Dr. Joe Houmard briefly talks about the benefits of different types of aerobic exercise noting that part of a patient’s choice should be personal preference, and some might be due to factors such as the stress on joints that running can bring. Healso notes that although cycling is great exercise, …
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Dental Care Can Be an Important Diabetes Management Tool
A female patient on insulin, 67 years of age, required more and more insulin to manage her glucose levels. She was eating healthily, exercising, monitoring, and taking her insulin as prescribed. I asked her when she had last seen her dentist. She confessed that this was one part of her …
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American College of Physicians Free iOS/Android For Internal Medicine students, IM Essentials Flashcards offers over 1,100 flashcards across 11 categories and is the perfect app for studying on-the-go. Each card features a link to the relevant content within IM Essentials Online so you can reinforce your learning experience….
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There have been many conclusions drawn about the relationship between liraglutide and pancreatitis…
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Men who drink 2 to 3 cups of coffee a day are about 40 percent less likely to experience ED…
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A variant of the pulmonary arterial hypertension drug, Adempas, showed weight loss effects in mice…
Read More »Rapid Heart Rate Suggests a 59% Higher Risk of Diabetes
A potential new pre-clinical marker to determine a patient’s risk for diabetes… Seven previous studies totaling nearly 100,000 patients found a positive association between those with a rapid heart rate and an increased risk of diabetes as compared to individuals with slow heart rates. Researchers found this same association in …
Read More »Poor Disease Control Among Type 1 Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 1
Advanced technologies and treatments should be implemented to improve metabolic control and outcomes in type 1 diabetic patients… An analysis to assess current diabetes treatments performed by T1D Exchange researchers shows a need for improvement in outcomes across all age groups, most notably adolescents and young adults. More than 16,000 …
Read More »Skipping Meals Increases Abdominal Fat and Increases Diabetes Risk
Eating smaller meals is a way to lose weight, but skipping meals altogether has been linked to increased abdominal fat… “This does support the notion that small meals throughout the day can be helpful for weight loss, though that may not be practical for many people,” said Martha Belury, professor …
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