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Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare
No full textAn innovative journal that advances our understanding of diabetes and its treatment in clinical settings and the community. It explores therapies, nutrition, complications and self-management, ultimately to improve quality of treatment for patients
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Couples living with type 1 diabetes: an integrative review of the impacts on health and wellbeing
No full textImpacts of type 1 diabetes and relationship factors on health and wellbeing of both persons with diabetes (PWD) and partners (T1D partners) have not been investigated. Integrative review methods evaluated the evidence. From 323 titles we included 24 studies involving 16,083 PWD and 1,020 T1D partners. Studies were quantitative (n=13), qualitative (n=9) and mixed methods (n=2). Maintaining resilient, good quality, intimate relationships optimises physical and psychological outcomes for PWD. Partners experience disturbed sleep and whilst general psychological health is maintained, distress surrounding hypoglycemia is overwhelming for over a third of partners. Nurturing quality relationships could reap significant health benefits
A multi-state analysis of disease trajectories and mental health transitions in patients with type 2 diabetes: A population-based retrospective cohort study utilizing health administrative data
Full text linkAims: To investigate the risk of major depression and dementia in patients with type 2 diabetes, including dementia resulting from depression, and their impact on diabetes-related complications and mortality. Methods: We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study including 11,441 incident cases of diabetes in 2015-2017, with follow-up until 2022. A multi-state survival analysis was performed on a seven-state model with 15 transitions to capture disease progression and onset of mental disorders. Results: Eight-year probabilities of depression, dementia, diabetes-related complications, and death were 9.7% (95% CI 8.7-10.7), 0.9% (95% CI 0.5-1.3), 10.4% (95% CI 9.5-11.4), and 14.8% (95% CI 13.9-15.7), respectively. Depression increased the risk of dementia up to 3.7% (95% CI 2.0-5.4), and up to 10.3% (95% CI 0.3-20.4) if coupled with diabetes complications. Eight-year mortality was 37.5% (95% CI 33.1-42.0) after depression, 74.1% (95% CI 63.7-84.5) after depression plus complications, 76.4% (95% CI 68.8-83.9) after dementia, and 98.6% (95% CI 96.1-100.0) after dementia plus complications. Conclusions: The interconnections observed across depression, dementia, complications, and mortality underscore the necessity for comprehensive and integrated approaches in managing diabetes. Early screening for depression, followed by timely and targeted interventions, may mitigate the risk of dementia and improve diabetes prognosis
Age of type 2 diabetes onset as a risk factor for dementia: A 13-year retrospective cohort study
Full text linkAims: To examine whether age at type 2 diabetes onset is an independent predictor of dementia risk. Methods: Retrospective cohort drawn from healthcare administrative records of all inhabitants within Romagna's catchment area, Italy, with an estimated onset of type 2 diabetes in 2008–2017 and aged ≥ 55, with follow-up until 2020. Time to dementia or censoring was estimated with the Kaplan–Meier method, using diabetes onset as the time origin. Age groups were compared with the log-rank test. Multivariable competing-risks analysis was used to assess predictors of dementia. Results: In patients aged ≥ 75 years, dementia-free survival (DFS) declined to below 90 % within five years and linearly decreased to 68.8 % until the end of follow-up. In contrast, DFS for those aged 55–64 years showed a marginal decrease, reaching 97.4 % after 13 years. Competing-risks regression showed that individuals aged ≥ 75 and 65–74 had a significantly higher risk of dementia compared to those aged 55–64 years. Having more comorbidities at diabetes onset and initial treatment with ≥ 2 antidiabetics were clinical predictors. Conclusions: Later age at onset of diabetes is strongly associated with dementia. A better understanding of the diabetes–dementia relationship is needed to inform strategies for promoting specific healthcare pathways
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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