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Quality of care for patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus-a long-term comparison of two quality improvement programs.

Screening for diabetic retinopathy: a cause for concern in people who drive.

Many times these drugs are combined so patients will get gemfibrozil (Lopid, etc) to lower triglycerides and increase HDL. But gemfibrozil inhibits the CYP450 enzyme that metabolizes Avandia which will boost Avandia levels which, increases Avandia’s glucose lowering effects. This can lead to hypoglycemia in patients who use Avandia along …

Having a pharmacist on the rounding team of a general medical unit reduced adverse drug events (ADEs) by 78%.

A 20-year follow-up of the Finnish Twin Cohort Study shows the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and the risk for diabetes.

Testing the Accelerator Hypothesis: The relationship between body mass and age at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.

Will young adult patients with diabetes still develop renal involvement during the first 10 years of diabetes duration, even with good control, the question answered from The Diabetes Incidence Study in Sweden.

Impaired glucose tolerance a major factor, but not so for impaired fasting glucose.

Having diabetes along with high blood pressure dramatically raises the risk of brain lesions known as “silent strokes.”

Diabetes can be prevented even with a strong family history of diabetes