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Recommendations will change in time as new data becomes available and consensus and views on emphasis differ. Any recommendations require careful interpretation and communication for the maximum benefit of those individuals with diabetes. The biggest change in emphasis of the
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Testa and Simonson, attempting to overcome the uncontrolled nature of earlier studies, conducted a randomised, controlled, double-blind study of the short-term impact of glycaemic control upon HRQL in patients with type 2 diabetes. They concluded that treatment, and subsequent good
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Health-related quality of life (HRQL) HRQL refers to patients’ subjective accounts of functioning and/or overall well-being in relation to health status, and encompasses emotional and physical functioning. While clinical medicine usually gauges the severity of illness and success/failure of treatment
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Several gastrointestinal symptoms have been specifically related to a deranged HRQL. Patients with constipation have lower general HRQL scores than healthy controls, as have patients with heartburn. Appropriate treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease decreased heartburn and in turn increased HRQL
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As part of the Medical Outcomes Study, that determined the impact of nine different chronic illnesses upon HRQL, Stewart et al. used the Short Form (SF-20) of the General Health Survey to evaluate HRQL ratings in 9385 patients, 844 of
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1. Katz LA, Spiro HM. Gastrointestinal manifestations of diabetes. N Engl J Med 1966; 275: 1350 – 61. 2. Goyal RK, Spiro HM. Gastrointestinal manifestations of diabetes mellitus. Med Clin N Am 1971; 55: 1031 – 44. 3. Taub S,
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Here only a brief overview of factors that may alter or bias any association between gastrointestinal symptoms and diabetes will be discussed. Disordered motor function In patients with long-standing type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the prevalence of delayed gastric
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Traditionally, gastrointestinal symptoms have been attributed to disordered motor function resulting from autonomic (vagal) neuropathy. More recently, impaired sensory function has been implicated as a trigger for gastrointestinal symptoms in dyspeptic patients. However, the predictive value of these abnormalities for
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Population-based studies of gastrointestinal symptoms in diabetic patients have been relatively few and the results conflicting. To date, a total of nine population-based studies have been undertaken evaluating gastrointestinal symptoms in subjects with diabetes mellitus. Dyck et al. studied 102
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The early literature emphasised the high prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with diabetes complicated by neuropathy. More than six decades ago, Rundles reported that ‘constipation, chronic diarrhoea, anorexia and nausea often accompany the development of diabetic neuropathy’. He studied
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Community studies suggest that in the general population there is a considerable turnover of individuals reporting gastrointestinal symptoms. Moreover, longitudinal studies in the USA and Sweden, applying a postal questionnaire on two separate occasions, have demonstrated that the number of
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Prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms in diabetes mellitus Several studies have aimed to evaluate the frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with non-insulin-dependent and insulin-dependent diabetes, but at present no uniform picture can be drawn from these results. An enormous range
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