Issue 529

Review: Prescription for Type 2 Diabetes: EXERCISE by Milt Bedingfield, MA, CDE

Katy Wallis,...

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Test Your Knowledge #529: A Caucasian Man with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes and Renal Insufficiency, Part One of Three

Mr. Johnson is a 58-year-old Caucasian who presents for evaluation of his Type 2 diabetes, discovered 6 months ago by a random glucose measurement of 250 mg/dL using his wife's blood glucose meter. Mr. Johnson visited his physician a few days...

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Letter from the Editor: Quinine, Avandia and a Prescription for Type 2 Diabetes: EXERCISE!

It is not often that I venture out of the diabetes arena. However, this week I wanted to start out by reminding you that the FDA is again issuing a strong warning not to prescribe quinine for your patients who complain of leg cramps. This...

Did You Know? Parents Oblivious to Overweight Kids

Parents Oblivious to Overweight Kids: A new report, "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010," has found that along with high-fat foods, lack of exercise, and too much screen time, another obesity issue may be misperceptions about...

Did You Know? Metformin Reduces Deaths in Patients with Diabetes and Atherothrombosis

Metformin Reduces Deaths in Patients with Diabetes and Atherothrombosis: New research shows that in patients with diabetes and known atherothrombosis, metformin is associated with a 24% decrease in all-cause mortality after two years of follow-up. ...

Fact: Twenty Percent Increase in Kidney Failure among People with Diabetes

Twenty Percent Increase in Kidney Failure among People with Diabetes: Between 2003 and 2009 there was a 20% increase in people with diabetes needing dialysis or a kidney transplant, as reported by the UK's National Diabetes Audit. The audit also...

Fact: Vitamin B Therapy Decreases GFR and Increases Vascular Events in Diabetes Patients with Retinopathy

Vitamin B Therapy Decreases GFR and Increases Vascular Events in Diabetes Patients with Retinopathy: The multicenter, double-blind Diabetic Intervention with Vitamins to Improve Nephropathy (DIVINe) study assessed the effects of vitamin B therapy...

Pre-existing Conditions Covered by New High-Risk Insurance Pools

Let your patients with diabetes and no insurance know that, beginning July 1, individuals with pre-existing health conditions as diabetes are eligible to enroll in a temporary high-risk insurance pool, courtesy of the health care reform...

Tight Blood Pressure Control Associated with Worse Outcomes for Diabetes and Heart Disease Patients

Patients with hypertension, diabetes and coronary artery disease who maintained their systolic blood pressure at less than 130 mm Hg, as recommended by the American Diabetes Association, did not have improved cardiovascular outcomes...

Examining Group Office Visits for Diabetes Management

Group medical clinics are a potent strategy for improving blood pressure but not A1c level in diabetic patients as previous studies have shown.... 

Carbohydrate Restriction Improves Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents

This study supports the concept that high dietary glycemic carbohydrate is associated with a higher prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in adolescents....

Study Finds Visually Impaired People Get Insulin Pen Dosages Right

Study shows visually impaired people can use insulin pens even though the labels on the popular insulin pen used by people with diabetes warn against visually-impaired people using pens to measure out and administer their insulin...

Sitagliptin Effective for Type 1's

Patients with Type 1 diabetes who have higher than recommended A1c levels may benefit from treatment with sitagliptin....

Atorvastatin vs. Rosuvastatin in Protecting Kidneys

Results of two related trials investigating the effects of statins on urinary protein excretion and kidney function found atorvastatin (ATV) protective and rosuvastatin (RSV) unprotective, and possibly harmful, in diabetic and nondiabetic...

Community-Based Health Intervention Provides Weight Loss and Improvement in Glucose

A community-based health intervention styled after the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) helped adults at risk for diabetes lose significant amounts of weight and pull their belts in by a notch or 2, reported...

Intensive Glucose-lowering Therapy for Newly Diagnosed

A study has compared two intensive therapies to lower blood glucose levels in patients with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes mellitus. The findings reveal the efficacy and safety of both insulin and triple oral therapy.... 

Heart Beat May Provide Clues to Kidney Health

Individuals with a high resting heart rate and a low beat-to-beat heart rate variability have an increased risk of developing kidney disease, according to a study....

Gestational Diabetes Risk in Relation to Sleep Duration and Snoring during Pregnancy

Findings suggest associations of short sleep duration and snoring with glucose intolerance and GDM.... 

Understanding the Body's Response to Fasting Can Lead to Therapies for Metabolic Disorders

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have found that an enzyme with several important roles in energy metabolism also helps to turn off the body's generation of fats and cholesterol under conditions of...