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Report by Jacqueline Vogt, PharmD Candidate, UF College of Pharmacy
More than one-third of adults and approximately 17% of children and adolescents...
Berries Help to Preserve Memory
Berries such as blueberries and strawberries are high in anthocyanidins, a type of flavonoid antioxidant, which has been shown in previous studies to improve cognition. Analyzed data collected in the Nurses' Health Study found that women who...
New York Plans a Ban on Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks
New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts. The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire menu of popular sugary drinks found in delis,...
Plain Water over Sodas Lowers Risk of Developing Diabetes
The results, based on more than 80,000 women followed for more than a decade, suggest that adding water to the sugary beverages a person drinks throughout the day won't make a difference, but replacing sweet drinks with water could help stave off...
Test Your Knowledge #628: Which statement is part of the key concepts for setting glycemic goals in children with type 1 diabetes?
Which statement is part of the key concepts for setting glycemic goals in children with type 1 diabetes?
The EmPower Diabetes Emergency Plan
ACE and Lilly Diabetes have launched the "EmPower Diabetes Emergency Plan" with comprehensive tips to help...
The EmPower Diabetes Emergency Plan
The EmPower Diabetes Emergency Plan
ACE and Lilly Diabetes have launched the "EmPower Diabetes...
Accu-Chek-Glooko
Accu-Chek-Glooko
Roche Diabetes Care and Glooko, Inc. join forces ...
AACE: New Team Approach Improves Diabetes Outcomes and Lowers Medication Costs
An integrated wellness team approach to diabetes care is helping patients lower their prescription costs and improve their condition....
AACE: Exercise Improves Vascular Reactivity for Pre-diabetic Patients
Pre-diabetic patients who engage in regular aerobic exercise improve their vascular reactivity to nearly normal levels, even if no weight loss is achieved....
AACE: Liraglutide Shows Positive Results in Head to Head Study
Patients more likely to reach A1c target at any given time during 26 weeks' treatment with liraglutide compared with both sitagliptin and exenatide....
AACE: Reality Weight-Loss TV Meets Medical Skeptics over Exercise
Medical community resists super intensive exercise-based weight-loss programs that shed pounds and reduce the risk for diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors....
AACE: Interim Gastric Band Results Show Remission of Diabetes
The remission rates of type 2 diabetes after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding are influenced by the duration of disease, according to interim results from the APEX study....
AACE: Prediction and Prevention of Type 1 Diabetes
Drugs aimed at halting the molecular destruction of beta cells are likely the next step in the quest to stop the progression of autoimmune type 1 diabetes....
AACE: The First Study to Show That an Ethnic Group Can Gain Benefits from a DPP-4 Compound
The dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor linagliptin (Tradjenta, Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly) is associated with significant improvements in glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in black patients with type 2 diabetes....
AACE: Elective Surgeries for Diabetes Patients Result in Longer Hospital Stays and Higher Costs
Patients with diabetes experience significantly higher rates of surgical and systemic complications, higher mortality and increased length of stay during hospitalization following 11 major elective procedures....
AACE: Exercise Saves Lean Body Mass after Gastric Bypass
Gastric bypass results in greater loss of lean muscle mass....
AACE: Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults often Misdiagnosed
Almost half of nonobese adult with poorly controlled diabetes have latent autoimmune diabetes that has been misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes....
AACE: Cardiometabolic Benefit with Investigational Obesity Drug
Two years of treatment with an investigational combination of phentermine plus topiramate (Qnexa, Vivus) resulted in improved cardiometabolic risk factors, in addition to weight loss....
Can Low-Carb Diets Cause Damage?
Are low-carb strategies OK for the kidneys of obese individuals without kidney disease?...
Letter from the Editor #628: AADE Highlights
Steve, Andrew, and I are back from the AACE meeting in Philly and have loaded this week's newsletter with the latest news from the meeting. We heard some great information on
