Site Rotation Guide
Provide this guide to your patients so they can maintain good site rotation...
Site Rotation Guide
Site Rotation Guide
Provide this guide to your patients so they can maintain...
Letter from the Editor: More Electronic Prescriptions and "The Question is, My Dear Watson, Why Did the Dog Not Bark?"
This week, a new study from Surescripts found that the use of electronic prescribing in 2010 increased by 72% over 2009, climbing to 326 million up from 190 million e-prescriptions in 2009. By the end of 2010,...
50 Year Medalists' Biochemistry Clue Researchers to the Source of Complications or "The Question Is, My Dear Watson, Why Did the Dog Not Bark?"
The Joslin 50-Year Medalist Study
AARON VINIK, MD, PHD, FCP, MACP
The Joslin Gold Medalists...
TYK #573: What are the three natural hormones that our bodies make to regulate glucose that...
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Exercise Harder and Improve Your Mood
Mood improves more after vigorous exercise, researchers find. Vigorous exercise offers more of a mood boost than less strenuous exercise, a new study finds. Researchers compared 11 sedentary people who did moderate and high-intensity exercise....
Intensive Glucose Control and Risk of Cancer
Type 2 diabetes has been associated with an increased risk of cancer. This study examines the effect of more vs. less intensive glucose control on the risk of cancer in patients with Type 2 diabetes. All 11,140 participants from the Action in...
Diabetic? Eat Almonds
Consuming a few almonds daily can help combat the lifestyle disease. "It does help in pushing diabetes away," says Ritesh Gupta, head of clinical operation at Fortis C-Doc Hospital, New Delhi. "It is a healthy source of fiber, protein and calories...
Structured Exercise Controls Blood Sugar
Structured exercise programs comprising aerobics, resistance training or both helps people with Type 2 diabetes control blood sugar levels, and although physical exercise advice by itself does not appear to make any difference, when...
Salt Intake and High Blood Pressure Not Related?
Researchers found that people with low salt intakes were more likely to die of heart disease than people with higher salt intakes. But Harvard nutrition experts say the study is inaccurate and misleading....
ACE-I Lowers the Risk for Renal Disease in Obese Patients
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition with the drug ramipril reduced the rate of renal events among patients with proteinuria in all body mass index (BMI) strata, but the effect was greater among obese patients....
Cell Phones Keep Blood Pressure and Diabetes in Check
A mobile-phone-based remote patient monitoring system helped patients with Type 2 diabetes and uncontrolled hypertension get their blood pressure (BP) under control....
Low-fat Dairy Doesn't Help Kids Lose Weight
Kids who swap out regular dairy products for low-fat varieties consume less saturated fat but don't seem to lose weight....
Women Fare WorseThan Men When It Comes to Treatment of Heart Disease
Female heart attack patients are less likely to receive surgical intervention and there is a 30% higher death rate among those who do....
Obesity Types in Vitamin D-Deficient Children Vary with Race
Obesity types in vitamin D-deficient children vary with race, according to the results of a reported study....
Start Obesity Screening as Early as Age 2
Screening children as young as 2 years for obesity may be more successful in weight control and preventing metabolic abnormalities than waiting until they are older....
Stress Predicts Development of Impaired Glucose Metabolism
Perceived stress and stressful life events predict the development of impaired glucose metabolism (IGM) over 5 years in previously normoglycemic individuals, according to results from the Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle study...
Study Find that People Who Stay Up Late Eat More, Eat Worse
Staying up late at night can lead to an additional two pounds a month weight gain....
Diabetes Drugs Linked to Weight Gain
Researchers have determined why a certain class of diabetes drugs leads to weight gain and have found that the molecular system involved (PPAR-gamma found in the brain) is also triggered by consumption of high-fat...
Study Helps Clarify Link between High-Fat Diet and Type 2 Diabetes
New research adds clarity to the connection that saturated fatty acids but not the unsaturated type can activate immune cells to produce an inflammatory protein, called interleukin-1beta....
