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May
21 2003 Issue 156
This
Week...
 Our
Publisher, Stephen Freed RPh, has prepared
a timely Special Feature: “Pre-Hypertension:
Another New Disease” Check out the New Blood Pressure
Guidelines that were released last week and what they will
mean to your patients with diabetes.
Fred
Pescatore, MD, MPH, CCN,
continues his series on “Diseases Linked to Obesity
and Insulin Resistance” with Nutritional Supplements:
What They Do And How I
Use Them
Kristina
Sandstedt, MS, Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Diabetes
Educator continues her Seated Exercise Series:
Building Lean Muscle With
Flexabands
If
you are going to the Annual AAPA meeting in New Orleans
this week, we want to meet you. Please stop by the Bayer
Diagnostics Ascencia Display.
The
Response to the results of our 10,000 Step Study has been
great. We have over 1000 doctors and educators who have
requested more information and are starting their own program.
Over 3000 patients so far, that’s 30 Million Steps
and 1 Million Calories Burned every day.
Consider it for your patients, 10,000
Step Program Information
 Last
week we published this photo from the 2002 ADA conference.
We had so many requests to enlarge the photo so you can
print it and put it in your office, that we have it again
this week.
Do
you have an Abstract or Study?? We want
to share diabetes practice information across different
disciplines. If you have prepared an abstract or poster
that deals with patient care, please send it to me at editor@diabetesincontrol.com
Check
out this weeks “Test Your Knowledge” question.
Click Here
Dave
Joffe, Editor-in-Chief
Consider making Diabetes
in Control Your home page.
1.
Battling Insulin Resistance in Elderly Obese People With
Type 2 Diabetes
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Here
2. Primary Care Physicians Need to Improve Lipid Testing
for Patients With Diabetes
Click
Here
3. Hypertension and Diabetes Cause Dramatic Increase in
Stroke Hospitalizations
Click
Here
4. Stem Cell Transplant Prevents Autoimmune Diabetes
Click
Here
5. CGM Aids Glycemic Control in Young Diabetics
Click
Here
6. Overweight America Costs $93 Billion/yr
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Here
7. 10,000 Steps A Day Burns 2000 Calories a Week and Reduces
Blood Glucose
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Here
8. Cell Changes May Explain Diabetes Risk in Elderly
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Here
9. Dietary Fats Do Not Promote Hyperlipidemia In Young Diabetics
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Here
10. Rofecoxib (Vioxx) Increases Systolic Blood Pressure
in Hypertensives with Type 2 Diabetes
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Here
11. Caring for Elderly Diabetics: New Guidelines
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Here
12. Low-Dose Eplerenone (Inspra™) Reduces Proteinuria
in Type 2 Diabetics Without Increasing Serum Potassium
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Here
13. Health Literacy Group Targets U.S. Diabetes Epidemic
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Here
14. Blood Sugar Control Overrated In the Development of
Heart Disease in Type 1’s
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Here
15. Beer Bellys Triple Death Rate for Men with Type 2 Diabetes
Click
Here
Product Update
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your Patients Check Their Own A1c Levels. It will motivate
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Don't
judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds
you plant."
Robert
Lewis Stevenson
Importing
Drugs from Canada is Growing But!…….Beware!
 Over
$600 million in Rx imports in just the last year. It’s
mostly through the mail...from Internet pharmacies.
The lower prices are due to Canadian gov't price
controls and favorable Canadian currency conversion
rates.
Most
Canadian provinces don't allow pharmacists to fill
Rxs from U.S. physicians...so Canadian physicians "rewrite" them.
U.S. law says importation is illegal...but most
patients have no idea they're breaking the law. Read More |
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It
automatically regulates the blood-glucose levels in diabetic patients.–
Once-a-day, self-regulating insulin delivery for diabetics. Technology
uses new a kind of biodegradable polymer to produce stimuli-responsive
nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery. 
In
this first of a special three-part series,
Smith covers the most important nutrient supplements for those with diabetes
or prediabetes. 
Visit
Sherri Shafer's Archives 
Overweight America Costs $93 Billion/yr 
Diabetes
Education Abstracts From IDF (International Diabetes Federation)
Evan
D. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D 
Check
out Dr. Bernsteins Corner for Insights for Controlling Blood Sugars
Why
Focusing On Intensive Glucose