Issue 527

Product Spotlight Annual Edition

2010 Product Spotlight

HbA1c Variation by Race Weakens Its Exclusive Diabetes Diagnostic Power

African Americans have higher levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) than whites given the same blood glucose concentrations, and the difference is greater as glucose levels go up. Findings could affect the way physicians ...

Liver at 50% Greater Risk in Diabetes

Although the liver is often overlooked in diabetes, even newly-diagnosed cases carry a substantial risk of serious hepatic damage, researchers found....

Body Fat Linked to Diabetes Risk in Older People

To avoid Type 2 diabetes, seniors may need to watch their weight just as closely as younger individuals do, a prospective cohort study showed....

Diabetes Care Management Program Lowers Health Care Costs, Hospitalization Rates

Medicare patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease can significantly reduce both the cost of their medical care and rates of hospitalization by participating in a telephone-based diabetes disease management program, a new study...

Adolescent BP Predicts Progression to Hypertension in Young Adulthood

Adolescent blood pressure (BP) predicts progression to hypertension in young adulthood, with teen-age boys with normal BP 3 to 4 times more likely than girls to have high BP early in adulthood, according to the results of a...

FDA Reviews Olmesartan (Benicar) Safety Record, Cites CV Deaths in Trials

The FDA is conducting a safety review of the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) olmesartan (Benicar, Daiichi Sankyo) after determining that diabetic patients taking the drug in two completed phase 3 trials may have had an excess risk of...

New ACCORD Insights: Steady Glycemic Control Most Important

Epidemiologic relationships between A1c and all-Cause mortality during a median 3.4-year follow-up of glycemic treatment in the ACCORD Trial.... 

DURATION-4 Study Results: BYDUREON Efficacy and Tolerability Profile Extended to Monotherapy Treatment

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, and Alkermes, Inc., announced results from DURATION-4, the fourth in a series of studies designed to test the superiority of BYDUREON™ (exenatide extended-release for injectable...

Experts Reach Consensus on Diabetes and Cancer Links

US experts who reviewed the emerging evidence on the links between cancer and diabetes have reported their findings in a consensus statement on the state of science linking both diseases and highlighted key questions that remain...

Insulin Peptide Points to a Solution for Type 1 Diabetes

Researchers at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have identified the precise protein fragment, or peptide, that can trigger diabetes in mice.... 

Potential for Diabetes Patients to Create Their Own Insulin

Researchers have used a unique collection of pancreas specimens taken from patients who died soon after diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes to show that they respond to the ongoing process of destruction by inducing their islet cells to...

Circadian Clock in Pancreas Linked to Diabetes

For the first time, researchers at Northwestern University have found that there also exists a circadian clock in the pancreas, which regulates the production of insulin, and that a fault in this clock could eventually cause...

Young Adults Fitness Plays Major Role in Reducing Future Risk of Heart/Diabetes Disease

Tell your young adult patients to walk to classes and stay off the shuttle bus. Researchers found that body fat percentages are not the only precursors to health problems later in life.... 

European Atherosclerosis Society Recommends Screening for Lp(a)

Patients at high to moderate risk of cardiovascular disease should be screened for elevated levels of lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) and take niacin to bring their Lp(a) level under 50 mg/dL, according to a consensus statement from the European...

Antioxidants Increase Insulin Sensitivity

A diet high in antioxidants may help increase insulin sensitivity and enhance the effects of metformin, according to a small study.... 

Letter from the Editor: News from the ADA

Steve, Andrew and I are in Orlando at the ADA 70th Scientific Sessions and although things are just getting started there is already news in the diabetes sector. Lilly has agreed to co-brand their Humulin insulin line with Walmart,...

Test Your Knowledge #527: An African-American Man with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity, Part Two of Three

Mr. Barton is a 64-year-old African-American referred by his primary care physician for evaluation of his Type 2 diabetes. His history with Type 2 diabetes includes:

Did You Know? Hemoglobin A1c Levels Differ in Black and White Patients, Regardless of Blood Sugar Level

Hemoglobin A1c Levels Differ in Black and White Patients, Regardless of Blood Sugar Level: Studies have shown that blacks have higher hemoglobin A1c levels than whites. Experts have attributed this disparity to differences in diabetes control...

Did You Know? Diabetes Isn't Caused by a Sweet Tooth -- But Nearly Half of People Think So

Diabetes Isn't Caused by a Sweet Tooth -- But Nearly Half of People Think So: Nearly half (42%) of people still think eating too much sugar causes diabetes and a quarter (25%) of people object to people with diabetes injecting insulin in public,...

Fact: Obesity, Diabetes Rates at 10-Year High

Obesity, Diabetes Rates at 10-Year High: America's health card received a poor grade last week after the 2009 National Health Interview Survey revealed U.S. obesity and diabetes rates are at a 10-year all-time high. The results, released by the...

Fact: Women with Diabetes at Risk for Developing Abnormal Heart Rhythms

Women with Diabetes at Risk for Developing Abnormal Heart Rhythms: A study of 17,000 patients with diabetes has shown women with diabetes are at an increased risk for developing abnormal heart rhythms. A new study conducted by the Kaiser Permanente...