Effects of the increase in co-payments from 20 to 30 percent on the compliance rate of patients with hypertension or diabetes mellitus in the Employed Health Insurance System [PDF]
, 2005 Objectives: How to contain medical expenditures is a universal problem. The Japanese government has increased patient co-payments to control it. The purpose of this study is to clarify whether the increase in co-payments to 30 percent prevented patients ...
Babazono, Akira +7 more
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Learning the Parameters of Determinantal Point Process Kernels [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are well-suited for modeling repulsion and have proven useful in many applications where diversity is desired. While DPPs have many appealing properties, such as efficient sampling, learning the parameters of a DPP is still considered a difficult problem due to the non-convex nature of the likelihood function.
arxiv
Postprandial Hypotension due to a Lack of Sympathetic Compensation in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus. [PDF]
, 2007 Postprandial hypotension is an important hemodynamic abnormality in diabetes mellitus, but few reports are available on the relationship between autonomic dysfunction and postprandial hypotension.
Katayama, Yusuke +7 more
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Diabetic corneal neuropathy: clinical perspectives
Clinical Ophthalmology, 2018 Diabetic keratopathy is characterized by impaired innervation of the cornea that leads to decreased sensitivity, with resultant difficulties with epithelial wound healing.
G. Bikbova +4 more
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Restless Leg Syndrome and Sleep Quality in Diabetic Patients with and without Neuropathy
Pakistan Journal of Medicine and DentistryBackground: Restless legs syndrome (RLS), is a condition of uneasy feeling with an uncontrollable urge to move legs. This study was conducted to compare the frequencies of restless leg syndrome and sleep quality in diabetic patients with and without ...
Shumaila Parveen +3 more
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Study of relationship between QTC prolongation and cardiac autonomic neuropathy in Diabetes mellitus [PDF]
Perspectives In Medical Research, 2017 Objective: Cardiac Autonomic neuropathy is one of the complications in diabetic patients. This study intends to detect the prevalence of QTc prolongation in diabetic patients as well as its relationship with cardiac autonomic neuropathy.
N Natarajan1 , M S Ramaiyah2
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Teleneurology clinics for polyneuropathy: a pilot study. [PDF]
, 2020 INTRODUCTION:Polyneuropathy (PN) is a common condition with significant morbidity. We developed tele-polyneuropathy (tele-PN) clinics to improve access to neurology and increase guideline-concordant PN care.
Cheng, Eric M +7 more
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Computing Individual Risks based on Family History in Genetic Disease in the Presence of Competing Risks [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 When considering a genetic disease with variable age at onset (ex: diabetes , familial amyloid neuropathy, cancers, etc.), computing the individual risk of the disease based on family history (FH) is of critical interest both for clinicians and patients. Such a risk is very challenging to compute because: 1) the genotype X of the individual of interest
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A Review of Machine Learning Techniques for Applied Eye Fundus and Tongue Digital Image Processing with Diabetes Management System [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Diabetes is a global epidemic and it is increasing at an alarming rate. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) projected that the total number of people with diabetes globally may increase by 48%, from 425 million (year 2017) to 629 million (year 2045).
arxiv
Diabetes Care, 2010 OBJECTIVE To determine the relationships among large, small, and autonomic fiber neurophysiological measures in a cross-sectional study of patients with diabetes.
C. Gibbons, R. Freeman, A. Veves
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