Improved A1C and Lipid Profile in Patients Referred to Diabetes Education Programs in a Wide Health Care Network: A Retrospective Study.
Female; Male; Aged; Body Mass Index; Analysis of Variance; Primary Health Care; Confidence Intervals; Diabetes Mellitus; Blood Pressure; Human; P-Value; Outcome Assessment; Middle Age; Retrospective Design; Two-Tailed Test; Course Content; Paired T-Tests; Lipoproteins; McNemar's Test; Diabetes Education; Creatinine; Glomerular Filtration Rate; Multivariate Analysis of Variance; Hemoglobin A; Glycosylated; Cholesterol – Blood; Triglycerides – Blood; Type 2 – Drug Therapy; HDL Cholesterol – Blood; LDL Cholesterol – Blood; Type 2 – Therapy
Liu Louisa; Min Jie Lee; Brateanu Andrei
Diabetes Spectrum
2014
2014
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.2337/diaspect.27.4.297" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.2337/diaspect.27.4.297</a>
Do elder emergency department patients and their informants agree about the elder's functioning?
Female; Male; Aged; Analysis of Variance; Self Report; Confidence Intervals; Human; Convenience Sample; Questionnaires; Cross Sectional Studies; Descriptive Statistics; Two-Tailed Test; T-Tests; Geriatric Functional Assessment; Significant Other; Emergency Service – Utilization – In Old Age
OBJECTIVE: To compare elder patients' and their informants' ratings of the elder's physical and mental function measured by a standard instrument, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 12 (SF-12). METHODS: This was a randomized, cross-sectional study conducted at a university-affiliated community teaching hospital emergency department (census 65,000/year). Patients \textgreater69 years old, arriving on weekdays between 10 AM and 7 PM, able to engage in English conversation, and consenting to participate were eligible. Patients too ill to participate were excluded. Informants were people who accompanied and knew the patient. Elder patients were randomized 1:1 to receive an interview or questionnaire version of the SF-12. The questionnaire was read to people unable to read. Two trained medical students administered the instrument. The SF-12 algorithm was used to calculate physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) component scores. Oral and written versions were compared using analysis of variance. The PCS and MCS scores between patient-informant pairs were compared with a matched t-test. Alpha was 0.05. RESULTS: One hundred six patients and 55 informants were enrolled. The patients' average (+/-SD) age was 77 +/- 5 years; 59 (56%; 95% CI = 46% to 65%) were women. There was no significant difference for mode of administration in PCS (p = 0.53) or MCS (p = 0.14) scores. Patients rated themselves higher on physical function than did their proxies. There was a 4.1 (95% CI = 99 to 7.2) point difference between patients' and their proxies' physical component scores (p = 0.01). Scores on the mental component were quite similar. The mean difference between patients and proxies was 0.49 (95% CI = 3.17 to 4.16). The half point higher rating by patients was not statistically significant (p = 0.79). CONCLUSIONS: Elders' self-ratings of physical function were higher than those of proxies who knew them. There was no difference in mental function ratings between patients and their proxies. Switching from informants' to patients' reports in evaluating elders' physical function in longitudinal studies may introduce error.
Gerson L W; Blanda M; Dhingra P; Davis J M; Diaz S R
Academic Emergency Medicine
2001
2001-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb00191.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb00191.x</a>
Onset of exercise increases lumbar sympathetic nerve activity in rats.
Rats; Exercise; Heart Rate; Lumbar Vertebrae; Funding Source; Data Analysis Software; Fisher's Exact Test; One-Way Analysis of Variance; Two-Tailed Test; Paired T-Tests; Animal Studies; Spinal Nerves; Sympathetic Nervous System – Physiology
DiCarlo S E; Chen C; Collins H L
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
1996
1996-06
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199606000-00006" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/00005768-199606000-00006</a>