Prospective Cohort Study of the Body Constitution Among Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01943214

CE13177

Details and patient eligibility

About

By analyzing the relationship between the body constitution and the progression of Type II diabetes mellitus, its morbidities, mortality and the impact of the life quality, we try to provide an useful tool, body constitution, to stratify the patients accordingly for individualized health care.

Full description

The study participants are recruited from the Diabetes Shared Care Network of the Taichung Veterans General Hospital (Taichung, Taiwan)

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient diagnosed as Type II diabetes mellitus by Endocrinology specialist.
• aged from 20 to 75 years old.
• clear conscious, willing to join the program.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe mental illness, which lead to unable to fulfill the questionaire
• Major surgical intervention,medical events (such as acute myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accident...et al.,), chemotherapy or radiation therapy within past one month , which made body constitution measurement unavailable.

Trial design

1,000 participants in 1 patient group

Type II DM body constitution

Description:

Type II diabetes mellitus, body constitution