Diabetes Mellitus
Conditions
Keywords
Diabetes Mellitus, Body constitution
Brief summary
By analyzing the relationship between the body constitution and the progression of Type II diabetes mellitus, its morbidities, mortality and the impact of the life quality, we try to provide an useful tool, body constitution, to stratify the patients accordingly for individualized health care.
Detailed description
The study participants are recruited from the Diabetes Shared Care Network of the Taichung Veterans General Hospital (Taichung, Taiwan)
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* patient diagnosed as Type II diabetes mellitus by Endocrinology specialist. * aged from 20 to 75 years old. * clear conscious, willing to join the program.
Exclusion criteria
* Severe mental illness, which lead to unable to fulfill the questionaire * Major surgical intervention,medical events (such as acute myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accident...et al.,), chemotherapy or radiation therapy within past one month , which made body constitution measurement unavailable.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Body constitution of type II diabetes mellitus patients | Two years follow up after being recruited |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| All cause mortality of type II diabetes mellitus patients | Two years follow up after being recruited |
| Life quality of diabetes mellitus patients | Two years follow up after being recruited |
| Diabetic retinopathy of type II diabetes mellitus patients | Two years follow up after being recruited |
| Diabetic nephropathy of type II diabetes mellitus patients | Two years follow up after being recruited |
| Diabetic neuropathy of type II diabetes mellitus patients | Two years follow up after being recruited |
Countries
Taiwan