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Background Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease impose substantial clinical and economic burdens for seniors (age 65 and above) and the Medicare program. Intensive Behavioral Counseling (IBC) interventions like the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP), have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing excess body weight and lowering or delaying morbidity onset.

OBJECTIVE -To develop and validate a prediction rule for identifying diabetic patients at high short-term risk of complications using automated data in a large managed care organization. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-Retrospective cohort analyses were performed in 57,722 diabetic members of Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, aged ≥19 years.

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Rev Clin Esp (Barc). 2013 Nov;213(8):370-6. doi: 10.1016/j.rce.2013.02.015. Epub 2013 May 14. Multicenter Study; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Almost 75% of older children in England and Wales with diabetes are not getting key health checks, a study suggests. Data from 27,682 children and young people showed 25.4% of those aged 12 and older had all seven recommended annual checks, such as eye screenings.

La celebración en Madrid de la VIII edición del Congreso Nacional de Atención Sanitaria al Paciente Crónico ha contado con la participación de Emminens, compañía del laboratorio farmacéutico Roche Diabetes Care Spain, que indicó que la gestión integral del paciente diabético "puede disminuir hasta un 50 por ciento los costes indirectos de la enfermedad".