Prevention

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Moderate intensity physical activity said to decrease further complications during labor… Obesity is strongly correlated with gestational diabetes, which affects 2-18% of all pregnancies worldwide. Gestational diabetes and obesity are both independently correlated with adverse maternal and neonatal effects. Maternal overweight and gestational diabetes can increase the chance of the …

Help your patients prevent type 2 diabetes. Your patients who have prediabetes or are at risk for type 2 diabetes could benefit from the National Diabetes Prevention Program. Participants work with lifestyle coaches in a group setting to lose 5%-7% of their body weight and increase physical activity to at …

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we wrap up this short series on DME with a case study on how ranibizumab helped one patient who had waited too long for her regular exam, and Dr. Chous gives us a short summary of ways to prevent both DME and the vision loss associated …

In the DPP and DPP-OS trials, diabetes was prevented or delayed with metformin or ILS when directed at weight loss and increased physical activity… Previous randomized clinical trials such as the Diabetes Prevention Program and the long-term follow-up trial, the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes study, evaluated metformin and an intensive …

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we cover topics including: Importance of Early Treatment; What Anti-VEGF is Best for DME; Intravitreal Steroid Implants; and "Does Good Blood Glucose Control Even Matter Once We Start Using anti-VEGF Agents for DR/DME?"…. To download this set of Homerun Slides in PowerPoint format (.ppt) just use …

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we delve further into the treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema (DME). We look at Macular Laser Therapy and why, although it can be very effective, it isn’t necessarily the best solution available today. Now, with new drugs on the market such as Avastin, Lucentis, and Eylea, …

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we begin a new series, courtesy of Dr. Paul Chous, MA, OD, FAAO, focused on Diabetic Macular Edema (DME). With this first set of slides, we review what DME is, its symptoms, risk factors, relationship with high blood sugars, some medications, and some of the …

Healthy behaviors including weight control, moderate physical activity, and minimizing TV watching can avert up to 73% of CHD cases among women over 20 years… Overall mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United States have declined in recent decades, but the rate has plateaued among younger women. …

As Americans face growing health and financial burdens from preventable, non-communicable diseases such as CV disease, diabetes and cancers, a new study shows employers have a unique opportunity to improve employees’ health…. Dr. Katherine Tryon and Dr. Derek Yach from the Vitality Institute led the study, which involved a first-of-its-kind …