A new study has found that alcohol does not appear to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes.
Read More »Issue 113 Item 16 Statin Study May Encourage Couch Potatoes to Remain Spuds
Dietary experts worry that findings may encourage couch potatoes to stay put.
Read More »Issue 112 Item 11 New Test Predicts Which Type 2’s Will Become Type 1’s Within 5
Islet antibody testing could prevent complications by initiating insulin treatment much earlier.
Read More »Issue 113 Item 15 Wider Guidelines Urged for Statins*
Prescribing statins for people with type 2 diabetes irregardless of cholesterol levels. These findings should tear up the rule-book on statin prescribing,” says Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet. “This marks a major conceptual shift in our understanding of the prevention of heart disease.”
Read More »Issue 112 Item 10 Americans Getting Fatter Faster
Overall, 26 percent of U.S. men and 28 percent of U.S. women already are obese by about age 36, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study of adult weight gain among different ethnic groups, races and sexes.
Read More »Issue 113 Item 14 How Self Help Improves Diabetes
The benefits of a free choice, but sensible, diet combined with intense exercise are demonstrated in a group with diabetes.
Read More »Issue 112 Item 9 UK Diabetes Targets Too Aggressive?
New targets set for diabetes treatment in Britain’s National Health Service may be too strict to be practical, an article in Friday’s British Medical Journal warns.
Read More »Issue 113 Item 13 Modifiable Risks For The Development of Diabetic Nephropathy I
The individual risk of progression to microalbuminuria ranged from roughly 10% in patients with no risk markers to 70% in patients with all four risk markers.
Read More »Issue 112 Item 8 Diabetics Must Control Hypertension
ABC’s of controlling hypertension in people with diabetes.
Read More »Issue 113 Item 12 Happily Married Diabetics Have Better Control
Healthcare workers should pay attention to the social and relationship context of their patients.
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