Executive Function, Adherence, and Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: a Literature Review

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Duke, Danny C ^a   Harris, Michael A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Adolescence; Children; Compliance; Diabetes; Executive function; Glycemic control; Metabolic control; Type 1 diabetes; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DIET; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME MANAGEMENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CARE;

EID: 84930278596     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-014-0532-y     Document Type: Review

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