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To investigate the personal features associated with dropout from regular outpatient care among persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM).
A total of 160 DM patients were enrolled in the study. As a retrospective analysis, outpatient's clinical characteristics, lifestyle, or social features were gathered from their medical records or interview sheets. All the subjects were divided into two groups by adherence to diabetic care, namely, 'dropout case' (DC), or 'ongoing case' (OC), and...