Article Critique: Childhood Type 2 Diabetes
Research Article Critique-Childhood Type II diabetes and Obesity
University of Phoenix
Research Article Critique Research critique enables nurses as a research consumer to evaluate the scientific merit of the study and decide how the results may be useful in practice. Critiquing involves intensive scrutiny of a study, including its strengths and weaknesses, statistical and clinical significance and the generalizability of the results. This paper will critique a medical quantitative study, which was conducted to “assess the prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) in insulin-treated youth with clinical features of type two diabetes mellitus (T2DM).” The study clearly states the increase concern among medical professionals …show more content…
The research shows that in patients with clinical features of T2DM who have evidence of B-cell autoimmunity (DD), the frequency of thyroid antibodies and ATD is similar to that in classical T1DM. This findings suggests that T1DM co-morbidities may be common in clinical T2DM patients who have B-cell autoimmunity. Despite their obesity, youth with insulin requiring diabetes should be screened for thyroid and possible other T1DM associated autoimmune …show more content…
The researches evaluated 183 White and Black children for the prevalence of thyroid peroxidase (TPO) and thyroglobulin (TGA) antibodies at onset of insulin-treated diabetes. 136 BMI of = 85th percentile) with or without acanthosis nigricans with B-cell autoimmunity or DD (group II) and 22 were overweight with no conventional B-cell auto-antibodies (group III). The criteria for selection process was suited for the study. The participants were admitted to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh with new onset diabetes determined to be insulin requiring by physicians less than 19 years of age at diagnosis; and insulin therapy at the time of hospital discharge. All cases of secondary diabetes were
University of Phoenix
Research Article Critique Research critique enables nurses as a research consumer to evaluate the scientific merit of the study and decide how the results may be useful in practice. Critiquing involves intensive scrutiny of a study, including its strengths and weaknesses, statistical and clinical significance and the generalizability of the results. This paper will critique a medical quantitative study, which was conducted to “assess the prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) in insulin-treated youth with clinical features of type two diabetes mellitus (T2DM).” The study clearly states the increase concern among medical professionals …show more content…
The research shows that in patients with clinical features of T2DM who have evidence of B-cell autoimmunity (DD), the frequency of thyroid antibodies and ATD is similar to that in classical T1DM. This findings suggests that T1DM co-morbidities may be common in clinical T2DM patients who have B-cell autoimmunity. Despite their obesity, youth with insulin requiring diabetes should be screened for thyroid and possible other T1DM associated autoimmune …show more content…
The researches evaluated 183 White and Black children for the prevalence of thyroid peroxidase (TPO) and thyroglobulin (TGA) antibodies at onset of insulin-treated diabetes. 136 BMI of = 85th percentile) with or without acanthosis nigricans with B-cell autoimmunity or DD (group II) and 22 were overweight with no conventional B-cell auto-antibodies (group III). The criteria for selection process was suited for the study. The participants were admitted to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh with new onset diabetes determined to be insulin requiring by physicians less than 19 years of age at diagnosis; and insulin therapy at the time of hospital discharge. All cases of secondary diabetes were