The pivotal Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study demonstrate that poor glycemic control is associated with an increased risk of developing complications in type 1 diabetes (1).
"Information prescriptions are a really positive development that will enable primary care to help people with diabetes better understand and take ownership of their diabetes, and so empower people to avoid developing complications in the long term".
Because women with hypertension and diabetes believed that these diseases were not serious despite the knowledge of complications, there is greater risk of developing complications in them.
Only older patients with functional and cognitive impairment are at higher risk of developing complications in response to aggressive treatments [ 18].
Improving glycaemic control through timely and intensive diabetes treatment reduces the risk of developing complications in patients with diabetes 1, 2. With appropriate titration, insulin therapy is highly efficacious but is associated with hypoglycaemia.
A distance of 10 to 15 kilometres was not too far from a referral hospital, but due to lack of an effective referral system, women developed complications in a health unit and when referred, arrived late in hospital due to lack of ambulance system.
Alcoholic patients develop complications in a high proportion of patients, which often consists of cardiorespiratory failure due to underlying pneumonia.
"But for those vulnerable people who maybe have immunal compromise for other reasons or particularly young, it can present as a much more serious problem and it can indeed go on to develop complications in those children affected as well.
In addition to cramps and diarrhea, victims often have fever, and they sometimes develop complications in other organs.
Women who develop complications in and around Kampala city are referred here for management.
They refused to seek skilled medical care even after she developed complications in her eighth month of pregnancy.
