View clinical trials related to Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2.
Filter by:The purpose of this study is to modify and evaluate a culturally appropriate intervention that is designed to improve diabetes self-care practices by enhancing the self-efficacy, empowerment and diabetes knowledge among Latino adults over the age of 55 years.
This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a novel cardiovascular disease prevention program designed for delivery through existing primary health care services in rural villages in Andhra Pradesh. The primary aim is to increase the number of high-risk individuals in the population that are appropriately managed with proven, low-cost preventive interventions. The corresponding null hypothesis is therefore that the prevention program will result in no change in the proportion of high-risk individuals identified and treated in villages assigned to intervention compared with those villages assigned to control.
Our aim is to determine if a patient-directed intervention is more effective than computerized clinician reminders alone for improving aspirin use in adults with diabetes.
This randomized trial will test the hypotheses that (a) a physician opinion leader intervention, (b) a "narrative process trace" physician feedback intervention, or (c) the combined intervention (a + b), are no more effective than (d) usual care in improving the clinical care of adult patients with type 2 diabetes.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment with rosuvastatin for 6 months in obese type 2 diabetic women will improve their lipid profiles and thus prevent the progression to cardiovascular disease.
This project evaluates a HPMG effort to reduce error rates through customized direct feedback of diabetes quality of care data to diabetes patients and their physicians. HPMG has routinely provided patients with personalized feedback of glucose and cholesterol test results since about 1997. This project will implement and evaluate the impact of this intervention on diabetes medical error rates and resource use.
Objective - A variety of herbal, over-the-counter preparations of tea leaves are said to reduce the rate of absorption of fat ( allegedly via inhibition of pancreatic lipase) and carbohydrate (via inhibition of carbohydrate digestion and blocking of glucose transport by the intestinal mucosa). There has been some study of the ability of these products to reduce the blood glucose increase observed after a carbohydrate meal and to reduce blood cholesterol levels in chronic studies. The purpose of the present study is to objectively determine if one cup of “tea” made from a combination of three types of tea leaves (mulberry, black and green tea) can cause malabsorption of carbohydrate and fat taken in conjunction with the tea. Research Design - The study will consist of a double blind, placebo controlled crossover study in 20 healthy subjects. On one of two days (one week apart) the subjects will ingest a standard meal consisting of 30 g of sucrose (in the tea) and 30 g of starch in the form of white rice plus 10 g of fat as butter. To measure triglyceride absorption, each meal will also contain 250 mg of 13-C labeled triolein. Triolein is a commonly ingested fat consisting of glycerol bound to three oleic acids. 13-C is a stable (non-radioactive) isotope of carbon. On one of the test days the subjects (randomly) will concurrently consume the active preparation, a tea containing extracts of the three types of tea leave described above plus the meal, and on the other test day they will consume the meal with a liquid placebo preparation (warm water, sugar and food coloring). Subjects will provide a breath sample before and at hourly intervals for 8 hours after ingestion of the meal. Carbohydrate malabsorption will be determined by the hydrogen concentration in the breath samples and fat malabsorption by the concentration of 13-CO2 in the breath samples. Clinical Significance - An increase in breath hydrogen indicates carbohydrate malabsoption and a low 13-CO2 indicates lipid malabsorption. Objective evidence that the tea leaf extract actually induces carbohydrate and/or fat malabsorption could provide the basis for further studies.
This study is not being conducted in the United States. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of vildagliptin, an unapproved drug, on various measures of pancreatic islet function in people with type 2 diabetes who have not previously been treated with drug therapy to lower their blood sugar.
The 2010 National Health Objectives call for a reduction in the prevalence of obesity. The marked recent increase in overweight and obesity prevalence implicates behavioral factors in the etiology of the epidemic. The present proposal hypothesizes the trend is attributal, in part, to increasing consumption of energy-yeilding beverages since they are a significant and increasing source of dietarty energy and they elicit weaker appetitive and dietary responses than solid foods.
This study is a placebo-controlled study in both healthy normal subjects and patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus to assess the levels of exenatide in the bloodstream when it is given for 7 days, and to assess the impact this medication has on various substances in the blood. Assessments include repeat blood sampling and monitoring of any side effects.