Title: Diet nursing of the diabetes mellitus and correlated study ABSTRACT Background Except for cancer and cardiovascular disease, diabetes has become the third largest chronic diseases that threaten human health. Controlling blood glucose level is the basic and ultimate goal in the view of medical and nursing service, and it is the only method which can prevent the process of pathology and complications of diabetes. It is good for the long-term blood glucose control that adopting the proper diet plan for diabetic patients. For all types of diabetes care, diet is the most basic treatment measure. Reasonably controling diet can reduce the load of islet β-cells that will help to control blood glucose level, and it’s very significant to control diabetes onset. Therefore, efforts should be made to increase publicity and education of diabetes, especially the role of diet on diabetes occurrence and development. Through diet’s care management, requiring the patients’ diet to meet timing, quantitative, low salt, low fat, low cholesterol and high vitamin, so that decreasing diabetes incidence rate, further enhancing the quality of life of residents, reducing the financial burden on families, and reducing or delaying the occurrence of diabetes chronic complications. Objectives Our purpose is to study the influence of the diet construction after diet nursing care in type 2 diabetes patients in order to find a more effective way to control blood glucose. Methods A total number of 102 patients who met WHO diabetes diagnostic criteria were selected between July 2007 and June 2008. Patients were randomly divided into two groups. A routine treatment were conducted in both groups. Experiment group used the methods of centralized lectures and individual guidance,and the patients diet will be intervened at the same time. Relatives of the patients were invited to participate the dietary treatment process. Reexam items ,which included fasting blood glucose, 2h postprandial glucose, TG,Tch,HDL – C,LDL - C of the two groups, were recorded and analyzed. Results There was a statistical significance in all items(fasting blood glucose, 2h postprandial glucose, TG,Tch,HDL – C,LDL - C) between experiment group and control group after treatment ( P < 0. 05). Conclusion: Diet nursing care is an important part of diabetes treatment, through the clinical intervention in diabetes patients diet, the patient had mastered the knowledge of diet, could control blood glucose well, enhance the quality of life of patients, delay the occurrence of diabetes chronic complications. KEY WORDS: Diabetes;Diet;Nursing TYPE OF THESIS: Application Research