[Type 2 Diabetes and Short Form 36-items Health Survey]. / Evaluation de la qualité de vie de diabétiques de type 2 par l'échelle internationale SF 36.

OBJECTIVES: This study explores the quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes with the French Short Form 36-items Health Survey which involves eight health concepts: physical functioning, body pain, role limitations due to physical health problems, role limitations due to personal or emotional problems, general mental health, social functioning, energy and general health perceptions. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The French SF 36 was proposed to 282 diabetic patients, 70 years of age and under, randomly selected from the database of Social Security healthcare office in Lyon (total: 4 644 patients). 160 healthy controls, matched for age and sex, were enrolled. 12 questionaires were not analysed because of linguistic difficulties. RESULTS: The data show that quality of life is altered into T2D compared with the control population in all 8 dimensions of SF-36 items Health Survey. CONCLUSIONS: Quality of life is an interesting element to take into account for practitioners during management of diabetic patients, that could prove useful in order to obtain a better compliance of the patients.

[Consumption of allergy medicines in 2000 and 2001: data from 12 Primary Medical Insurance Offices (CPAM) in the Rhône-Alpes region]. / Consommation de médicaments allergiques en 2000 et en 2001: données des douze CPAM de la région Rhône-Alpes.

OBJECTIVES: Comparison of the annual consumption of different classes of antiallergy medicines in the Rhône-Alpes region and as a function of the pollen calendar. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Exhaustive review, over all the beneficiaries of the general system of social security aged from 6 to 65 years, of the number of weekly supplies: non-cholinergic oral antihistamines (antiH1), anti-allergy nasal sprays, anti-allergy eye lotions, delayed release injectable orticosteroids. In the twelve Primary Offices of Medical Assurance of the Rhône-Alpes region for the years 2000 and 2001. The results are expressed as the number of units (boxes)/100 beneficiaries. RESULTS: The principal reports are: Consumptions vary in a parallel way between the different regions with a south > north and plain > mountain gradient between the different therapeutic classes (per os > local administration); a fluctuation closely linked to the presence of allergizing pollens: ragweed is responsible for high consumption in all the departments except the two Savoie. The observed peak of pollinization of birch in 2001 was associated with a peak of deliveries. These data confirm the value of data of medicines consumption both economically and medically.