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ABSTRACT: Aims
To assess the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster on daily diabetes practice and to determine the feasibility of controlling type 2 diabetes mellitus in an outpatient department.Methods
We retrospectively reviewed the data on disaster-affected patients with type 2 diabetes who periodically attended outpatient department of Soma Central Hospital. There were 767 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in total. The primary outcome measure was the change in HbA1c.Results
HbA1c levels of 58 patients with periodical hospital visits did not deteriorate after the disasters. Moreover, there observed no significant difference in the mean of HbA1c levels among all age and sex throughout the year. While several changes in diabetes medication usage occurred, DPP4-inhibitor was the only oral diabetic agent that increased in frequency (+60%).Conclusions
Patients with type 2 diabetes who were managed with periodical hospital visits did not show significant deterioration in HbA1c levels.
SUBMITTER: Nishikawa Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422625 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nishikawa Yoshitaka Y Fukuda Yuji Y Tsubokura Masaharu M Kato Shigeaki S Nomura Shuhei S Saito Yasutoshi Y
PloS one 20150506 5
<h4>Aims</h4>To assess the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster on daily diabetes practice and to determine the feasibility of controlling type 2 diabetes mellitus in an outpatient department.<h4>Methods</h4>We retrospectively reviewed the data on disaster-affected patients with type 2 diabetes who periodically attended outpatient department of Soma Central Hospital. There were 767 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in total. The primary outcome measure was the change in HbA1c. ...[more]