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Diabetes is a chronic and invalidating illness, therefore diabetic patients are eligible for home care. In one of the districts of the Veneto region the main data on diabetic patients cared at home were collected, in order to know their main characteristics and problems, and the problems nurses encounter in their daily care. Three meetings were planned with home care nurses, to update their knowledge and render more effective and appropriate their care plans, The main problems are related to a. the lack of a caring project at district level, b...

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality after kidney transplantation. Renal transplant recipients have in fact accelerated atherosclerosis because of prolonged hemodialysis, arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia and other vascular risk factors. Studies concerning carotid and lower limb atherosclerotic changes in renal transplanted patients are at present scant. METHODS: In the present study the prevalence of carotid and iliac-femoro-popliteal atherosclerosis was evaluated by color flow Doppler in 99 patients 64 +/- 41 DS months after renal transplantation...

Previous experiments have put in evidence that the 5-HT injected intraperitoneally in rats elicits remarkable variations of some enzymatic activities of glycolytic pathways and it is an iperglicemic factor as in function of dose that of time. For that the AA. have measured the glycemia in different starting glicemic conditions, to control if the 5-HT effect persists. The results have evidenced the 5-HT effect (20 mg/kg i.p.) there is also in fasting rats as drinking water as a water solution of glucose (20%)...

381 glucose intake normal curves were studied according to the Diabetes Data Group new classification in healthy persons between 10 and 80 years in order to assess the influence of the age upon the normal glucose tolerance. Such an influence, which was evident in all the subjects, turned out to be more important in women with respect to me. In fact, males showed an increase, per decade, of about 1 mg/dl in fasting glycemic levels, of about 6 mg/dl at 60', of 4 mg/dl at 120', while in females there was an increase of about 2 mg/dl in fasting glicemic values, of about 6 mg/dl at 60' and of about 5 mg/dl at 120'...

The increasing number of Diabetic Uremic Patients (DUP) starting the substitutive treatment (ST) constitutes a difficult and often disappointing problem in terms of efforts, clinical results and side-effects. While treatment of these patients by C.A.P.D. is well documented, the adoption of Hemofiltration (HF), has been, up to now scarcely considered. In order to define the potentialities of a HF policy in the treatment of these patients, data from 6 DUP treated with postdilutional HF for a 10.6 months/patient period were collected on a multi-center basis and retrospectively examined...