Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Adolescence is a period of rapid body growth and cognitive development, requiring balanced and sufficient nutrient intake. Since dietary habits are usually acquired in this period and could affect dietary practice in later life. It is crucial for adolescents to acquire healthy dietary behaviors for long-term health. However, the prevalence of diet-related metabolic syndrome risks such as obesity, glucose intolerance, elevated blood pressure, and dyslipidemia is inc...

Introduction: The rising incidence of diabetes mellitus type 2 in Albania intensifies the need for effective health education for diabetes risk factors reduction among nurses and other health care practitioners.Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a description of nurses’ knowledge about, attitudes toward, practice behaviors related to Diabetes mellitus type 2 risk reduction.Methods: We surveyed 50 primary care nu...

Background: The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors and its prevalence is alarmingly high in Albania, affecting nearly 20% of the adult population. There is lack of information about the role of community pharmacists in the care of patients with the metabolic syndrome.Objective: To assess the awareness and opinions of community pharmacists about the metabolic syndrome and identify the services they provide for iden...

Background: Obesity is a growing health concern in Albania. Obesity has been identified as a key risk factor for many chronic diseases including hypertension, dyslipidaemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study was conducted to investigate the role of community pharmacists in obesity counselling, and to identify the barriers to counselling in Albania.Methods: It was used a descriptive cross-sectional study involved ten community pharmacies that were s...

Objective: Of this study is to evaluate if a pharmaceutical care program could improve glycaemic control in patients with diabetes.Aim: The aims of the study are: i) to reinforce the lifestyle advice given to patients with diabetes at annual and other reviews. ii) to improve glycaemic control in patients with diabetes and improve patients adherence to medication. iii) to encourage participation to structured group education for diabetes patients.<p c...

Background: Diabetes type II is an emerging chronic disease in developing countries. Currently the management of diabetes in developing countries is mainly hospital or clinic based. With burgeoning numbers of patients with diabetes, other models need to be evaluated for service delivery in developing countries. Community pharmacists are an important option for provision of diabetes care. Currently, data regarding practices of community pharmacists in diabetes care in Albania a...

Background and purpose: The rising incidence of diabetes mellitus in Albania intensifies the need for effective health education for DM risk reduction among pharmacists, nurses and other health care practitioners. As a result, continuing diabetes education is pivotal in improving the performance of these professionals and thus providing better health care services.Objective: Our goal was to develop an e-learning course on the management of Diabetes melli...

Aims: To present an analysis of the evidence related to the prevalence and incidence of diabetes type 1 or type 2 in children and adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, assess available support on managing their diabetes, and the services they receive, investigate the available structured education programs tailored for people with IDD.Methods: We conducted different searches of multiple databases.(PUBMED, ME...