Search Results - "Cheung, Kitty K.T."
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Premature Mortality and Comorbidities in Young-onset Diabetes: A 7-Year Prospective Analysis
Published in The American journal of medicine (01-07-2014)“…Abstract Background There is an increasing prevalence of young-onset diabetes, especially in developing areas. We compared the clinical outcomes and predictors…”
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Evolution of Diabetes Care in Hong Kong: From the Hong Kong Diabetes Register to JADE-PEARL Program to RAMP and PEP Program
Published in Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul) (01-03-2018)“…The rapid increase in diabetes prevalence globally has contributed to large increases in health care expenditure on diabetic complications, posing a major…”
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Association between educational level and cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes: a prospective study in the Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation Program
Published in Clinical epidemiology (01-01-2018)“…The aim of this study was to describe the association between educational level and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality in Hong Kong…”
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A new tool to detect kidney disease in Chinese type 2 diabetes patients: comparison of EZSCAN with standard screening methods
Published in Diabetes technology & therapeutics (01-09-2011)“…EZSCAN(®) (Impeto Medical, Paris, France), a noninvasive device that assesses sweat gland dysfunction using reverse iontophoresis, also detects early…”
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Modifying Effect of Body Mass Index on Survival in Elderly Type 2 Diabetic Patients: Hong Kong Diabetes Registry
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-03-2016)“…Abstract Objective There are nonlinear risk associations of body mass index (BMI) with mortality in type 2 diabetes (T2D) and elderly populations although…”
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Nonalbuminuric Diabetic Kidney Disease and Risk of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular and Kidney Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes: Findings From the Hong Kong Diabetes Biobank
Published in American journal of kidney diseases (01-08-2022)“…Nonalbuminuric diabetic kidney disease (DKD) has become the prevailing DKD phenotype. We compared the risks of adverse outcomes among patients with this…”
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Association of technologically assisted integrated care with clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes in Hong Kong using the prospective JADE Program: A retrospective cohort analysis
Published in PLoS medicine (02-10-2020)“…Diabetes outcomes are influenced by host factors, settings, and care processes. We examined the association of data-driven integrated care assisted by…”
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Sudomotor dysfunction independently predicts incident cardiovascular-renal events and all-cause death in type 2 diabetes: the Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation register
Published in Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation (01-08-2019)“…Early detection and risk factor control prevent chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. Evaluation of peripheral autonomic dysfunction may detect incident…”
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Glycaemia control and the risk of hospitalisation for infection in patients with type 2 diabetes: Hong Kong Diabetes Registry
Published in Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews (01-11-2017)“…Background Infection occurs more commonly in diabetic patients compared with the general population and is an under‐recognised but important morbidity in…”
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Additive effects of blood glucose lowering drugs, statins and renin-angiotensin system blockers on all-site cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes
Published in BMC medicine (13-05-2014)“…Hyperglycemia is associated with increased risk of all-site cancer that may be mediated through activation of the renin-angiotensin-system (RAS) and…”
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Hypoglycaemia, chronic kidney disease and death in type 2 diabetes: the Hong Kong diabetes registry
Published in BMC endocrine disorders (13-06-2014)“…In patients with type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with increased risk of hypoglycaemia and death. Yet, it remains uncertain whether…”
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Intrarenal arterial resistance is associated with microvascular complications in Chinese type 2 diabetic patients
Published in Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation (01-03-2013)“…Increased renal arterial resistance is associated with various types of chronic renal parenchymal diseases. A resistance index (RI) > 0.8 predicts…”
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An uncommon cause of Cushing's syndrome in a 70-year-old man
Published in Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi (01-08-2014)“…Cushing's syndrome due to exogenous steroids is common, as about 1% of the general populations use exogenous steroids for various indications. Although…”
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