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About 500,000 people suffer from diabetes in Finland, a number which is predicted to increase within the next decades. At the moment, diabetes can neither be prevented nor cured. Diabetes is associated with microvascular (kidney, eye and peripheral nerves) and macrovascular complications (coronary heart disease, stroke). These complications affect...
About 500,000 people suffer from diabetes in Finland, a number which is predicted to increase within the next decades. At the moment, diabetes can neither be prevented nor cured. Diabetes is associated with microvascular (kidney, eye and peripheral nerves) and macrovascular complications (coronary heart disease, stroke). These complications affect...
In Finland diabetologists have long been concerned about the level of diabetes care as the incidence of type 1 diabetes and complicated type 2 diabetes is exceeding the capacity of specialist clinics. We compared the outcome of diabetes care in two middle-sized Finnish municipalities with different models of diabetes care organisation in public pri...
Insulin pump therapy utilizes continuous infusion for the basic supply of insulin. As compared with multiple daily injections, pump therapy enables a clearly more precise targeting of the insulin therapy with respect to both time and quantity. This is important for insulin-sensitive patients such as small children, adults susceptible to hypoglycemi...
To study one-year incidence and risk factors of severe hypoglycaemias (SH) in adult drug-treated diabetic patients living in two Finnish communities.
The episodes of SH and their risk factors were identified from local ambulance registers, from the databases of local health care units, and from patient questionnaires.
The target population consiste...
We studied retrospectively the current driving license status in insulin-treated diabetic patients, who had severe hypoglycemia (SH) within an observation period of one year and who lived in two Finnish communities.
The episodes of SH were identified from local ambulance registers, the databases of local health care units and from patient questionn...
A case of anomalous retrocaval right common iliac artery in a patient with an abdominal aortic aneurysm is presented. In addition to being retrocaval the artery also made a wide loop deep in behind the fibres of the psoas muscle, becoming visible again in the minor pelvis. The incidence of venous and arterial anomalies is briefly discussed, and a s...
