Oprah's Outpouring: A Bittersweet Commentary on Responses to Her Diabetes Show
Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN,...
The Serotonin Power Diet
by Judith Wurtman, PhD, and Nina Frusztajer, MD
Diabetes and Oral Health Patient Handout
Diabetes and Oral Health Patient Handout
Test Your Knowledge #509: A 55-year-old man who has Type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia recently....
A 55-year-old man who has Type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia recently had an abnormal result on a cardiac stress test. He has stable microalbuminuria and a serum creatinine concentration of 1.2 mg/dL (106.1...
Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Finds
Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Finds: A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely (before age 55) of illness or a...
Eye Damage from Diabetes Remains the Leading Cause of Blindness in Adults
Eye Damage from Diabetes Remains the Leading Cause of Blindness in Adults: Nearly 60% of all diabetes patients can expect to develop diabetic retinopathy within ten years of their diagnosis. Despite major progress in diagnosis and treatment,...
One Espresso Can Slow Blood Flow to the Heart
One Espresso Can Slow Blood Flow to the Heart: It may be the perfect morning pick-me-up. But a single espresso could be bad for your heart and reduce blood flow by more then 20%. Decaffeinated coffee, in contrast, can boost blood flow. The...
Minorities Less Likely to Receive A1c Diabetes Test
Minorities Less Likely to Receive A1c Diabetes Test: Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America's diabetes epidemic but are two to three times less likely than white patients to receive the A1c test during physician...
Childhood Obesity and Pre-Diabetes Linked with Premature Death
Obesity, glucose intolerance, and hypertension in childhood are strongly linked with premature death from endogenous causes in young adulthood and middle age, according to the results of a new epidemiological study....
INGAP (Exsulin™) Study to Regenerate Beta Cells Begins
A clinical trial of Exsulin, an innovative new treatment that targets the underlying cause of Type 1 diabetes offering hope for those with Type 1 diabetes, has begun at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal....
Metformin XR Helps Overweight Teens Lose Weight
According to a study, metformin XR, a medication prescribed to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes, helps adolescents lose weight when used in combination with a program encouraging increased physical activity and controlled...
Pay-for-Performance Improves Patient Care Outcomes for Diabetes
Measures of quality of care and clinical outcomes improved significantly when diabetic patients in a large private health plan were treated by physicians receiving pay-for-performance incentives, researchers said....
Monitoring Helps Stop Drug-Associated Hyperkalemia Events in Diabetics
Potassium monitoring can help prevent drug-associated hyperkalemia events in patients with diabetes, according to a report....
Diabetes Tied to Poor Impulse Control
Patients with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes were significantly more likely to show poor impulse control in psychological testing than healthy people, researchers said. The findings could help explain why diabetic patients find it...
Prevalence of Childhood Chronic Health Conditions Increases
The rate of chronic health conditions among children in the U.S. increased from 12.8 percent in 1994 to 26.6 percent in 2006, for conditions such as obesity, asthma and behavior/learning problems, according to a study....
FDA Expands Rosuvastatin Use to People with Normal LDL
The FDA has approved the statin for reducing the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, and revascularization procedures in individuals who have normal low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels. The new labeling, recommended by an FDA advisory...
Vinegar Decreases Postprandial Hyperglycemia in Patients with Type 1
Vinegar could be easily used as a complementary food (e.g., in a salad dressing) to reduce hyperglycemia....
Lispro Vs. Detemir in Insulin-Naive Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Lispro comes out ahead with lower A1c results, but....
Monotherapy of Sitagliptin Compared with Metformin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Sitagliptin was non-inferior to metformin in improving HbA1c in treatment-naive patients with Type 2 diabetes....
Effect of Periodontal Treatment on Glycemic Control of Diabetic Patients
There is growing evidence that periodontitis may affect general health. This study by university researchers from the Netherlands was assigned to explore the robustness of observations that periodontal therapy leads to the improvement of...
Chocolate Linked to Lower Stroke and Stroke Mortality Risk
A new systematic review from Canadian researchers suggests higher chocolate consumption may be associated with a lower risk for incident stroke and stroke-related mortality....
One in Five Teens at Risk of Heart Disease Due to High Cholesterol
One out of every five U.S. teenagers has a cholesterol level that increases the risk of heart disease, federal health officials reported, providing striking new evidence that obesity is making more children prone to illnesses once...
Effects of Exenatide Plus Rosiglitazone on Beta Cell Function and Insulin Sensitivity in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes on Metformin
Therapy with exenatide plus rosiglitazone offset the weight gain observed with rosiglitazone, and elicited an additive effect on glycemic control, with significant improvements, researchers from the Department of Medicine, University of...
Letter from the Editor #509
Last week we had a commentary from one of our feature writers, Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, on the program with Dr. Mehmet Oz and Oprah Winfrey...
