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Chair Exercises for Your Patients

The road to exercise might begin with the first step, but for people with neuropathy (nerve damage), foot complications, balance issues, or lack of mobility, steps in general might be hard to take. You can still get a good workout in your chair and that’s vital, says LeeAnn Langdon, an …

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Question #806

Test Your Knowledge

If diabetes were a country how big would it be? Federal Assistant Health Minister Ken Wyatt from the IDF says that “if diabetes diagnosed and undiagnosed was a country, it would be the ___th largest country in the world.” The ten countries with the largest population in the world are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia and Japan. If those with diagnosed diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes were a country, which country’s population would it be closest to? Follow the link to answer!

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November 7, 2015

Oftentimes when an insulin using patient is admitted to the hospital they are kept on the same insulin product and regimen they arrived with. For many patients this works well but for those using mixed insulin there appears to be an increased incidence of hypoglycemia. This could be because of …

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