Diabetes research and clinical practice
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Jan 1990
Importance of attitude evaluation in diabetes patient education.
Attitudes were evaluated according to the 'Personal Responsibility Attitude Assessment System' (PRAS), which allows grading of patients' attitudes into five levels of perception of responsibility toward their disease. In 59 diabetics evaluated in this study, no sex difference was observed in attitude level, but more of those aged less than 40 years showed lower attitude levels (levels 1-4) than those aged 40 years or over (P less than 0.01). Of those aged 40 or over, more patients with a high attitude level (level 5) had had diabetes for 10 years or longer than those with low attitude levels (levels 1-4) (P less than 0.05). ⋯ As for women, low attitude level patients consumed less fruit, meat or fish, and vegetables (P less than 0.05) but more fat and sweetening agents (P less than 0.05) than high attitude level patients. These results suggest an association between the attitude level of diabetic patients evaluated by PRAS and the degree of their self-care. Evaluation of patients' attitudes is important in predicting the response to educational intervention in diabetes.
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Jan 1990
Simple estimation of ideal body weight from body mass index with the lowest morbidity.
Body mass index (BMI) is expressed by the body weight (kg) divided by height (m) squared. Therefore, if we know ideal BMI, ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by a formula: Ideal BMI x height (m)2. In order to estimate ideal BMI, we investigated average BMI with the lowest morbidity using 4565 Japanese men and women aged 30 to 59 years. ⋯ The morbidity was evaluated by the number of medical problems that the subjects with each BMI have. The BMI associated with the lowest morbidity was calculated to be 22.2 kg/m2 in men and 21.9 kg/m2 in women according to the quadratic regression curves derived from the relation between BMI and morbidity. From these data, we propose that an ideal body weight in Japanese is 22 x height (m)2.