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One impact of the obesity epidemic is that people are now too fat to ride horses. A third of recreational riders are too heavy for their beasts of burden, and are giving the animals health problems including lameness and back pain. The rotundness of their riders may also be leading …

Norwegian researchers found adults with diabetes were two to three times as likely as those without the condition to die from CVD. However, diabetes patients who reported 1 to 2 hours of weekly exercise had a similar risk as inactive adults who didn‘t have diabetes, researchers wrote. "In conclusion, the …

After analyzing data from 1.8 million diabetes patients, researchers found that being male, living in poorer areas, and being white were each linked with a higher risk of lower limb amputation. White men in poorer areas who have diabetes should have their feet checked annually, receive education on foot ulcers …

Researchers reviewed 17 assessments of interventions by pharmacists acting as part of a team or alone. They found that pharmacists, with their accessibility and medication expertise, can make a positive contribution to outcomes of type 2 diabetes patients, reporting thatpharmacists’ interventions can help boost BG control and that pharmaceutical care …

Gaining weight at an early age could be a risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease later in life, according to a study. "From the results we’ve concluded that the longer an individual is overweight, the worse it is. So, we need to prevent individuals from becoming overweight and obese in …

Steven L. Driver, MD, MPH and colleagues conducted a two-by-two factorial study, randomly assigning 100 healthy adult employees or dependents to one of four weight loss groups: education (Live it!: with and without financial incentives); or education combined with a structured behavior modification plan (Lose it!: with and without financial …

 In the retrospective study, researchers from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examined data from more than 4,400 patients taking diabetes medications between 2000 and 2012. About 1,500 were taking GLP-1 medications and nearly 3,000 were not. Over an average 9-month follow-up period, patients taking GLP-1 medications were 41% less likely …

The study from 2004 to 2009 included 582 affiliated clinics that required physician groups to annually report quality outcomes, which are posted by group name on the website of the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality. Overall, practices in the Collaborative improved performance on many quality measures. Health Affairs, March 2013

Missing those notifications could delay needed care for patients, according to the 2600 physicians, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants surveyed. The findings suggest that missed results in EHRs might be related to information overload from alert notifications, electronic handoffs in care, and practitioner perceptions of poor EHR usability.JAMA Intern Med. …

In its final stages, the BioHub would mimic a pancreas and act as a home for transplanted islet cells, providing them with oxygen until they could establish their own blood supply.Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami