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Research Finds That Diabetes Disease-Management Programs Improve Quality of Care; But Patients’ Health Outcomes Another Story August 2006 – With diabetes disease-management programs becoming more commonly used among physician groups, the question arises: Just how effective are they at improving patient care? The answer, according to UCLA researchers, is that …

July 2006 : Common variants in three genes have been found to predict development of type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, based on a study of more than 7,000 Swedes followed for an average of 22 years, according to a report presented at the American Diabetes …

July 2006 : A 20-year study of women in the Nurses? Health Study has shown that Type 2 diabetes is associated with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), the most common form of glaucoma, accounting for about 60 to 70% of all glaucomas. The study is published in the July issue …

July 2006 : Women who are non-smokers, exercise regularly, have a healthy diet, including moderate alcohol consumption, and otherwise live a healthy lifestyle may have a reduced risk of stroke, according to a report in the July 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

July 2006 – Twelve years ago, scientists discovered leptin?the now-famous hormone that controls appetite, burns calories and performs other crucial physiological activities as well. But the precise mechanism(s) by which leptin carries out these metabolic tasks is still controversial. Now, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva …

July 2006 – A few years ago public health researchers linked big-city attributes ? like safety concerns and too few recreational facilities ? to obesity. But residents of rural communities say their small towns also present barriers to staying active and maintaining a normal weight, according to a new study.

July 2006 – University of Utah researchers have taken a potentially powerful new therapy for treating diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and other illnesses out of the test tube and into animals by demonstrating it restores nerve and blood vessel growth in mice.

June 2006 ? Black women, even if their weight is normal, may be at increased risk for insulin resistance, a condition associated with diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart vessel disease, according to new research by Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

June 2006: Having a relatively high blood pressure level at night may increase the risk for congestive heart failure, according to a study in the June 28 issue of JAMA.

Bethesda, MD ? A recent study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry confirms that mutations in an enzyme called glutamate dehydrogenase can cause congenital hyperinsulinism. The research appeared as the “Paper of the Week” in the June 2 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry …