Search for dissertations about: "diagnosis of diabetes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 214 swedish dissertations containing the words diagnosis of diabetes.

2. 1. Living with diabetes : a lifelong learning process

   Author : Åsa Kneck; Ingegerd Fagerberg; Berit Lundman; Lars E. Eriksson; Inger Holmström; vårdvetenskap och samhälle Institutionen för neurobiologi Karolinska institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Diabetes; Lifelong illness; Learning process; Transition; Self-management; Triggers; Lifeworld; diabetes;

   Abstract : Living with diabetes, as a lifelong illness, is interlaced with learning and to face continual changes. However, the role of time in this learning process is not yet well understood. The overall aim of the thesis was to gain a deepened understanding of learning to live with diabetes for those recently diagnosed and over a three year period. READ MORE

4. 2. Clinical, Genetic and Metabolic Characterisation of LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults)

   Author : ÅsaLinda Lethagen; diabetes och endokrinologi Genomik; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; metabolic syndrome; insulin sensitivity; insulin secretion; GADabs; glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibodies; Type 2 diabetes; LADA; Type 1 diabetes; IDDM1; IDDM2; Endocrinology; secreting systems; diabetology; Endokrinologi; sekretion; diabetologi;

   Abstract : Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) comprises about 10% of patients initially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes but who are positive for pancreatic islet antibodies, especially to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GADabs). The present studies focused on clinical, genetic and metabolic characterisation of patients with LADA. READ MORE

5. 3. Mechanisms of defective insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes

   Author : Taman Mahdi; Diabetes - öpatofysiologi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; type 2 diabetes; Insulin secretion; TCF7L2; ADRA2A; KCNQ1; SFRP4; interleukin-1B;

   Abstract : Defective insulin secretion from the pancreatic B-cells is a central feature in type 2 diabetes (T2D). There is a strong hereditary component in type T2D, but the underlying pathophysiology remains largely unknown. READ MORE

6. 4. Diabetes Mellitus at the Time for Diagnosis : Studies on Prognostic Factors

   Author : Mats Martinell; Jan Stålhammar; Johan Hallqvist; Mozhgan Dorkhan; Claes-Göran Östenson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; New-onset Diabetes Mellitus; socioeconomic position; epidemiology; diabetes complications; diabetic retinopathy; cellular immunology; diabetes classification; type 2 diabetes; latent autoimmune diabetes in adults LADA ; type 1 diabetes; Allmänmedicin; Family Medicine; Endokrinologi och Diabetologi; Endocrinology and Diabetology;

   Abstract : The aim for this thesis was to identify prognostic factors for chronic diabetes complications that exist at the time of diabetes diagnosis.Low level of education (... READ MORE

7. 5. The Diabetes Incidence Study in Sweden (DISS): Ascertainment, risk factors, and problems with classification

   Author : Bengt Littorin; Malmö Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; type 1; stress; register; life events; incidence; ICA; family characteristics; GADA; epidemiology; diabetes mellitus; classification; Ascertainment; BMI; type 2; unclassifiable; year of diagnosis.; Endocrinology; secreting systems; diabetology; Endokrinologi; sekretion; diabetologi;

   Abstract : The Diabetes Incidence Study in Sweden (DISS) registers diabetes in young adults aged 15-34 years in Sweden. This thesis aims to validate the ascertainment, methods in the classification of diabetes, and putative etiological factors such as family background, psychological stress, and BMI, that may affect the incidence of diabetes in young adults, in the DISS registry. READ MORE