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Letter from the Editor #745:

If you attended the recent AADE meeting in Orlando and stopped by to visit our booth, you would have had an opportunity to meet with the developer and provider of our Diabetes In Control PreDiabetes Screening Test Kit. This simple mail-away test has already helped hundreds of people determine that they …

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IDF Diabetes Atlas – Europe

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Diabetes is a huge and growing problem, and the costs to society are high and escalating. Europe has the highest prevalence of children with type 1 diabetes. The Top 5 countries for prevalence in Europe are: Turkey, Montenegro, Macedonia, TFYR, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. To find out more, follow …

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Editor’s Note, DCMS #204

I met a patient last Wednesday who had just turned 74 and has been living with type 1 diabetes for over 35 years. He was in fantastic physical condition. However, he had been referred to me because his glucose levels were becoming erratic. We went over his insulin use and …

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Handbook of Diabetes, 4th Edition, Excerpt #9: Management of Type 1 Diabetes

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Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   Modern management of type 1 diabetes comprises a package of measures including multiple daily injections for a more physiological insulin replacement; assessment of glycaemic control using blood glucose self-monitoring as well as clinic tests such as glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c); insulin dosage …

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