Issue 535

Test Your Knowledge #535: Nutrition by the Numbers Quiz from NuVal

See how your nutrition know-how stacks up.

Do This, Don’t Do That, Can’t You Read the Sign?

  Dr. Jen Nash, Clinical Psychologist

Letter from the Editor: Diabetes Disaster Avoided!

It seems like every time we get something new we forget about the old. Just last week I got a frantic call from an experienced, well-controlled, Omnipod patient who had not replaced her pod and had to inject insulin with a syringe. She was at lunch...

New Product: SynCardia

Artificial Heart Now Sold Online The maker of the only FDA-approved temporary total...

Tool for Your Practice: NuVal's Labeling System

GPS for the Grocery Store: New Food Rating System Consumers' growing demand for nutritional...

Roche Diabetes Care Highlights Infusion-site Management with Awareness Week

Roche Diabetes Care Highlights Infusion-site Management with Awareness Week: One of the many challenges for people with Type 1 diabetes is management of the infusion site, the place where a needle or plastic tube is inserted under the skin for...

Ornish, Pritikin Cleared for Medicare Payment

Ornish, Pritikin Cleared for Medicare Payment: Medicare will pay for intensive diet and exercise programs developed under the Ornish and Pritikin brands for reducing cardiovascular event risk, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced....

What We Can Do to Combat Obesity

What We Can Do to Combat Obesity: This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2009, no state had met a target of reducing obesity prevalence among adults to 15 percent. Dr. Teresa Quattrin from the CDC states that,...

Diabetes Is Predicted by Fatty Liver Indices

Two recently published indices of liver fat are predictive of diabetes in both men and women. The association was independent of traditional risk factors for diabetes such as glucose, diabetes in the family, insulin, sedentarity, smoking...

Retinopathy Common in Diabetic Adults

Nearly 30% of U.S. diabetes patients over the age of 40 may have diabetic retinopathy, with 4% of this population affected to the point where their vision is threatened, suggests a new study… 

Elevated Resting Heart Rate, Mortality Risk

An elevated resting heart rate that develops or persists during follow-up is associated with a significantly increased risk of death whether from heart disease or other causes, according to a study. Findings suggest patients and their...

Larger Waist Associated with Greater Risk of Death

Individuals with a large waist circumference appear to have a greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report… 

Brain Surgery Prevents Onset and Progression of Diabetes

Seven of 10 patients in trial who underwent microvascular decompression surgery experience significant improvement in glucose control…. 

Simple Blood Test Predicts Who Might Develop Type 2 Diabetes Among Healthy Women

Doctors may have identified a new and simple way to predict risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. The result of a simple blood test may be the earliest alert to doctors and patients to implement lifestyle changes that may delay or prevent...

Effect of Exercise Training on Physical Fitness in Type 2 Diabetes

Combined training does not provide additional benefits or show improvements in fitness in younger subjects compared with aerobic and resistance training alone. In older subjects, there was a trend to greater aerobic fitness gains with...

Calcium Supplements Boost Heart-Attack Risk: Meta-Analysis

The use of calcium supplements without coadministered vitamin D is associated with an increased risk of MI. The finding, from a meta-analysis encompassing 15 randomized trials and up to 11,921 participants, warrants a reassessment of the...

Study Questions Aggressive Glucose Control in All Patients with Diabetes and Renal Failure

Aggressive glucose control does not improve survival in patients with diabetes and renal failure, according to a study. The results suggest that physicians should individualize hemoglobin (Hb) A1c targets for these patients and not rely on...

Shorter (5-mm) Needles Deliver Insulin Reliably

New research has found that 5-mm needles effectively deliver insulin into subcutaneous fat in both adults and children. Compared with intramuscular injections of insulin, injections into the subcutaneous fat are...

Diabetes Patients Medical Treatments Cost Hospitals $83 Billion

Hospitals spent $83 billion in 2008 caring for people with diabetes with one out of every five hospitalizations being a person that has diabetes. This was according to a report prepared by the Healthcare Research and Quality Agency...

New Nutritional Scoring System: NuVal Rating

Consumers' growing demand for nutritional guidance spurred the creation of NuVal. NuVal's labeling system evaluates foods based upon more than 30 nutritional attributes, including positive ones such as fiber and negative ones...