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Michael A Adedigba
Nigeria
Review Article
Is Periodontitis the Missing Link? A Metaethnographic Review of Glycemic Control Measures by Nigerian Diabetologists
Author(s): Solomon O. Nwhator*,Michael A Adedigba
Solomon O. Nwhator*,Michael A Adedigba
Diabetologists have always been aware of the adverse infect of infection on glycemic control. Periodontitis is a state of chronic subclinical inflammation exerting a similar adverse influence on glycemic control. The mortality of diabetes mellitus in Nigeria remains high despite attempts at “tight glycemic control” using diet, life style modification, oral hypoglycemic and insulin. Reported attainment of glycemic control is at times as low as 15%. The result of the failure in meeting glycemic control targets has taken in toll on the life of Nigerians and stretched our meager resources to the limits due to frequent admissions as a result hyperglycemic emergencies. These emergencies leave in their trail, reduced sexual function, microangiopathy and attendant end stage renal disease, blindness, limb amputatio.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2161-1122.1000121