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Simple communication techniques make physicians more effective teachers.

Differences in academic performance between diabetic and non-diabetic children stem mostly from other factors, such as family income and behavioral problems.

It appears to lower diastolic blood pressure, improve glucose metabolism and may help prevent the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Just take three fewer bites of that burger and you will stop gaining weight. Or walk an extra mile every day or go up and down the stairs.

Cigarette smoking increases oxidant stress and thereby progressive renal injury in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Patients given an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin II-receptor antagonist, regardless of blood pressure, a aspirin 150 mg q.d. and a vitamin-mineral supplement that included chrome picolinate.

Maggot therapy is more successful in debriding nonhealing ulcers than is continued conventional care.

Oral insulin was safe, well tolerated, more effective than placebo, and as effective as subcutaneous regular insulin at controlling postprandial glycemia.

Those with insulin resistance or diabetes showed a two- to three-fold increase in large VLDL concentrations.

Supplementing the diet with the fatty acid conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may lead to weight control and disease management in diabetics.