la Salud; ArgentinaFil: Colagiuri, Stephen. University of Sydney; Australi
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
No full textCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather regarding the sale of Bass properties
sj-docx-1-dst-10.1177_19322968211054110 – Supplemental material for Evaluation of a Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor: A Novel and Non-Invasive Wearable Using Bioimpedance Technology
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-dst-10.1177_19322968211054110 for Evaluation of a Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor: A Novel and Non-Invasive Wearable Using Bioimpedance Technology by Farid Sanai, Arshman S. Sahid, Jacqueline Huvanandana, Sandra Spoa, Lachlan H. Boyle, Jonathan Hribar, David Ta-Yuan Wang, Benjamin Kwan, Stephen Colagiuri, Shane J. Cox and Thomas J. Telfer in Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology</p
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather requesting that congress pay W. W. Bass the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for his properties
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