Specialist-led diabetes registries and predictors of poor glycemic control in type 2 diabetes: Insights into the functionally refractory patient from the LMC Diabetes Registry database

Journal of Diabetes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 76-85

  Aronson, Ronnie ^a   Orzech, Naomi ^a   Ye, Chenglin ^c   Goldenberg, Ronald ^a   Brown, Vivien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Database; Diabetes; Refractory; Registry; Specialist

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; DIABETES EDUCATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ONSET AGE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; HYPOLIPIDEMIC AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953923932     PISSN: 17530393     EISSN: 17530407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-0407.12257     Document Type: Article

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