The most common complications of diabetes that lead to mortality and disability include cardiovascular diseases, neuropathy, nephropathy, retinopathy and foot ulcers [ 1].
As expected, we observed important decrements in clients' HRQL for common health conditions predictive or indicative of disability, including arthritis, mental health disorders and incontinence.
The most common features include intellectual disabilities, craniofacial dysmorphology, short stature, and muscular and cardiac defects.
Other common sequelae include intellectual disability, hypotonia and seizures.
Disability included speech/language disability and learning disability.
Physical disability included sensory impairments, limb disabilities, and work limitations, while cognitive disability included intellectual disabilities, mental health disabilities, and learning disabilities.
Incidence of severe disability included progression of mild disability to severe disability.
Common co-morbids include learning disabilities, autism, anxiety disorders, depression, and bipolar affective disorder.
While DHT can treat most disabilities, some of its patients' most common diagnoses include CP, Down Syndrome, autism, spina bifida, traumatic brain injury, genetic syndromes and learning disabilities.
These are termed 'co-morbid conditions' and common ones include developmental delays (fine motor, language, etc)., various learning disabilities and specific mental health conditions such as anxiety.
