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Quality Indicators Of Diabetes Care: An Example Of Remote-Area Aboriginal Primary Health Care Over 10 Years, Julia V. Marley, Carmel Nelson, Vicki O'Donnell, David Atkinson
Quality Indicators Of Diabetes Care: An Example Of Remote-Area Aboriginal Primary Health Care Over 10 Years, Julia V. Marley, Carmel Nelson, Vicki O'Donnell, David Atkinson
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
To describe service characteristics of Derby Aboriginal Health Service (DAHS) and document diabetes management activities and intermediate clinical outcomes for Aboriginal patients with type 2 diabetes.
Elucidating The Function Of Transplanted Islets Of Langerhans And Predicting Their Ability To Reverse Diabetes, Andrew R. Pepper
Elucidating The Function Of Transplanted Islets Of Langerhans And Predicting Their Ability To Reverse Diabetes, Andrew R. Pepper
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Type 1 diabetics require daily injections of exogenous insulin to control hyperglycemia. Unfortunately, patients are still plagued by vascular and hypoglycemic complications. Beta cell replacement therapy by either whole organ pancreas or islet transplantation has been shown to restore carbohydrate control to these patients. A major barrier to successful islet transplantation is the lack of a reliable pre-transplant assay of post-transplant function thus providing an objective measure of whether a particular islet isolation should be transplanted. Such an assay would also prove to be a valuable tool in the experimental evaluation of innovative islet isolation strategies and technologies. The initial …